Speaking of Fucked Up side projects, Damian Abraham's Millenial Reign is easily amongst my favorites. I really didn't know too much about this band until I found a copy of this 7" at Generation Records in New York. Being the obsessive TOHC collector that I am, I immediately picked up the 7" and brought it back with me to Hogtown for further inspection. Millenial Reign is the ultimate short-lived side project of Damian Abraham (Fucked Up, Pink Eye), along with Jordan Posner and Jesse Labovitz (ex-No Warning) making Clevo-style, Integrity-worship hardcore. Chris Colohan (Burning Love, Cursed, Mature Situations, The Swarm, Ruination, Fucked Up, Career Suicide) and George Pettit (Alexisonfire) also join in on the party for a bit. Aside from being an over the top SOHC name drop, this record really rules. I don't know anything about Clevo hardcore but Millenial Reign has a very melodic heavy hardcore sound. This comes off best in the first song, "I Start Fires With My Mind", whose beautiful lyrics describe the spirituality present in the evolutionary process of humans, bridging the gap between Creationists and Evolutionists in a song that sounds something close to the end of the world.
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