The Crownhate Ruin was a short-lived post-hardcore

Post-hardcore

Post-hardcore is a genre of music that developed from hardcore punk, itself an offshoot of the broader punk rock movement. Like post-punk, post-hardcore is a term for a broad constellation of groups...

 band from Washington, D.C.

Washington, D.C.

Washington, D.C., formally the District of Columbia and commonly referred to as Washington, "the District", or simply D.C., is the capital of the United States. On July 16, 1790, the United States Congress approved the creation of a permanent national capital as permitted by the U.S. Constitution....

. Formed by ex-Hoover

Hoover (band)

Hoover was an American post-hardcore band from Washington, DC. Formed in 1992, Hoover went on to produce some of the more intense music to appear on the Dischord Records label in the 1990s...

 members Fred Erskine and Joe McRedmond, the band also featured Vin Novara (ex-1.6 Band)

1.6 Band

1.6 Band is an American hardcore punk band consisting of Kevin Egan , Lance Jaeger , Vin Novara , and Mike Yanicelli .-Early History:The band was originally formed in 1989 by Jaeger, Novara, and Yanicelli in Holbrook, Long Island, New York,...

 on drums.

History

Hoover disbanded after a 1994 US tour. That same year the Crownhate Ruin began touring and recording what would eventually become a collection of singles, as well as a split with Boston band Karate

Karate (band)

Karate was an American band, formed in Boston, Massachusetts in 1993 by Geoff Farina, Eamonn Vitt and Gavin McCarthy. In 1995, Jeff Goddard joined the band as bass player, and Vitt moved to second guitar...

. In 1996 they released their only full length album, Until the Eagle Grins, on Dischord Records

Dischord Records

Dischord Records is a Washington, D.C.-based independent record label specializing in the independent punk music of the D.C.-area music scene. The label is co-owned by Ian MacKaye and Jeff Nelson, who founded Dischord in 1980 to release Minor Disturbance by The Teen Idles...

 before splitting up later that year.

Later on, the three members would collaborate on recordings or in performances for The Boom, HiM

HiM (band)

HiM is a dub influenced post-rock group formed in 1995 by Doug Scharin, drummer for the bands Codeine, Rex and June of 44. Their first album, Egg, was their most dub-based effort. Each successive album has gone more in a quasi-world music direction...

, and The Sorts

The Sorts

The Sorts are a primarily instrumental post-rock band based in Washington, D.C. and formed in 1994 by Josh LaRue , Stuart Fletcher and Chris Farrall . LaRue, Fletcher and Farrall comprised the band's core, appearing on all recordings, but they have been joined on several releases by Carlo Cennamo...

. Erskine went on to join June of 44

June of 44

June of 44 was an American rock band which was formed in 1994 from ex-members of Rodan, Lungfish, Rex, and Hoover. The band's music is often described as 'math rock'. The band's name refers the period during which erotic fiction writers Henry Miller and Anaïs Nin corresponded.The band toured...

 before Hoover reunited.

Singles

• Elementary 7" "Lesson in Thread" b/w "Pioneers" (T.C. Ruin, 1995)
• Primer 7" "Present to President" and "Last Place in Triage" b/w "My Country Getaway" (T.C. Ruin, 1995)
• Visit from Mars" b/w Karate "Cherry Coke" (Art Monk Construction
  Art Monk Construction
  Art Monk Construction was founded by Eric Astor and Garrett Rothman in State College, Pennsylvania in 1993. When Rothman left State College to study abroad, Astor was joined in managing the label by Rich Kraemer, a childhood friend from Tempe, Arizona, and the two additionally formed Lumberjack...
  
  split 7" with Karate, 1995)
• Intermediate 7" "Better Still If They Don't Know" b/w "Every Minute's Sucker" (Dischord/T.C. Ruin, 1995)