1. Tragedy is a crus… Read Full Bio ↴There are at least five artists with this name:
1. Tragedy is a crust band, originally from Memphis, Tennessee, but currently residing in Portland, Oregon. The band formed in 1999 and was born from the ashes of influential and legendary sludge/crust band His Hero is Gone. With this new band, 3/4 of the aforementioned His Hero Is Gone took crust towards a less metallic direction and added lots of melody to their overall sound. Additionally, during the band's final shows, they often played several future Tragedy songs that ended up being released as part of the debut.
The reason for their chosen name is revealed on the closing track "No Words" from "Vengeance": "Telling tales of tragedies for which we find no words. For which there are no words". Humanity is a sad and pathetic tragedy.
Tragedy's music is characterized by its unrelenting, heavy crust punk sound and d-beat galloping, often punctuated by melodic interludes and downshifts in tempo. The use of dual male vocals should also be noted. They are in the form of a shouted hardcore bark provided by their bassist/co-vocalist Billy Davis and crust-styled harsh vocals provided by guitarist/lead vocalist Todd Burdette. Billy's crass delivery (Very inspired by Cal from Discharge and his infamous off-key hardcore bark) is the perfect contrast to Todd's guttural delivery.
The band remains strongly aware of its roots but often takes the genre in newer, more innovative directions, pioneering a new breed of crust punk along with close friends and contemporaries From Ashes Rise, as well other bands residing in Portland and throughout the world. (See: Ekkaia, Fall of Efrafa, Ictus, Madame Germen, Alpinist, Downfall of Gaia and Remains of the Day).
Though most of these bands maintain a progressive attitude as to the nature of their sound (Remains of the Day actually includes a violinist among its members and early Fall of Efrafa was very cello-driven), there is a staunch refusal to separate themselves categorically from their crust punk provenances. Tragedy draw from many various early hardcore and crust punk bands as influences, most prominently in the vein of d-beat, ranging from Discharge themselves to Japanese d-beat groups such as Deathside and kängpunk.
They are often cited as originators of what was known to become "neocrust" and most notably, they are specifically credited with bringing melody into crust and giving the subgenre its signature epic and emotional leads in nature with heavy use of pick slides to signal the transition into those sections as well as utilising dual vocals. Their riffing style was derived from the aforementioned His Hero Is Gone. This became the basis for this hardcore sub-genre; a style that is so permeated in the crust scene nowadays as well as reached and influenced many bands throughout the years. Their debut album, Tragedy, had some acoustic elements and experimental interludes, this is something else from which they differed with His Hero Is Gone, aside from their melody sense. Many bands also took cues from this.
Tragedy's first and subsequent albums have been met with critical acclaim within the DIY hardcore community, and many see the band as at the forefront of a modern hardcore renaissance of sorts. Nevertheless, despite the band's cult following and near celebrity status among underground hardcore circles, they remain largely mysterious, refusing thus far to utilize the internet and including minimal information in album inserts.
Their 2012 record entitled "Darker Days Ahead" was met with some controversy in the hardcore scene as the album was a departure from their traditional sound into a more metallic (still not in the same sense as HHIG) and Swedish old school death metal/stenchcore-styled direction that somehow still kept their melodic sensibilities; which at the time, did not sit well with some fans. However, the record has since then carved out a niche of its own as a Tragedy album. Albeit their latest EP, "Fury", forwent these aspects. Therefore, they regressed to their previous/original style.
They are melodic and offer a different dimension of "emotional" because Todd is suffering less now, he feels more realised. Even though he suffers with others' suffering. They all do, that is empathy. Tragedy is the sound of all of them being free whilst watching the rest of the world burn for schemers that do not care about them. People stay in their hole because they like it, it is easier and do not know any better.
What happened to His Hero Is Gone/Tragedy members has happened before, still happens and will keep happening to others and we allow it. Tragedy is the sound of being free and feeling deeply sorry for everyone else still in Hell. Sorrow. Lamenting. A Terminal Spirit Disease. "All Hell is here".
Tragedy are still angry and furious as their latest EP simply states. They still have much to say. They will die mad at everything and everyone. Someone else brave enough will take their place. They won the war within themselves and inspired a new movement in hardcore. To them, it is a Tragedy people cannot fight like they did and still do. "Peace is a privilege reserved for those who can afford not to fight" (...) "The end... the ending fight".
"Never knowing silence. Never knowing peace".
2. Tragedy was a Hollywood band formed in 1993. Two members of the band would stick together through many line-up changes, they were Jamie Shane on vocals, and Traci Michaelz (RIP)on drums....
At different time's the lineup would feature members of the Hollywood bands Never On Sunday, Willow Wisp, and God Zoo. This strong knit community of musicians would form a very tight bond,...a family, a posse, whatever you want to call it, if you messed with one you had to go through all...In 1994 Tragedy released the 3 song EP Tragedy in L.A.
