Hailing from Richmond, VA, AVAIL mixed genres and subgenres before it was cool, or as AllMusic’s Jo-Ann Greene put’s it —
…Avail slams through musical boundaries, making a nonsense of subgenres; what sounds good, what works, and what makes the biggest noise is the group’s only concern, be it ’70s rock, grunge, hardcore, thrash metal, punk-pop, old-school, new-school, forget school, Avail’s burnt the building down, sucked up the ashes, and regurgitated them into a sound all its own. This is true crossover, a style that can reunite the myriad of today’s tribes under their own banner.
Truer words have rarely been spoken, or in this case, written.
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