Forty Days Rain

fortydaysrain- Inception-1996 Location -Worcester/Clinton, MA Formed from the ashes of early 90’s hc/"emo"/metal bands-uplift, fragment, orchard and incite Releases- Self Released 4 song demo tape Cd EP “Temptation Of Our Own Demise“- Originally released on One Way Home Recordings and later picked up by Dave Duncan’s East Coast Empire Records(home of Reach The Sky, Groundzero, Integrity, Sum Of All Fears, Fear Tomorrow and Divided By Hate) Split 7 inch with The Year Of Our Lord on DIE records 2 song 7 inch on Even The Score Records Compilations- Iodine Recordings "Ghost in the Gears" CD compilation with Cave In, Milhouse, Garrison, Converge, Daltonic, Indecision, Jeromes Dream, Force Fed Glass, Catharsis, Bastian, Good Clean Fun and more... Tortuga records “Metal is a Tough Business“ compilation with Shadows Fall, Scissorfight, Non Compos Mentis, Miltown, Piecemeal, the year of our lord and more... Wonderdrug records promo sampler With Sam Black Church, Diecast, Piecemeal and more Endless Fight Records comp with Unearth, Red Sky, Clubber Lang, Nora, God Forbid, Dare to Defy, Undying, Cipher, Day of Mourning, Diecast, Beyond all Hope, Through & Through, Crossthread, Jane, Unsound, All Is Lost, Red Tide, Deep and Final Hour. Our music was mid 90’s metal core plain and simple. We toured the east coast a multitude of times with THE YEAR OF OUR LORD & Fragment - Did a 4 band Wonderdrug Records tour with Piecemeal, Diecast & Die My Will - Played Locobazooka 1999 (I would name the National Headliners, but in all honesty I totally forgot who played, maybe Faith No More???)in front of roughly 15,000 people at Green Hill Park in Worcester (much to the dismay of the hc “scenester”). We also seemed to play the Espresso Bar(Worcester), The Space (Worcester), St. Johns gym (Clinton) Café Savoi (aka nightmare central, NH) and The Safe & Sound(NH) on a weekly basis. Follow that up with some early metal fests at the Worcester Palladium, The Milwaukee Metal Fest(1999) and a reunion show (original members) in memory of our good friend Davey K at Kinosian fest in 2002 and you have our shit show in a nutshell. We obviously went through some member changes- Brian(vocals) left the band due to other obligations. Patrick(2nd guitar) left due to financial reasons. Jay Fox came in and played 2nd guitar while Rob Fusco (fresh from his One King Down departure) came in and sang(the only known recording with Rob appears on a 7 song WERS live appearance that Al has laying around somewhere on cassette). Rob does a tour with FDR and talks resume to get Pat back in on guitar. Fdr begins playing shows with 3 guitarists(the only known recording of this is a video of the FDR show in Long Island NY from some local access HC cable show). Rob and FDR decide to amicably part ways. Jay Fox who was playing guitar moves over to vocals. Pat decides to exit the band for good and is replaced by Jay Zucco (of Grimlock fame) for the final stages of the group before disbanding. Worcester, MA based 90's Straight edge Metal/Hardcore band