Band Name: Broken Hope
Music Album: Swamped In Gore
Album Release Date: November 1995
Music Genre: Rock Grindcore Death Metal
Record Label: Metal Blade Records
Album Release Country: Netherlands
Music Record Type: 11 Tracks CD Album Reissue
Death Metal band from Chicago, Illinois, USA, formed in 1988 (under the name Crypt). They split up in the first half of 2001, but reunited in 2007.
Last known line-up:
Jeremy Wagner - Guitars (rhythm) (1988-2001)
Brian Griffin - Guitars (lead) (1991-2001)
Scott Creekmore - Drums, Vocals (1999-2001)
Damian "Tom" Leski - Vocals (2012-present)
Former/past member(s)
Ed Hughes - Bass
Larry DeMumbrum-Drums
Ryan Stanek - Drums
Shaun Glass - Bass
Brian Hobbie - Bass
Started in the late eighties, the core of Broken Hope was formed in an effort to be one of the heaviest acts of the death metal genre. After two popular demos the quintet scored a deal with the then fledgling Grind Core/Red Light label and cut the debut Swamped in Gore. Greeted with enthusiastic response from the underground press the group took off on a small Canadian tour before playing at Milwaukee Metalfest VI, where representatives from Metal Blade Records spotted them.
Snatched up by Metal Blade a couple months later the band issued their sophomore disc in '93, The Bowels of Repugnance. Immediately garnering mainstream attention the quintet were praised by everyone from metal publications and tattoo mags to daily and regional papers like the Detroit Free Press, Illinois Entertainer and The Milwaukee Sentinel-who even dubbed the disc album of the year. The response was overwhelming and untypical of a heavy-handed act like Broken Hop (...)
| 1 | Borivojs Demise (Intro) | 0:49 |
| 2 | Incinerated | 2:40 |
| 3 | Swamped In Gore | 6:32 |
| 4 | Bag Full Of Parts | 5:58 |
| 5 | Dismembered Carcass | 2:17 |
| 6 | Devourer Of Souls | 4:07 |
| 7 | Awakened By Stench | 5:11 |
| 8 | Gorehog | 2:03 |
| 9 | Gobbling The Guts | 6:24 |
| 10 | Cannibal Crave | 4:42 |
| 11 | Claustrophobic Agnostic Dead | 4:04 |
Reissue with different artwork.
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