Callous

Australian Christian Punk/Metalcore band Callous was started by Phil Gibson (Drums, Vocals), Craig Holland (Bass, Vocals) and Chris Burton (Guitar) in 1995. Phil had just left Mortification and was looking to do something a bit more hardcore and a bit less metal. Craig was at that time playing with Pet Earwig a local Melbourne Punk band and Chris had recently moved down from Lismore, where he had been involved with Metal band Sanhedrin, to join Melbourne Doom Metal band Paramaecium. With this line up they recorded three songs for a Rowe Productions compilation called 'the extreme truth' which had worldwide distribution, two of these songs where also picked up and published on a U.S. compilation from Rugged Records called Hard and Heavy from Down Under. Not long after this Chris left the band to spend more time working on Paramaecium (or maybe he just wasn't hardcore enough). The next step in their evolution was discovering Nick and Ben Tse who had recently moved to Australia from Hong Kong to study. Coming from a Pop Punk background they helped the music to evolve as Nick played guitar, Ben bass and Craig moved to second guitar. At this point all members of the band where fully dedicated to it's evangelical Christian and Straightedge values and beliefs. With this lineup Callous played many shows in the local, all ages and pub, Hardcore and Punk scene in Melbourne with such bands as Mindsnare, Embodiment 12:14, Seraphs Coal, Ultimatum, Thinktank, Force Fed Nine, Ceasefire, Mortification, No Grace and many others. In 1997 Callous recorded their first full length album entitled 'In The Memory Of'... one of the first full length Metalcore albums to be produced in Australia.

In The Memory Of... (1997)

01 - Respect

02 - Only By Grace

03 - Lost Hope

04 - Strength In My Weakness

05 - In The Memory Of...

06 - Stone The Ho's

07 - Twice Begun

08 - Opinions

09 - Never Alone, Never Again

10 - Daddy

11 - No Apologies

12 - Never Ends (Unashamed cover)

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