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The mountains of western Massachusetts are still reverberating with the cavernous sounds created by hardcore band Deep Wound in the early '80s. Formed by Westfield, MA, high school friends <a href="spotify:artist:5lZRpUHHuIlTB1f5nfl0FK">Scott Helland</a> and <a href="spotify:artist:73ITRDqlSE4huQlrKuqrBU">Lou Barlow</a> in 1981, the band came together quickly. Acquiring a drummer, <a href="spotify:artist:1PokjXeIq2zVosXbTEaNlx">J Mascis</a>, who answered an ad for someone to play "super fast beats," and a vocalist, Charlie Nakajima, they released an EP in the summer of 1983.

Their efforts proved fruitless, however. Although they placed two tracks, "A Time to Stand" and "You're False," on a 1984 compilation, Bands That Could Be God, their frustration to spark much commercial interest led them to disband shortly afterwards.

In the aftermath of Deep Wound's breakup, bandmembers remained active. <a href="spotify:artist:1PokjXeIq2zVosXbTEaNlx">Mascis</a> formed late-'80s band <a href="spotify:artist:267VY6GX5LyU5c9M85ECZQ">Dinosaur Jr.</a> and later, with Nakajima, Gobblehoof. <a href="spotify:artist:5lZRpUHHuIlTB1f5nfl0FK">Helland</a> went on to play with <a href="spotify:artist:3wCO1hf5brJWLTPG0QKxE7">the Outpatients</a> from 1982 until 1995. ~ Craig Harris, Rovi

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