Out Cold formed in late 1989 in Dracut, Massachusetts, a nondescript ‘burb on the New Hampshire border some 30 miles north of Boston. The original line up was Kevin (vocals), Fred (guitar), Mark (bass), and John (drums). Heavily influenced by the punk and hardcore bands of the late-’70s/early-’80s, we saw all our favorite groups either break up or “progress” into shitsville. It was with this distaste for the contemporary music scene that we formed the band. Complete misfits in a scene comprised almost exclusively of thrash metal and second-rate indie/grunge, we released our first album and some singles and went largely unnoticed. Kevin left in 1994. Mark moved to vocals and a permanent bass player wasn’t found until after we recorded our second album, the first of a string released by Kangaroo Records in the Netherlands. Many line-up changes were endured in the following years, the most significant of which was the departure of Fred in 1997. The band actually broke up at this point and the two remaining founding members, Mark & John, started a new band called Alien Blood Transfusion. Shortly after, however, Kangaroo Records asked us to do a final tour in Europe. We quickly enlisted new members and this ended up resuscitating the band. Since that time we have returned to tour Europe several times, as well as the west coast, Scandinavia, Russia, and Japan. 2005 saw the release of our 6th studio album.
Although Marc Tobio (aka Marc God of Cancerous Growth fame) is listed as bass, he doesn’t actually appear on this recording. He was in the band for a short time prior to the recording, but left soon before. The bass is actually played by Mark Sheehan. People often ask what the cover is supposed to be. It is a picture of William Burroughs, the author, presiding over a pile of books, wearily gesturing. Although it was never credited on the album, the cover was rendered by Andrew Szava-Kovats (sorry Andy!) There is one outtake from this recording session: a song we intended for a compilation that we played wrong (we didn’t play the correct amount of measures on the verses), but didn’t realize until Mark went to lay down the vocal track. By then it was too late to fix it and we just scrapped it. It was never re-recorded.
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