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||| Artist Name_____> Shelter |||
||| Album Name______> Attaining the Supreme |||
||| Label___________> Revelation |||
||| Genre___________> Hardcore |||
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||| Release Date____> 2016-10-21 |||
||| Street Date_____> 1993-00-00 |||
||| Size____________> 410.08mb ||
|| Playtime________> 66:23 ||
|| Encoder_________> FLAC 1.3.1 ||
|| Quality_________> 867 kbps / 44.1khz / 2 channels ||
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| 1 Better Way 3:17 |
| 2 One concern 3:30 |
| 3 In Praise of Others 3:48 |
| 4 Consumer 3:17 |
| 5 Progressive Man 4:26 |
| 6 Not Just a Package 4:21 |
| 7 Hands of Time 2:47 |
| 8 Knowledge of the Absolute 2:20 |
| 9 Busy Doing Nothing 2:45 |
| 10 Shelter 2:59 |
| 11 Chanting and Singing Part 1 5:41 |
| 12 Chanting and Singing Part 2 27:12 |
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| Shelter -- alongside Snapcase, Strife, Earth Crisis, and Sick of |
| It All -- were one of the biggest hardcore bands of the mid-'90s. |
| Led by singer Ray Cappo through a variety of lineups and stylistic |
| shifts, the group preached Hare Krishna religious concepts and |
| played high-energy rock music to audiences worldwide; looking |
| likely, for a time, to achieve huge crossover success in the |
| mainstream, which never quite materialized. Still, they raised |
| questions never before pondered by punk rock; offering up a |
| variety of answers culled from Vedic tradition and scriptures, |
| which were embraced for a handful of years by many fans and |
| challenged by many of Cappo's punk peers. Ray Cappo came to |
| underground prominence fronting the late-'80s straight-edge group |
| Youth of Today, a band that would eventually spawn Judge, Project |
| X, and major-label rockers Civ,Quicksand, and Rival Schools. He |
| was the vocalist, lyricist, and spokesperson for the group, who |
| led the pack of '80s positive-thinking, drug-free living, |
| vegetarian hardcore punk "youth crew" outfits. He co-founded New |
| York's Revelation Records, which later relocated to Southern |
| California. But, by the end of Youth of Today's run, he felt |
| dissatisfied, feeling a spiritual yearning. He began to study the |
| teachings of the Hare Krishna movement, and after a trip to India, |
| returned a full-fledged Krishna Consciousness devotee. He decided |
| to make one last album to preach these ideas. |
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| So, together with friends from the band 76% Uncertain, he crafted |
| an album's worth of spiritually challenging, thought-provoking |
| songs, while moving away from Youth of Today's screaming vocal |
| style into more melodic singing. The project was issued by |
| Revelation under the band name Shelter; coined to invoke the idea |
| of a devotee seeking "shelter" from his guru, and ultimately, from |
| Krishna, or God. The album, Perfection of Desire, ignited a new |
| attraction to the Krishna ideas within a hardcore scene |
| previously, if less intently, exposed to them by New York's |
| Cro-Mags. Cappo decided to continue preaching to youth with |
| Shelter as his vehicle. He enlisted some of his old Youth of Today |
| mates to help him go on tour. Shelter toured with Inside Out, and |
| Cappo convinced Inside Out guitarist Vic Dicara to leave his band |
| and join him in the crusade. Together, as devotees, the two |
| preached the religion through hardcore music, and cut the single |
| No Compromise for Cappo's new Equal Visionimprint, with some other |
| musicians helping out. Dicara soon exited the group, forming his |
| own Krishna Conscious outfit, 108. Cappo next enlisted his old |
| Youth of Today partner, guitarist Porcell, who had become a |
| devotee himself. Porcell would stay with Shelter for many years |
| through a revolving cast of members, with he and Cappo acting as |
| consistent leaders, songwriters, and spokespersons. Equal Vision |
| collected the band's first single, along with another called In |
| Defense of Reality, and released them as an album called Quest for |
| Certainty in 1992 (it would be reissued by Revelation a few years |
| later). Cappo gave the label over to his friend and fellow |
| devotee, Steve Reddy. Shelter toured the U.S. and Europe |
| extensively, amassing a large Krishna-minded straight-edge |
| following, and invoking the anger and ire of the more |
| atheist-minded punk rock set. They slept in temples, and chanted |
| outside of gigs, selling the books of sect founder AC |
| Bhaktivedanta Prabhupada at their merchandise tables alongside |
| their records and T-shirts. Cappo also released a book of his own. |
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| Their next album for Equal Vision, 1993's Attaining the Supreme, |
| was their mellowest and most melodic hardcore offering yet. They |
| toured behind it with Norman Arenas playing second guitar; a New |
| York native who would later form Texas Is the Reason, briefly |
| re-join Shelter, and end up in a group called New End Original. In |
| 1995, Shelter signed a deal with Roadrunner Records that allowed |
| Cappo to also release albums under his own Super Soul Records |
| imprint. The first result of that partnership was Shelter's Mantra |
| album, one-half a return to the hardcore anthem style of YOT and |
| one-half melodic punk, recorded with bassist Adam Blake and |
| session drummer Dave DiCenso. They toured with Earth Crisis and |
| several other bands. In 1997, in an effort to bolster their |
| commercial appeal, the band issued the poorly received Beyond |
| Planet Earth, a collection of mismatched songs that ran the gamut |
| from hardcore to pop-punk, industrial music, and even ska. White |
| Zombie guitarist J. Yeunger played on one song as a guest, and the |
| group -- now including former-108 bassist Franklin Rhi -- toured |
| with bands like Goldfinger and No Doubt. They were involved in a |
| very serious van accident while touring for the album, when their |
| driver feel asleep and veered off of a Colorado cliff. Everyone |
| survived, but some had serious injuries which took months to |
| recover from. |
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| Shelter soon parted ways with Roadrunner due to slumping record |
| sales and soaring album budgets. In 2000, they started shopping a |
| raw, self-financed album to prospective labels, eventually |
| releasing When 20 Summers Pass through Victory in the U.S. and |
| Century Media abroad. Though they remained big in South America |
| and parts of Europe, the group's popularity had waned in the U.S. |
| The Krishna fad had all but died in the hardcore scene, and even |
| the group themselves had, a couple of years prior, begun to |
| distance themselves from full-on preaching. Cappo, who had taken |
| on the "initiated" name "Raganutha Das," began referring to |
| himself as "Ray" again, and also sang on a couple of albums for |
| straight-edge project band Better Than a Thousand. They said that |
| the Victory album would be their last, but it wasn't. Despite the |
| departure of longtime collaborator Porcell, partially due to |
| Cappo's public break from the straight-edge lifestyle, Cappo |
| crafted another Shelter album in 2001, The Purpose, The Passion, |
| and released it on his own record label. |
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