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Today we take a look at the legendary punk rock band Discharge who would do the unthinkable...united punk and metal fans. The band's debut record Hear Nothing See Nothing Say Nothing was hugely influential and was even covered by band's like Metallica, Sepultura and Anthrax.
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What's going on my fellow rock n' rollers. Don't forget to smash the bell notification icon to be notified every time i put out a new video on my channel. To a lot of people punk rock’s peak lasted from the mid to the late 70’s and It seemed like punk rock was a flash in the pan, but something that’s often overlooked is that even long after punk rock was thought to be dead there was one punk band that would inspire countless other bands of varying genres who followed in their footsteps. Who am I talking about? Stay tuned out find out.
Today we are going to talking about the band Discharge. The band didn’t just inspire other punk bands, but they were hugely influential on the metal bands that would go on to dominate the 80’s and 90’s. It was the band’s debut record Hear nothing See Nothing Say nothing that would unite once sworn enemies, punk rockers and metal heads.
Influential metal musician Steve Von Till, frontman for the metal band Neurosis reflected on the influence of the band’s debut record saying
“I’ve realised how much I’ve been influenced by what I call ‘The Discharge haiku’. It’s like a strange style of poetry - these short images of war and political deception. Unlike their earlier records, most songs were four lines, tops, but they say so much. It makes it epic, and you can apply them to your own time.”
He would go on to say:
“I was into metal at the time,” “This was before I found punk. But when the punks started telling us metal guys that we should listen to this album, we were intrigued" he'd add.
Now Discharge would form in 1977 in the English town of Stoke on Trent, the same town where Guns N’ Roses guitarist Slash and Lemmy from Motorhead were born in. During the early days of the band no one thought the band would make such an impact on the punk and metal scene. Even by his own admission guitarist Tony ‘Bones’ Roberts would reveal how they were inspired by the bands who came before them and wanted to simply play music revealing to metal hammer “We Just listening to the clash and sex pistols and were having a go at doing that" he'd say.
Like pretty much every rock band Discharge went through a lot of lineup changes during their formative years. In addition to the lineup changes they would also release a number of straightforward singles and EP’s, but the band soon found a base with the small but loyal anarcho punk scene of the 1980’s.
Drummer Garry Maloney would reveal what was so exciting about the scene the band was involved in saying
“It was like a lifestyle that was different, exciting,” Likeminded people hanging out and going to gigs. It was brilliant. From my first show, seeing The Damned at Barbarella’s in Birmingham, to a few years later watching Black Flag soundcheck sitting on my flight case, I loved it all.”
Prior to recording their debut record the band would settle on a lineup consisting of the classic members of bassist Ryston Wainwright, drummer Gary Maloney, Anthony "Bones" Roberts playing guitar, and vocalist Kelvin "Cal" Morris.
As the band entered the studio to record their debut record, they had no clue they’d create the blueprint for bands like Metallica, Sepultura and Napalm Death. Bones would reveal in an interview “We really hit on something around that time,” “We had gone from sounding like a normal punk band into sounding like something else. It was all natural, though. We never tried to sound a certain way; we just started writing sounds about how we felt, and we felt like how that record sounded.”
Discharge would sign a record deal with local label Clay Records who also housed the other hugely influential punk band GBH. Since they were signed to an independent label the band wasn’t given much time in the studio and most songs on their debut album were done in one or two takes, but it didn’t matter. The results speak for themselves and Hear Nothing would combine elements of punk and metal.
The songs on the group's debut album shocked fans. The songs were bite sized pieces no longer than 2.5 minutes featuring the famous D-drum beat synonymous with punk and metal. The album tackled the horrors of war, capitalism, nihilism, paranoia, political deceptio
3 июл 2020
