The Chrome history is a storybook example of the volatility of creative collaboration. Two radically different artistic ideals managed to collide for a brief time with amazing results, but ultimately the dialectic was a destructive one.

First order of business: if you are expecting this to be an article about the generic Canadian alterna-goth band with the almost identical name, check to make sure you didn’t omit an all-important “THE” at the beginning of your Google search. What we are dealing with here is the trashy, blood-curdling psychedelic noise machine that hails from the land of Natty Boh and cheap homicide (that’s Baltimore, for those of you lucky enough to have never been there).
These guys have been vandalizing a lot of eardrums (and occasionally other things) …