Lynchpin.

Raw and heavy melodic hardcore with some metal influenced guitar work and breakdowns. Four out of five being teenagers in high school when they formed in 1994. They were blessed with grown adult friend and weirdo vocalist Joe Bonomo having laid down some DC and Pittsburgh roots by moving there permanently, and unlike any RI based hardcore bands at the time spent most of their lifespan on short tours of the east coast and Midwest, playing routinely in New Bedford as opposed to Providence. They made friendships in those days that still last today, and gathered a following in the Midwes, DC, Florida, but made their strongest friendships at that time in New Bedford. They were lucky enough to be thrown on shows with bands like Battery, Good Clean Fun, Brothers Keeper, Camber, Ink and Dagger, Grade, Jeromes Dream, Unearth, Jazz June, Anasarca (with whom they shared members with for ONE show in DC), Midcarson July, Converge, Bane, Roswell, 7th Card Down, Bastian, Forcefedglass, Inkwell, Pensive, Frodus, Spazz and Zao between 95-1999, when they broke up to pursue post-hardcore projects Bradford Ave and The Tragic Formula. Their first show was opening up for Earth Crisis, Thermos, and Pennies from Heaven in 1995 at the Living Room in Providence; when most members were just 14 years old. Ostracized from Rhode Island’s often violent and slow chug tough guy scene at the time, their heart’s home was always in New Bedford. The exposure they had to hardcore scenes and bands across the United States dwarfed any RI band at the time. They became very tight with lifelong close friends from the Warwick, RI and New Bedford crews, and remain so to this day. XBEAUTYDIESX!