San Diego is known to be cool, calm and sunny. But its underbelly has always boiled with tension. Combining three musicians from Coronado influenced by the post punk of Helicopter, with a lead singer from Chula Vista who learned the ethics of Hardcore at early Amenity shows, Chronic Meter plays music from this place of cultural and social tension.

Formed in 1992 inside the rehearsal studios at Soundtrax off Pacific Highway, the band released one independent album, 1994's "Jericho Revisited", as well as a couple demo tapes. They wrote songs like "Bruise", "Shoveled Down" and "New Typology" that tried to contain the emotional fallout of tensions between the classes and races in hard, heavy, angry tones. Chronic Meter performances
at Bodies, The Casbah and Soma were often fascinating and entertaining realizations of this tension on stage and in the audience. As band and fans moshed to the music, there was an appreciation for living on the fault line between beauty and rejection.

Love and its chaos also made for motivation to mosh with songs like "Yes", "Riot Grrl", and "Gold" that flirted with the quiet/loud dynamic reminiscent of bands like Tool, Far, and Deftones. Perhaps the most identifiable string of influence in Chronic Meter's music is the overtly political protest a la Rage Against the Machine in rap-metal songs like "Jericho Revisited", "Saving the I", "Lapel",
and "Alien", a song that positioned the band against the implementation of Proposition 187 that would have denied even emergency medical services to undocumented persons.

After a successful sold out reunion show at the Casbah in the summer of 2012, Chronic Meter has entered the studio to record and release previously unrecorded material and has a series of shows planned for the summer of 2013.
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