War All The Time

Matthew Shepard was a homosexual university student in Wyoming, USA who was beaten and left to die in what was ruled as a hate crime, leading to new legislation and efforts to stop future hate crimes against the LGBT community. Geoff spoke on this song in a VH1 interview: The last verse has a quote from his father from his murderers' trial, where he said, “That voice is silent now. The boat has sunk.” He’s talking about all these songs that Matthew used to sing and stories that he used to read. Read more on Last.fm.

Thursday is an American post-hardcore band, formed in New Brunswick, New Jersey, in 1997. The band consisted of Geoff Rickly (lead vocals), Tom Keeley (lead guitar, backing vocals), Steve Pedulla (rhythm guitar, backing vocals), Tim Payne (bass guitar), Andrew Everding (keyboards, backing vocals), and Tucker Rule (drums). Thursday released their debut album, Waiting, in late 1999 with original guitarist Bill Henderson, who left the band in 2000 and was replaced by Steve Pedulla. The band gained popularity with the release of their second album, Full Collapse, in 2001, and released their third album and major label debut, War All the Time, in 2003, which reached number seven on the US Billboard Top 200 Albums chart. Thursday released their fourth album, A City by the Light Divided, in 2006, and two further albums, Common Existence and No Devolución, before announcing an indefinite hiatus in 2011. In a January 2013 interview, Geoff Rickly confirmed that the band had actually disbanded. However, the band announced a reunion in 2016. Their reunion would conclude with a performance at Saint Vitus in Brooklyn, NY in March 2019. The band has been considered influential to the post-hardcore music scene in the 2000s, and is credited as one of the key bands to popularize the darker emo sound and screaming vocals which came to prominence at the time. Read more on Last.fm. User-contributed text is available under the Creative Commons By-SA License; additional terms may apply.