One of the greatest hardcore albums of all time. Period.

Artist: Boy Sets Fire
Album: The Day The Sun Went Out
Label: Equal Vision
Tracks: 12
Reviewed By: Chaz

The year was 1998. I was a senior in high school. It was the best year of my life to date. I had so many things go right for me that year and the last time I ever really remember being absolutely happy and at peace with myself. There was an album that I came across that year that changed my life forever. I finally found a voice that spoke to me and took me down a path that I will forever continue down. That album that changed my life was Boy Sets Fire - The Day The Sun Went Out. I finally found a band that spoke the words and showed the aggression that I had brewing within my soul and my mind. I really can not express the importance of this album has meant to my life. It tackled the political issues that I had been wrestling with from the naive age of ten up until even now. Not only political issues but also dealt with heartbreak and love and social issues of child abuse and the degrading of women. They did all of this with amazing originality and unbridled passion and this furthered my love this band. This album was one of the many soundtracks to a relationship with a girl that would forever change my life...for good and bad. This album just didn't find a place in life and heart but also in the lives and hearts of many hardcore and punk fans around the world. This album was their sling shot into greatness. It was ground breaking and extremely influential within the hardcore and punk community.

Equal Vision Records with Boy Sets Fire have decided to re-release this now out of print album. This all on the verge of Boy Sets Fire fourth full length album and first in three years, The Misery Index: Notes From The Plague Years. I am eagerly awaiting this new album and I am only expecting greatness and I have not lost faith in them despite their disappointing effort with Tomorrow Come Today. It wasn't a horrible album but it just wasn't Boy Sets Fire. Until the new record comes out, I will play out this album. My old copy on Initial Records is scratched to death and needs to be replaced.

The one thing I absolutely love about this re-release is the fact that it has not been re-mastered or rerecorded. The raw and bad recording quality is still there and it is one of the many components of what made the original so amazing. It is another effort for all the new kids on the block to get a taste of what many of their newer and favorite bands built from. I found my voice in these twelve tracks and I hope that others will find what I did. Thank you Boy Sets Fire.