Scream “Elevate”, from the album “Complete Control Sessions.”
The video was directed by Diona Mavis.
Scream was formed in Northern Virginia in 1981 by singer Peter Stahl, his brother Franz Stahl on guitar, bassist Skeeter Thompson and drummer Kent Stax. They are considered one of the benchmark bands in the history of the Washington, D.C. hardcore music movement. Along with bands such as Minor Threat and Government Issue, Scream ultimately merged the attributes of the movement, which were blinding speed, heavy political and social connotations in the lyrics, unpretentiousness of attitude, and shunning of commercialism. Their music is faithful to the roots of rock, but spun itself into other genres by employing sounds that predate the raunchiness of grunge, while saluting reggae and speed metal.
Scream hated the classification of bands into certain types and considered what they played as simply ‘music.’ Recording their music in the basement of the now legendary Inner Ear Studios in Arlington, Virginia, Scream became the first band on the Dischord label to release a whole album, “Still Screaming”.
For their second album Scream added another guitarist to their line-up, Robert Lee “Harley” Davidson, which eventually led to a powerful dual-lead guitar style, with complex guitar tracking, a more powerful live sound and an over-all crunchier sound for their third album. They also added a keyboard player, Bobby Madden, who was a colleague of Davidson’s from the same metal scene.
After the third album “Banging the Drum”, Kent Stax left the band for personal reasons and was replaced by local drummer Dave Grohl, who then played on Scream’s 4th album “No More Censorship”. The band then toured Europe and recorded their fifth and final studio album “Fumble”, before quitting in late 1990. Pete and Franz started rock band Wool, while Grohl joined grunge band Nirvana. In 1997, Franz Stahl joined Dave Grohl’s newly formed group, the commercially successful Foo Fighters, for a two year stint. During this time, Stahl worked as a road manager for both Foo Fighters and Queens of the Stone Age, while continuing to record albums with several bands, including the Earthlings and Goatsnake.
The original line-up of the band played a reunion show on December 20, 2009 at the Black Cat nightclub in Washington, D.C.[2] and have been playing several shows in 2010. On February 7, 2011, the band supported Foo Fighters on a special show at the Roxy Theatre in Los Angeles, when the Foo Fighters showcased their new album “Wasting Light” for the first time from beginning to end.
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