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TROUBLE
1990 - Trouble.
way more Helter Skelter.

February 13, 1990 - 2025: 35 years of: Trouble.

Chicago's finest.

Coming from the doom-rock 1987 Run To The Light LP, the band's fourth rebellion would finally adopt a post hippie-flair ...here comes TROUBLE.

The 70s-vibed "At The End Of My Daze" and rough riffology of "The Wolf" cements their cult status in stone. More gain crushes, initiating a "Psychotic Reaction", as the appropriately titled "R.I.P." hits the final nails on rocknroll's coffin.

The arenarock-bound "Black Shapes Of Doom" possessed the frame of an anthem while the southern-boogie of "A Sinner's Flame" is another fine welcomed addition. From full folk to acidrock attack, the 7:20sec powerballad for "The Misery Shows (Act II)" is a bona-fide melody-filled melancholic masterpiece.

Rick Rubin produced and Def American Recordings released, TROUBLE were now entering a new era. A new decade, a new epoch that will soon embrace new alternatives from the upcoming stoner / doom scene, placing TROUBLE at the pole-position.

Their muddy rocknroll vision shall bloom further with 1992's Manic Frustration CD ...a lost record, sadly swamped in the Seattle tidalwave.

RIP Barry Stern (1960-2005)
RIP Eric Wagner (1959-2021)

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At The End Of My Daze = video
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vAoWuTb7wN4
Psychotic Reaction = video
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pOAafxf-IL0
The Misery Shows (Act II) = video
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CSfUNTXacZY
R.I.P. = video
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c2nJK_6idQM
Trouble = full CD
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sQV4TWxdP3Y&list=OLAK5uy_kJmK0HRMVKRKv2IAJ_XYDQQmDoAkR2IDQ
Interview in 1990
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nZ92fFWgV0c
Live in Philadelphia in 1990
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bsKMGYRJ1rQ