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Genre: Hardcore / Punk / Thrash
Location Detroit, US
Profile Views: 50600
Last Login: 5/7/2009
Member Since 7/12/2004
Website www.downpeninsula.com
Record Label Seventh Rule
Type of Label Indie
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Bio
...... .. .. .. .. .... FROM ALTERNATIVE PRESS: 2006: ............ ...... .. .... .. .. .... .. .......... .. .. .. .. .... .. .. .. .. .. .. ..$13.00 ppd.(USA).. ..$14.00 ppd.(Can/Mex).. ..$15.00 ppd.(Eur/Asia) airmail.. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. ........ .. .. .. .. .. .. ...... ......Thoughts Of Ionesco.. - .... ....A Skin Historic - DIGITAL-ONLY RESISSUE.... .... $5.99 At .......... .. .. ...... ......Thoughts Of Ionesco.. - And Then There Was Motion - DIGITAL-ONLY RESISSUE.... .... $7.92 At .......... ........ .. .. .. .. .. .. ...... ......Thoughts Of Ionesco.. - The Triptych Session- DIGITAL-ONLY RESISSUE.... .... $7.99 At .......... .. .. .. .. .. ..WORDS/INFO..:.... "TOI used music as existential combustion to drag the listener's soul through the shaodw of death with role models like Joy Division, Black Fag, and Swans (all in spirit more than sound). They gathered sand in their teeth, salt in their wounds, with pulsating blinding migraines and thirst cracking their throats, yet they still stood and still defied." ....Terrorizer Magazine, 2006.. .."TOI's sound was forged out of equal parts punk rock, sludge and free jazz, and often sounded as if it could have been a distant evolution of Black Flag or Bad Brains had either given in to their most primal aggression. There has never been a band that sounded quite like this and there likely never will be again.....Lambgoat, 2006.... "It’s kind of beautiful that mental and chemical problems eventually destroyed the band, and that their “career” was built on failure, negativity and violence; anything less would’ve been posing."....Decible Magazine, 2006...."Some of the most intense fucking hardcore I've ever heard... truth."....Sputnik Music Review, 2007...."I fear I might actually kill someone (when listening to TOI)"....Real Detroit Weekly, 2006...."Maniacal and brilliant"....All Music Guide, 2006...."An ultimate realization of pain-through-sound." ....Alternative Press, 1997. ...."The most underrated and under-appreciated band in modern hardcore. Thoughts of Ionesco have always remained somewhat inaccessible when they should have been huge.".... Superhero Magazine, 1999...."I had the fortune of seeing TOI live twice during their tumultuous existence and they were amazing and mind bending both times."....Punk Planet, 2005...."This reccord (..The Triptych Session..) is THE motherfucker!!!"....Second Nature Magazine, 1997...."A lot of people will breathe easier now that Thoughts of Ionesco are dead and gone, but they scorched a bittersweet scar on music that will never be forgotten."....Slap Magazine, 2001.. ...."Possibly one of the most devastating, derranged, and challenging angst-bands ever. "A Skin Historic" is an art-core mindfuck." ....SPIN Magazine, 1998...."One of the most inredibly raw and emotionally painful records I've ever had the pleasure of listening to.".... Collective Magazine UK, 2001......"It's a wild ride, you got your ears on?"...... Metro Times, 1998....Unreleased version of .. "Blamesday" 1997 .... ....TOI VINYL/BACK CATALOG INFO:...... You can buy the .. Thoughts of Ionesco/Heads Will Roll split 7".. online.....Buy the 1999 TOI album .. "For Detroit, From Addiction"....Buy the 1997 Cromwell split 7"..HERE.... Everything else is long out of circulation, try Ebay. -
Members
Members of Thoughts of Ionesco have gone on to play in: .. The Holy Fire.., ..Paradise,.... The Alkaline Trio.., and ..Leaving Rouge... -
Influences
Black Flag, early Swans, Albert Ayler, Henry Miller, Saccharine Trust, Dazzling Killmen, Universal Order of Armageddon, the Stooges, Craw, thrash metal. -
Sounds Like
"about as close as you can get to rage in a bottle" ..Eptitonic Reviews, 1999....Bands TOI played with: Coalesce, Converge, Brutal Truth, Damnation AD, His Hero is Gone, Kiss it Goodbye, Assuck, Anal Cunt, Bloodlet, Nile, Fireside, Acrid, Botch, Nineironspitfire, Isis, etc.
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Thoughts of Ionesco- Kick Out the Jams (w/ Tim Pak)
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"TOI used music as existential combustion to drag the listener's soul through the shaodw of death with role models like Joy Division, Black Fag, and Swans (all in spirit more than sound). They gathered sand in their teeth, salt in their wounds, with pulsating blinding migraines and thirst cracking their throats, yet they still stood and still defied."
Terrorizer Magazine, 2006
"TOI's sound was forged out of equal parts punk rock, sludge and free jazz, and often sounded as if it could have been a distant evolution of Black Flag or Bad Brains had either given in to their most primal aggression. There has never been a band that sounded quite like this and there likely never will be again.
Lambgoat, 2006
"It’s kind of beautiful that mental and chemical problems eventually destroyed the band, and that their “career” was built on failure, negativity and violence; anything less would’ve been posing."
Decible Magazine, 2006
"Some of the most intense fucking hardcore I've ever heard... truth."
Sputnik Music Review, 2007
"I fear I might actually kill someone (when listening to TOI)"
Real Detroit Weekly, 2006
"Maniacal and brilliant"
All Music Guide, 2006
"An ultimate realization of pain-through-sound."
Alternative Press, 1997. "The most underrated and under-appreciated band in modern hardcore. Thoughts of Ionesco have always remained somewhat inaccessible when they should have been huge."
Superhero Magazine, 1999
"I had the fortune of seeing TOI live twice during their tumultuous existence and they were amazing and mind bending both times."
Punk Planet, 2005
"This reccord (The Triptych Session) is THE motherfucker!!!"
Second Nature Magazine, 1997"A lot of people will breathe easier now that Thoughts of Ionesco are dead and gone, but they scorched a bittersweet scar on music that will never be forgotten."
Slap Magazine, 2001 ..
"Possibly one of the most devastating, derranged, and challenging angst-bands ever. "A Skin Historic" is an art-core mindfuck."
SPIN Magazine, 1998
"One of the most inredibly raw and emotionally painful records I've ever had the pleasure of listening to."
Collective Magazine UK, 2001
.."It's a wild ride, you got your ears on?"
.. Metro Times, 1998
Unreleased version of "Blamesday" 1997
TOI VINYL/BACK CATALOG INFO:
You can buy the Thoughts of Ionesco/Heads Will Roll split 7" online.
Buy the 1999 TOI album "For Detroit, From Addiction" Buy the 1997 Cromwell split 7"HERE
Everything else is long out of circulation, try Ebay.
Member Since:
July 12, 2004Members:
Members of Thoughts of Ionesco have gone on to play in: The Holy Fire, Paradise, The Alkaline Trio, and Leaving Rouge.Influences:
Black Flag, early Swans, Albert Ayler, Henry Miller, Saccharine Trust, Dazzling Killmen, Universal Order of Armageddon, the Stooges, Craw, thrash metal.Sounds Like:
"about as close as you can get to rage in a bottle" Eptitonic Reviews, 1999Bands TOI played with: Coalesce, Converge, Brutal Truth, Damnation AD, His Hero is Gone, Kiss it Goodbye, Assuck, Anal Cunt, Bloodlet, Nile, Fireside, Acrid, Botch, Nineironspitfire, Isis, etc.























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