UKHC History: Your Demise

Your Demise formed in St. Albans during September 2003 and intitially featured a guy called Robert Kiff on vocals, but they didn't record anything with him. The first demo titled 'First Strike' was released in 2005 and featured Roland on vocals. I believe he was also in the OG St. Albans band Flatline (or maybe that was Robert?). They then put out a second demo in 2005 called 'Your Days Are Numbered' - George was now on vocals rather than guitar and they changed drummer between the two demos. I ripped both CDr's and while the songs are the same, the artwork is different and track times slightly different as well.

During 2006, they released their first full length on Zone 6 Records called 'You Only Make Us Stronger'. There were a few other lineup changes here, making George the only original member of the band as Stu didn't join until 2005. An interesting bit of trivia for you - the band Flatline had done a track called 'SAHC' on one of their early 00s demos (if anyone's got these, hmu) so YD did their own version called 'SAHC2'. Even further down the line, another band called Dead Weight did a track called 'SAHC3'!

Photographer and location unknown. Taken sometime in 2008.

Come 2008, they released 'The Blood Stays On The Blade' via Thirty Days Of Night Records. This was their last small release before going with the bigger independent label Visible Noise (BMTH & BFMV etc). Their lineup was mostly the members you see now at this point, aside from James who joined in 2009 from previous band Your Creation. I've also included the extended version of this that was due to be released on Three Swords Records. Not sure what happened there, but I'm not here to run the rumour mill...

I've only included the harder to find George era stuff, as the rest is readily available nowadays. I'm a fan of every iteration of this band, and they've been an important part of me growing up through the hardcore scene.