Behind Closed Doors - Exit Lines: The Brief History

Temporary Residence - TRR220LP

Behind Closed Doors were a young hardcore band from Baltimore, MD. As the title of this collection suggests, their tenure was all too brief. Formed in 1996 and disbanded by 1998, Behind Closed Doors released a scarce, minimally packaged 12" on the historic punk imprint, Vermin Scum (Moss Icon, Born Against, Universal Order of Armageddon) and quickly became renowned in the Baltimore/DC region for their unusually long, dynamic songs and alarmingly unhinged live shows. Bridging the crazed emotions of early screamo bands like Heroin and Angel Hair, the thoughtful complexity of Unwound, and the sinister heaviness of His Hero Is Gone, Behind Closed Doors was a huge bolt of lightning in a very tiny bottle. They broke up while in the process of writing what would have been their debut full-length for Temporary Residence in 1998, leaving behind a recorded legacy of what they were, and a blueprint of what they could've been.

Side A:
Red Is The Word, Kill Is The Verb
Dynamite Next Time!
I Haven't Yet Met A Lady But You Sure As Hell Met A Cowboy

Side B:
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