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You Shriek is an American band founded in 1990 by Raziel Panic. Their sound includes influences from 1980s 4AD, New Romantic, Goth and Industrial. They are associated with underground club scenes catering to fans of Darkwave, Futurepop, and EBM.
History
In late 1990, after briefly seeking and auditioning traditional rock band members, Raziel Panic invited college mate Jason Arnone to record, program and perform with him, alongside MIDI-sequenced synthesizers and other electronic instruments. In 1991 they began playing shows as a duo, and released their first cassette mini-album, Suicide Note. The album was made at Boston’s historic Downtown Recorders, where Panic was working as an assistant engineer.
John Oleary (guitar and synthesizers) and Skot Kremen (bass and synthesizers) joined in 1994 to form a complete studio and live act. That year they also released the CD EP, Grim. In 1996, after building a local following on-stage, and releasing their mixes directly to dance clubs, they signed with Mere Mortal Productions to make their first full-length album, Burn Something Dear. Before touring to support the release, Arnone left the group to commit to his work in the visual arts. Panic, Oleary and Kremen continued to headline and open for touring acts.
After Mere Mortal ceased operations, the band took time off from playing live as Panic assembled the Zero Zero Island project studio, with plans to self-produce future releases. The result was the second full-length album, 2004’s Unreal Cities.
By late 2006, the band had completed demos for what was intended to be their first album for their recent signing to Invisible Records, however personnel obligations outside the music business had made requisite pre-release touring impossible, and the deal was never consummated.
To decide on a new direction, the group withdrew from the scene, releasing only episodes of the video podcast Spies On Zero Zero Island until 2009. Later that year, Panic began work on new recordings for the aborted third album, re-imagining it as a continuum back to several early, unreleased demos. In 2010, after working in the lengthy development & beta-testing period, Panic launched the first two songs from this collection with the Rock Band Network on Xbox. The third album is titled Somewhere Between (Heaven & Sorrow) and is scheduled for release in Spring 2011.