3. Tragedy is a heavy metal tribute to the Bee Gees, based in the Tri-State area.
4. Tragedy (also Trazedy, トラジェディー) is a Japanese indie visual kei band formed in 2004 and disbanded in 2006. Included the bassist and support drummer of kanuak～カナック～, 26 (Niro) and Yasu.
5. Tragedy is an American Hip-Hop artist from Baltimore, Maryland on the DarkSide Records label.
Vengeance
Tragedy Lyrics
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Brought us with a full schedule of television and revised history classes that had us believing this is "just the way it is"
You came for us with grins and smiles,systematic persuasion and coercion that we might have become robotss if it weren't for
Our undying hatred, our unyielding drive, for reprisal, for retribution, for retaliation, for revenge
We come for you in life, until death.
Revenge, revenge...
The lyrics of Tragedy's song "Vengeance" focus on the discontent and anger felt by those who feel oppressed by society and its institutions. The song criticizes the way society manipulates its citizens into conforming to certain ideals and values, forcing them into predetermined boxes that don't necessarily align with their true selves. The lines "You came for us at birth with your proven techniques for molding model citizens, forced us into compartments where we didn't fit in" highlight the systematic methods by which society tries to shape individuals into conforming members.
Tragedy goes on to criticize the way society controls what individuals consume in terms of media and education, manipulating the facts and revising history to suit its own narrative. This is highlighted in the line "Brought us with a full schedule of television and revised history classes that had us believing this is 'just the way it is'". In response to all these manipulations, Tragedy brings in the idea of revenge - a desire to take back control and strike back against those who have wronged him. The lines "Our undying hatred, our unyielding drive, for reprisal, for retribution, for retaliation, for revenge" express the anger and desire for retribution felt by those who feel oppressed by society.
Overall, "Vengeance" is a powerful song that explores themes of oppression and the desire for retribution. It encourages listeners to challenge the status quo and fight back against those who try to manipulate and control them.
Line by Line Meaning
You came for us at birth with your proven techniques for molding model citizens, forced us into compartments where we didn't fit in
You began manipulating us as soon as we were born, using methods that you believed would create perfect conformist citizens, which caused us to be placed in categories that we didn't belong to.
Brought us with a full schedule of television and revised history classes that had us believing this is "just the way it is"
You inundated us with nonstop television and history classes that purposely left out certain facts, which made us believe that the world is just the way it's always been.
You came for us with grins and smiles,systematic persuasion and coercion that we might have become robots if it weren't for
You used a mix of manipulative and forceful tactics coupled with feigned kindness to try and turn us into emotionless robots, but fortunately...
Our undying hatred, our unyielding drive, for reprisal, for retribution, for retaliation, for revenge
...our deep-seated and unwavering feelings of anger and determination for payback, for justice, for standing up for ourselves, for getting even with those who wronged us, for seeking revenge remained intact.
The hunt is on, the war is on
We are now actively seeking out and hunting down our enemies and the battle has begun.
We come for you in life, until death.
We will pursue and harm you for as long as we live, until one of us succumbs.
Revenge, revenge...
Our only goal is to avenge ourselves and seek retaliation, it's all we care about.
Contributed by Maria Y. Suggest a correction in the comments below.
Michael Scott-Joynt
0:00 Conflicting Ideas
4:34 A Call To Arms
7:23 Vengeance
10:58 Recurring Nightmare
12:30 Beginning of the End
15:51 The Lure
19:07 Night Falls
22:29 The Day After
26:01 War Within Us
28:37 Revengeance
30:46 To The Dogs
34:38 No Words
happy rushmore
noise but clean, raw & technical, aggressive & melodical.. this album has everything good in it in right quantity. 10/10
Gero 30
This isnt noise
Listen to hanatarash
We Die Alone
if you want to survive an apocalypse, you need all of their albums.
warship satin
@black spring why are you alive
Moises Martinez
@Ernst Starkhört apocalypse is just another part of life
Moises Martinez
We are here now
andrea lb
If you want to START an apocalypse you need all their albums! Ahaa
Aeden Matthews
@Ernst Starkhört i'm not an ethnocentrist so i have no receptivity to that line of thinking. it's also not punk rock and i don't think it has a place here
Michael Scott-Joynt
0:00 Conflicting Ideas
4:34 A Call To Arms
7:23 Vengeance
10:58 Recurring Nightmare
12:30 Beginning of the End
15:51 The Lure
19:07 Night Falls
22:29 The Day After
26:01 War Within Us
28:37 Revengeance
30:46 To The Dogs
34:38 No Words
Gage Phipps
Just finished the Void lp , saw this up next and figured I’d give it a listen. What an awesome find. Heavy as hell but still melodic. I don’t even know how you do that successfully, but these guys have it down .