#28: The Flaming Tsunamis

If you really loved me, let me eat your brains

Up next are The Flaming Tsunamis, who announced their break up and final album back in 2008, but have still yet to do either of those items

Myspace says: The Flaming Tsunamis were the youthful leaders of a local ska-punk revival that rose when the corpse of the regional ska scene was hardly cold. But in just a few short years, they’ve grown, and so has their initial audience and their sound, so that they’ve become something altogether heavier, darker, artier. Abstracted farther and farther from their original template, the Tsunamis’ skankin’ breaks surprise when they do show up, embedded as they are in progressive hardcore and metalcore mayhem. The fruits of their labor, of creative restlessness and years of heavy touring, are evident in their most recent full-length, last year’s punishing, politicized, dynamically schizoid Fear Everything (Kill Normal Records), and in their live show, in which they’re a freaky machine of energy and precision.
-Brian LaRue, New Haven Advoate

Discovery: Focus the Fury (early 2000's)

Zombies Vs. Robots (2004)

Fear Everything (2006)

Favorite Songs: 10. Purgatory Chasm

9. Opus

8. Zombies vs. Robots

7. Fear Everything

6. By Force

5. Satan Vs. The United States of America

4. Refuse to Die

3. Corpse Disposal for Dummies

2. Dead Girlfriends Can't Break Up With You

1. Birdwatching and Vice Versa

Unsure on years active

Seen Live: 5 times (Montclair, NJ x2. North Caldwell, NJ x2. West Long Branch, NJ)

TFT are so high up for their lives shows more than their music (which is pretty kick ass). They're probably so high due to their NJ "farewell" show last summer in West Long Branch. They were an hour late and had a short set, but still it was great, the whole NJ scene came out to support them. They will be missed, and their final album is highly anticipated by me.

Up Next: The first band to be featured on the "favorite albums" countdown of last summer