and I'm very happy I did. Quite what took me so long I do not know, maybe it was that most people whose opinions I'd seen in passing compared them to Thursday who, while not a bad band (at least in the early "Waiting"/"Full Collapse" days), always just seemed a bit wet for all the screaming that went on. It seemed too much like something I'd have loved when I was 17 and then sheepishly shifted to the back of my CD collection in later years, but I've been listening to "A Dead Sinking Story" pretty solidly for several days now.

But, since that's as far as I've got in their discography, where would you go next? And does anyone have any other good, noise-happy Japanese hardcore bands that may have also gone overlooked?