Kiss It Goodbye was a metalcore/mathcore band from
Seattle that formed in out of the ashes of Rorschach and the departure of vocalist Tim Singer and guitarist
Keith Huckins from Deadguy. Both
Rorschach and Deadguy were New
Jerseymetalcore
acts, but upon Singer & Huckins’s departure from
Deadguy, they moved to
Seattle to start a band with former
Rorschach members Andrew Gormley (drums) and
Tom Rusnak (bass guitar). Huckins was also a
former Rorschach member. Some time before the recording of the first
three tracks on “Choke” (but after the recording of the
“Target Practice b/w Preacher” single), Huckins left the band and was replaced by
Demian Johnston, who had recently done a split with legendary Tacoma,
Washingtonmathcore outfit Botch as part of his band Nineironspitfire. The first
three tracks of “Choke” were recorded with Johnston in , but Tim Singer left the band and thus Kiss It
Goodbye was dissolved. “Choke” was released as an EP. Johnston,
Gormley, and Rusnak would all go on to form another mathcore outfit by the name of Playing Enemy.
Musically, any fans of Rorschach and/or
Deadguy will, naturally enough, love Kiss It
Goodbye. Kiss It Goodbye mixes the kind of “metallic hardcore” songwriting
and arrangements of early metalcore with the trademark
pissed-off and melodramatic yelling of Tim Singer, and
with some of the chaotic twists and turns of early mathcore, to boot. Unfortunately, their only full-length, “She Loves Me, She
Loves Me Not…” has (in my opinion) rather lackluster
mastering. Fortunately, “Choke” — and
“Fixation on a Coworker”, for that matter
— were mastered by Alan Douches, and as a result
sound pretty snappy.
notes on the distributions
“Be Afraid” was a cassette demo.
“Choke” was released posthumously, and features both tracks from
their earlier “Target Practice b/w
Preacher” single. For that reason, the single is not
represented in the discography below.
![vinyl disc [1]](she-loves-me-disc-alt.jpg){kind=link}
