20 Years and on
Twenty years active is a milestone few artists reach with any one project, especially in underground and local scenes. For Love Story’s End, the big anniversary is not one just focused on looking back, but forward.
Love Story’s End is the brainchild of guitarist/vocalist/producer Clint Hagler, who introduced the band to the coast’s punk rock scene back in 2003. In 2006 on the anniversary of Hurricane Katrina, the early Love Story’s End unleashed the first taste of their furious sound with the demo album Biloxi War Tribe which was and is currently available only on CD.
The band’s sound is most known for its unpredictable assault of heavy guitar riffs and hooks, pounding drums and aggressive, screaming vocals peppered with clean, haunting melodic sections. The chaotic power of that live sound was laid to track and is showcased on the album Death Doesn’t Deserve Me, which is LSE’s biggest release and one that Hagler points to as the band’s proudest accomplishment… so far.
Death Doesn’t Deserve Me dropped in 2011 and is a concept album which was released independently along with a graphic novel that expands on the album’s story. When read sequentially, the album’s 12 song titles form a poem:
And So the Righteous, Fall to Darkness, Virtue is of the Past, Guilt is a Reigning Future, Purged of Ye Soul At Last, Healing Hands, Hold, Beating Hearts, As Angels Turn to Thee, But Pure is Flight, Where Wings Ignite, Death Doesn’t Deserve Me.
