Born out of a shared love for the sonic entropy and nervous recklessness of early-to-mid '90's emotional hardcore, Solarized's sound has breached that vortex. Debuting with A Ghost Across Hell From Me, a record that drips with dynamic, layered, yet heavy guitar lines from Joe Gough and the ritualized, tribal rhythms of Jeff Ziga (both musicians handling bass guitar duties for this recording), guest appearances from electronic noise-maker Steve Montenegro and accomplished jazz pianist and composer Christopher Gordon Forbes, along with dynamic production out of Red Planet Studios. It's all spiked with a techno-virus infected ankh via the Afrofuturist/afropunk hysterics of sci-fi writer Alex Smith on vocals, lyrics. A Ghost promises the cosmic mayhem of a band who, as Maximum Rock n Roll put it in a review of the band's first demo, brings "a radical sound of a revolution happening without permission, rejecting dominant structures of meaning or systems of knowledge." A Ghost Across Hell From Me is the debut album from Solarized, a chaotic, noisy punk band from Philadelphia. It's the sound of unearthed ink-smudged art-punk 7"s, cut'n pasted from the want ads of '90's hardcore zines, and shot into space. Weird, grimey and magical hardcore punk songs on LP and cassette. A portal; a vortex.
