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1980s[edit]

Disheartened by Boston's local punk bands like Mission of Burma and the Neighbourhoods, and feeling enfranchised by straight edge after watching Minor Threat perform in New York City, Boston's first hardcore band was SSD.[1] Formed in 1981 and performing live for the first time on September 19 of the same year, SSD influenced the formation of a Boston hardcore scene. The groups of bands especially influenced by SSD and their straight edge philosophy called themselves the Boston Crew, which included DYS and Negative FX, while other early bands to join the scene included Jerry's Kids, the F.U.'s, Gang Green and the Freeze.[2] The scene hardcore shows made heavy use of slam dancing, influenced by that found in the Los Angeles and Washington D.C. scene, however more violent, incorporating punching below the neck, a style called the "Boston thrash" or "punching penguins". Another style of moshing common was "pig piles" in which one person was pushed to the ground and others would begin to pile on top of them. This originated during a D.O.A. set, which was initiated by SSD vocalist Al Barile.[3]

In 1982, Modern Method Records released This Is Boston, Not L.A., a compilation album of the Boston hardcore scene. In addition to Modern Method was Taang! Records, who released material by a number of the aforementioned Boston hardcore bands.[4]

Members of the Boston Crew would later go on to form the band Slapshot.[5]

Despite writing a mere 20 minutes of music and never playing outside of New England, Siege became highly influential. Their tracks on Cleanse the Bacteria exposed them to wide audiences, including Lars Ulrich of Metallica, who described them as the fastest band he had ever heard.[6] Numerous pioneering bands establishing the death metal and grindcore subgenres in the 1980s cited Siege as a formative influence,[7] including British groups Carcass[8] and Napalm Death.[9]

By 1986, SSD, DYS and the F.U.'s has begun to play heavy metal, with the lattermost doing so also changing their name to Straw Dogs.[10] By the end of the year, both SSD and DYS had disbanded.[11][12]

Further outside of Boston were Western Massachusetts bands Deep Wound (which featured future Dinosaur Jr. members J Mascis and Lou Barlow) and the Outpatients, both of whom would come to Boston to play shows.[13] From nearby Manchester, New Hampshire was G.G. Allin, a solo singer who contrary to straight edge used large amounts of drugs and alcohol, eventually dying of a heroin overdose.[14] Allin's stage show included defecating on stage and then throwing his feces at the audience.[15]

1990s[edit]

Converge

In the mid-1990s, many groups emerged in the Boston scene merging elements of metal and hardcore and helping to pioneer metalcore. Converge were one of the earliest and most prominent bands in this group, followed by bands like Cave In. Much of this scene were based around Hydra Head Records, which was founded by Aaron Turner after moving to Boston. Additionally albums would often be produced by Converge guitarist Kurt Ballou.[16]

American Nightmare formed as a reaction against the lyrical positivity of Youth Crew revival bands perusing a more dark and nihilistic sound in comparison through the influence of the Smiths and Joy Division.[17][18] Other influences include Black Flag, the Cro-Mags and Siouxsie and the Banshees.[19] Their music often makes use of high-tempos, breakdowns, gang vocals and singalongs.[18] Their music would go on to influence notable acts such as the White Noise,[20] Frameworks,[21] Killing the Dream, Defeater, Touché Amoré and Dead Swans.[22]

In the late 90s, Elgin James, a musician involved in the militant faction of the Boston straight edge scene, helped found the organization Friends Stand United.[23] By the early 2000s, there were FSU chapters in Philadelphia, Chicago, Arizona, Los Angeles, Seattle, upstate New York and New Jersey, and they were considered to have about 200 members.[24] The Federal Bureau of Investigation, eventually classified FSU as a street gang, which used violent methods and repeatedly assault people at hardcore shows and on Boston streets. In conjunction with the gang activities, James eventually did time in jail for extortion.[25]

2000s[edit]

