Life of Agony

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Life of Agony is a metal band from Brooklyn, NY who are known to incorporate hardcore and thrash elements into their music. However, some of their music is acoustic. They formed in 1989 after Keith Caputo was looking for musicians to form a rock band, he eventually recruited his cousin, Joey Z on guitar and long-time friend Alan Robert on bass. Type O Negative’s drummer Sal Abruscato was hired to record albums ‘River Runs Red’ and ‘Ugly’ on drums. He re-joined the band when they reformed in 2003.

After releasing two albums with this line-up, Sal left due to musical differences, and recruited a drummer for the recording/touring of ‘Soul Searching Sun.’ Keith Caputo felt that the band’s original spirit had left the band, and decided to quit in 1997. After a few tours with several vocalists, including Whitfield Crane, the singer from Ugly Kid Joe, the band officially disbanded in 1999.

In 2003, the band reunited with their original line-up and played two sold-out shows before their home-town crowd, recieving great reception. In 2004, they hit the studio to record ‘Broken Valley’ which was released later that year. They are currently writing new material for their next CD which is due out soon.

1	Weeds	237
2	Love to Let You Down full track	205
3	River Runs Red	196
4	Through and Through	165
5	This Time	161
6	Underground	130
7	Let's Pretend	125
8	Wicked Ways full track	117
9	Last Cigarette	101
10	The Day He Died full track	90
11	My Mind Is Dangerous	88
12	Words and Music	87
13	Bad Seed	85
14	Other Side of the River	83
14	The Calm That Disturbs You	83

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SexWithMinors wrote:
10 days ago

the begining of the artist description makes em sound so terrible.

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tjm670 wrote:
29 days ago

If you don't walk with me I will walk alone

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Shaunography wrote:
last month

'Unstable'... what an underrated song

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rayluka wrote:
last month

RRR is really great. One of my favourite albums ever.

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_lotte wrote:
last month

WTF?! LOA and Volbeat are so different! the only thing that sounds a bit similar to me is the voice. Though I love Keith's voice so much more. Volbeat is an amazing and talented band too, but hey Volbeat < Life of Agony

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Aki_A wrote:
last month

I wouldn't say they are THAT different. People often compare many other bands which have a lot less in common.

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Shaunography wrote:
June 2008

I agree with Krokantx ;)

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Krokantx wrote:
June 2008

@justin: VOLBEAT = VOLBEAT and LOA = LOA!! very stupid comment! you should listen to the music and you would realize that this two bands are very different! this compare makes me agry!

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JustinXXX wrote:
June 2008

Volbeat > Life Of Agony

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Shaunography wrote:
June 2008

It sucks that the greatest hits is in the top albums

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See27 wrote:
June 2008

River Runs Red and Ugly are both great. Was excited when 'SOul', heard it, tried to like it but really wasnt into it at all.. stopped paying attention after that..

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Krokantx wrote:
June 2008

damn great band!!!

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Barracuda4Surf wrote:
May 2008

Redemption Song is great!!

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FraHelvete wrote:
May 2008

Check them out on their probably last tour.

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verisof wrote:
April 2008

As I see it, Broken Valley has nothing to do with metal..

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h1dd3n5 wrote:
April 2008

Love to Let You Down <333

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pastardhinovic wrote:
March 2008

Ugly is really a Great Album !

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bernardo79 wrote:
March 2008

a great band ....

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tim_y wrote:
March 2008

MAYBE IM JUST A BAD SEED \m/

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tim_y wrote:
March 2008

Immense. It upsets me that no one I know knows or can appreciate them.

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