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Journey stated singer Ielpi's live performance "gave you a picture of what a Communist Party gathering in a Cambodian madhouse would look like". The blog described the band as part of the hardcore scene, but highlighted the occasional use of piano and synthesizer in the
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During its existence, the band went through many line-up changes, which made it difficult to develop a clear style. Spin magazine placed them at the intersection of hardcore, metal and pop and assessed the band as "too offensive to be politically correct and too politically correct to be trend
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junkies". Spin author
Charles M. Young described the band's music as an "independent, punk-influenced synthesis of wildness, moodiness, showmanship and versatile arrangements", and the 1987 album Implosion as having a “pleasant, all-encompassing
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and has published three novels. Wishnia and Tabb founded the band Iron
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had been busted for "distributing harmful material to minors" since April 1986, and the investigation and subsequent trial dragged on to
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Ielpi and DeSalvo continued the band with new members until 1993 and released an EP before the False
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In 1986 Campbell left the band. A replacement was found in the form of George Tabb and Debra Adele DeSalvo, so that the band from then on worked with two guitarists.
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