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Seattle's female punk band, 7 Year Bitch, nearly wasn't.
After the completion of its debut album, the group's guitarist died of a drug overdose. The other three members, Valerie Agnew, Elizabeth Davis and Selene Vigil, decided to carry on.
In 1993, they hired guitarist Roisin (pronounced Ro-sheen) Dunne. The next year, 7 Year Bitch released ``Viva Zapata,'' which caught the ears of Atlantic Records.
If fury is what Atlantic wanted, the band's new album, ``Gato Negro,'' delivers. Vigil, the band's singer, spits out her intense lyrics against a backdrop of thundering metal.
Although subtlety isn't a word one would use to describe 7 Year Bitch, the record does reveal a growing process.
``This is our third album; we're still learning to use the studio,'' Dunne said during a telephone interview from Seattle, where she was making spaghetti. ``We made a conscious effort to create different textures and sounds...