At the beginning of the 2000s, many of the bands from Boston's 1990s metalcore began becoming increasingly experimental, with Cave In starting to make progressive music and Aaron Turner's post-metal band Isis emerging from the scene. Metal Hammer writer Stephen Hill called Jane Doe by Converge "the high watermark of the Boston scene [in this era]". Around this time, many of these acts international mainstream attention, with Cave In signing to the major label Capitol Records and touring with the Foo Fighters.[26]

Another metalcore scene began to emerge in Boston in the late-1990s and early-2000s, that was disconnected from the prior acts, which Converge vocalist Jacob Bannon referred to as the "commercial metalcore scene". This scene was fronted by Killswitch Engage, Shadows Fall and Unearth.[26]

References[edit]

  1. ^ Blush, Steven (October 2001). American Hardcore: A Tribal History. Feral House. p. 243. Al Barile (SS Decontrol): The Boston Punk scene was a congregation of drugged-out losers. They had this elitist attitude. I could not get with it at all. It was an older thing: The Neighborhoods and Mission Of Burma the established bands - but they had no connection to me; the guitars weren't heavy. I remember I went to a Neighborhoods show in 1980 or 1981. There was this Punk there, Bob White, who was the first victim of some kind of ritual slam thing with me. The other guy I was with got busted because we slammed this Punk around so hard.
    Alan Barile, a beer-drinkin' hockey jock from blue-collar Lynn, MA, transformed himself in 1981 after seeing Minor Threat at New York's Irving Plaza. He established what became Boston Hardcore, and almost everyone fell in line with his uncompromising ethos. With shaved head, Straight Edge militancy and take-no-prisoners physicality, Al embodied modern HC stereotypes. He was the Pavarotti of shots to the body...
    SS DECONTROL got started by Barile in the summer of 1981. Originally "Society System Decontrol," they shortened the name to SS Decontrol, then again to SSD. For a year or two, they were incredible. The virulent anti-drug lyrics of vicious guitarist Al - driven by the potent rhythm of bassist Jaime Sciarappa and drummer Chris Foley - came through throat-shredding vocalist Phil "Springa" Spring; one of HC's great frontmen and a scrappy fucker, the former Outlets roadie could slamdance and stagedive with the best of 'em. SS Decontrol's first album, 1982's The Kids Will Have Their Say (the debut on Al's X-Claim! label), certifies as a classic.
    Dave Smalley: SSD were the guys. Without SSD, there wouldn't've been a Boston Crew, a Hardcore scene or a Straight Edge scene. Give credit where it's due.
  2. ^ Blush, Steven (October 2001). American Hardcore: A Tribal History. Feral House. p. 243–244. A local scene coalesced at early SSD shows. They first gigged September 19, 1981 at the Gallery East, second in Cape Cod that November at the Mill Hill Club in Yarmouth, MA, third on December 26 in Boston at Street's, an uncool Rock Disco...
    The clique of twenty or so Straight Edge toughs that formed around Al Barile and SSD got known as Boston Crew. They shaved their heads both as a belligerent Hardcore statement and to differentiate themselves from New Wave types with dumb angular haircuts. Boston Crew are the ones running up the capitol stairs on the first SSD album's cover. Crew bands included SSD, DYS and Negative FX. Other great Boston HC groups like Gang Green, The FU's, Jerry's Kids and The Freeze smoked weed or drank beer, thus exluding [sic] themselves from the Straight Edge pack.
  3. ^ Blush, Steven (October 2001). American Hardcore: A Tribal History. Feral House. p. 249. Kids in the pit jumped on each other in "pig-piles." This unique local pastime, like the scene itself, often turned into a scary mess. At some point they'd throw some kid onstage and pigpile him right there. There'd be as many as twenty kids — stacked up so high they'd touch the lights — crushing those on the bottom.
