Anastasia Screamed | ja

Anastasia Screamed', a group formed in 1987 by guitarist Chris Cugini and drummer Chris Burdett. Tumbling out of the same late-'80s post-punk Boston music scene that produced the Lemonheads, Dinosaur Jr., and the Pixies, geography was the only thing that Anastasia Screamed had in common with their contemporaries. With a dark, discordant hard rock sound that owed as much to sonic assassins like Hüsker Dü and Led Zeppelin as to the pop-oriented college radio rock popular at the time. Featuring the rasping blues-wailings of Chick Granning. Tanya Donnelly (ex-Throwing Muses, also Belly) appears on the 1991 LP, 'Moontime'. The sound of the lonesome, ghostly prairie turned weird. One of the more poignant varieties of Grunge Rock's fruition, Anastasia Screamed combined the warbling vulnerability of Adam Duritz (Counting Crows) with the deafening guitar donnybrook of early Mudhoney. Abrasively noisy, yet emotionally fraught, their music makes hearts and ears suffer simultaneously. .