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Hurt is a Alternative Metal / Nu Metal band from United States. They are signed to Capitol Records.
Origin
Lead singer/violinist/guitarist/arranger J. Loren Wince grew up in the backwoods of Culpeper, VA. His parents exposed him to gospel and classical music, but rock and roll was banned.
Evan Johns was the son of rock producer/engineer Andy Johns (Led Zeppelin, Rolling Stones, Van Halen), he was raised in Southern California and began playing drums early on.
J. Loren discoverd rock and roll and began recording. Evan heard an early demo through an associate of his father, and soon joined him in Hurt, along with bassist Josh Ansley and guitarist Paul Spatola.
Vol. 1
"Rapture," the lead single, examines the twisted logic that religious zeal can engender, leading to a chilling outcome for the young couple portrayed. A guitar strums ominously, then is joined by a chugging rhythm section that propels the song forward to its fatalistic conclusion while Wince's vocals slide up and down an emotional Richter scale, matter-of-fact delivery yielding to fearsome growl and ebbing to a hushed near-whisper. Musically, it's a dizzying display of ying and yang, as is Vol. 1 as a whole. Delicate guitar work and serene symphonic passages swirl into a fury of raw, explosive rock and guttural vocals and circle round to a fragile beauty that is then quickly crushed. Vol. 1's lush string arrangements may call to mind a time when arena bands incorporated classical influences to bombastic effect - but Hurt, with its irregular time signatures and post-industrial sensibility, is not out to create Bic-lighter anthems but to plumb the depths of a single shattered soul.
Their Sound
The LP veers between whispering and roaring, melody and brutality, crushing power chords and gentle acoustic moments. The convergence of those extremes—delivered in irregular time signature with orchestration, no less—define the “Hurt” sound. Yet just when it seems that it’s all thunder and lightning, eight songs into the album the lighthearted “Danse Russe” comes soaring in like a break in the clouds, its cheerful melody and gentle acoustic guitars displaying a drastically different side of the band.
Traces of Tool, Nirvana, and mid-period Metallica flicker throughout the album, but Hurt have created a remarkably individual sound for a debut. It is mainstream enough to fit in on rock radio, yet unusual and edgy enough to appeal to the fringes—and those extremes are echoed in the band’s two core members.
They have been clasified as a fusion of Art Rock, Grunge, Nu Metal, Prog Rock, and Emo.
Members
Discography
- Shallow
- Rapture
- Overdose
- Falls Apart
- Forever
- Losing
- Unkind
- Danse Russe
- Dirty
- Cold Inside
- House Carpenter
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