Turn your back on your past...

Vendetta Red has broken up. I'm not surprised so much that they've broken up as I'm surprised that I care (and am actually somewhat sad to see them go). Back in 2002-2003 I really, really adored them and was completely convinced that they were the next big thing. And then I stopped caring. I mean, after they decided to seemingly focus on everything I hated about White Knuckled Substance and dismiss everything I liked (their major label debut is about 50% their last album, except none of the really good songs made it in in lieu of awful garbage like "Stay Home"), I didn't really bother with much of their stuff from that point on (really, I think I sort of outgrew them in a way).

Still, my sister will be pissed when she hears if she hasn't heard yet. I'm considering taking her to their last show next month; even if they don't play anything I want to hear (last time I saw them, at Endfest '05, they played what was almost a carbon copy of what they played at Bumbershoot '03 with a couple of new songs thrown in along with some of the most amazingly over-the-top summaries of their new songs ever. "This is about huffing glue... with GOD."), it seems right to see them for a fourth and final time. Plus I'd really like to see Kane Hodder live; I like what I've heard of their KEXP session.