    Al Barile: It's a Boston thing. I think I was the first person to push someone down and start the pile. This D.O.A. show at The Underground was the first pigpile I remember. It got so crazy the drummer trashed his kit and jumped on top of the pile...
    "Straight Edge" Hank Peirce (Boston scene): Boston was much more violent than slamming I'd seen anywhere else. We described it as "punching penguins." It had a name — "The Boston Thrash." New York had that big circle-storm thing. DC wasn't as organized — more chaotic with more diving. LA was the king of running in circles with no sense of rhythm to it. When you watched The Decline Of Western Civilization you said, "That's slamdancing!" But Boston really changed things.
    The dancefloor action could turn savage but it was never about hits above the shoulders or blatant shots to the face. There were plenty of bloody or broken noses, but after knocking someone down, you'd bend over and pick them up.
  4. ^ March 2020, Stephen Hill01. "How Boston hardcore changed rock music". Loudersound.com. Retrieved September 5, 2020.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link)
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  6. ^ Cite error: The named reference Mudrian 51 was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
  7. ^ Mudrian 38, 126
  8. ^ Gamble, Billy (7 April 2014). "Interview: Carcass' Bill Steer". Digboston.com. Archived from the original on 12 July 2014. Retrieved 17 July 2014.
  9. ^ Glasper 2009, p. 12
  10. ^ Steven Blush. American Hardcore: a Tribal History. Feral House, 2010. p. 190-191
  11. ^ Hereth, Simon (February 17, 2020). "SS DECONTROL: Comeback der 80er Hardcore-Punk-Band?". Awayfromlife.com. Retrieved September 5, 2020.
  12. ^ "Music man – BCM – Spring 2004". Bcm.bc.edu. Retrieved September 5, 2020.
  13. ^ Blush, Steven; Petros, George (October 19, 2010). American Hardcore (Second Edition): A Tribal History. Feral House. p. 278. ISBN 9781932595987. Retrieved September 5, 2020 – via Google Books.
  14. ^ Prato, Greg. "GG Allin: the Gruesome Life and Tragic Death of the Most Shocking Man in Music". Loudersound. Retrieved 16 July 2023.
  15. ^ Schager, Nick (December 13, 2018). "The Ballad of a Bloody, Poop-Throwing Punk-Rock 'Terrorist'". The Daily Beast. Retrieved September 5, 2020.
  16. ^ Hill, Stephen. "How Boston hardcore changed rock music". Metal Hammer. Retrieved 7 July 2021.
  17. ^ Rettman, Tony. Straight Edge A Clear-Headed Hardcore Punk History.
  18. ^ a b "Wesley Eisold of American Nightmare Talks Legacy, Mental Health and Stripped Back Hardcore". Kerrang!. Retrieved 25 November 2019.
  19. ^ Hughes, Josiah. "American Nightmare Announce New Album, Share "The World Is Blue"". Retrieved 25 November 2019.
  20. ^ "Getting Lost Within The White Noise & 'AM/PM'". Newnoisemagazine.com. 2017-08-11. Retrieved 2017-10-14.
  21. ^ Sacher, Andrew. "Five Notable Releases of the Week (2/16)". Retrieved 25 November 2019.
  22. ^ "Back on the Deck: American Nightmare – 'Background Music'". Retrieved 25 November 2019.
  23. ^ "FBI — Alleged Founder of Street Gang that Uses Violence to Control Hardcore Punk Rock Music Scene Arrested on Extortion Charge for Shaking Down $5,000 from Recording Artist for Protection". Fbi.gov. Archived from the original on April 28, 2014. Retrieved August 20, 2014.
  24. ^ Binelli, Mark (August 23, 2007). "Punk Rock Fight Club". Rollingstone.com. Retrieved September 5, 2020.
  25. ^ "Alleged Founder of Street Gang that Uses Violence to Control Hardcore Punk Rock Music Scene Arrested on Extortion Charge for Shaking Down $5,000 from Recording Artist for Protection". Federal Bureau of Investigation. July 14, 2009. Retrieved May 30, 2014.
  26. ^ a b Cite error: The named reference Hill 2020 was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
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