EXIT LINES: THE BRIEF HISTORY

Behind Closed Doors were a young hardcore band from
Baltimore, MD. As the title of this collection suggests, their tenure
was all too brief. Formed in 1996 and disbanded by 1998, Behind
Closed Doors released a scarce, minimally packaged 12" on the
historic punk imprint, Vermin Scum (Moss Icon, Born Against,
Universal Order of Armageddon) and quickly became renowned
in the Baltimore/DC region for their unusually long, dynamic songs
and alarmingly unhinged live shows. Bridging the crazed emotions
of early screamo bands like Heroin and Angel Hair, the thoughtful
complexity of Unwound, and the sinister heaviness of His Hero Is
Gone, Behind Closed Doors was a huge bolt of lightning in a very
tiny bottle. They broke up while in the process of writing what would
have been their debut full-length for Temporary Residence in 1998,
leaving behind a recorded legacy of what they were, and a
blueprint of what they could've been.