Discharge

1. Discharge are an English hardcore punk band formed in 1977 in Stoke-on-Trent, Staffordshire. The band is known for influencing several sub-genres of extreme music and their songs have been covered by many notable artists in heavy metal and other genres. The musical sub-genre of D-beat is named after Discharge and the band's distinctive drumbeat. The band is characterized by a minimalistic approach to music and lyrics, using a heavy, distorted Read more on Last.fm …read full bio

1. Discharge are an English hardcore punk band formed in 1977 in Stoke-on-Trent, Staffordshire. The band is known for influencing several sub-genres of extreme music and their songs have been covered by many notable artists in heavy metal and other genres. The musical sub-genre of D-beat is named after Discharge and the band's distinctive drumbeat. The band is characterized by a minimalistic approach to music and lyrics, using a heavy, distorted, and grinding guitar-driven sound and raw, shouted vocals similar to a political speech, with lyrics on anarchist and pacifist themes, over intense drone-like rhythms. The band's sound has been called a "grave-black aural acid assault." Discharge "paved the way for an astounding array of politically motivated, musically intense and deeply confrontational bands" and displayed a "revolutionary/activist" political attitude that moved British hardcore punk away from its pub rock origins and towards a "dangerous and provocative" or anti-establishment leftist territory. Discharge influenced various extreme metal styles such as thrash metal, black metal, crust punk and grindcore. The band's "brutal, extremist approach" and "extreme thrash noise" style of playing eventually led to the thrash genre. "Discharge's influence on heavy metal is incalculable and metal superstars such as Metallica, Anthrax, Machine Head, Sepultura, Soulfly, Prong and Arch Enemy have covered Discharge's songs in tribute." Discharge is a major influence on at least two generations of metal. 2. Discharge were an English punk rock band from Middlesborough, formed in 1978 and disbanding in 1980. Four friends got together in early 1978 and formed a punk rock band, and at this stage in their career they were called the Squelch Vaginas. They practiced for long hours in the drummer’s bedroom, but these practices soon turned into marathon drinking sessions. After several complaints a new rehearsal place had to be found. In mid 1978 they changed their name to Discharge and they played their first gig later that same month at the Wellington in Middlesbrough. This gig went tragically wrong for the band, but this experience did not deter the boys and they played their next gig a few days later at the Teesider in Stockton, supporting Basczax. Throughout the year they supported other local bands such as No Way, but due to a build up of such a hardcore group of supporters, most of the gigs were dogged with skirmishes with rival fans. The band carried on gigging locally with a few trips out of their area to Newcastle, York and Darlington. The first issue of infamous pop magazine “Smash Hits” did an article on the Teeside/Tyneside Punk scene which features a picture of the band, this exposure did the band no good as they split up in early 1980, but not before releasing this split 5 track EP with another local band The Filth. 500 copies were pressed and each band took 250 copies each. The Filths share did not have sleeves but the Discharge copies had hand numbered, two page wraparound sleeves. Read more on Last.fm. User-contributed text is available under the Creative Commons By-SA License; additional terms may apply.

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