WikiPunk: D-beat

Tuesday, August 25, 2015

Anti Cimex

Anti Cimex were a Swedish hardcore punk band, based in Skövde, Göteborg, Linköping, and Malmö, at different times, that formed in 1981. They were one of the first bands to define Scandinavian hardcore punk. Their second 7", Raped Ass, is considered to be a subgenre-defining D-beat record. Scene historian Peter Jandreus describes the group as the most famous Swedish punk band of the 1977–87 era.

Their name is taken from the Swedish pest control company with the same name, the name of this company, in turn, comes from the Latin name of a particular type of bedbug; Cimex.

Formed in 1981, the original line-up was: Jonsson - Bass, Nillen - Vocals, Charlie - Drums, Jocke - Guitar. After rehearsing for a while, they released their first 7" EP Anarkist Attack. In 1982 they kicked out Nillen. Jonsson took over the vocals part, and Conrad took over the bass playing. The next 7" EP, called Raped Ass, was released in 1983. This work is considered one of the most severe in the history of hardcore. In 1984 they released another 7" EP, Victims Of A Bomb Raid. In 1986 they released a mini-Lp called Criminal Trap. (This 12" is also included as a bonus on the Absolut Country of Sweden CD). At this time Jocke had got tired of the band and they asked Cliff if he wanted to join the band but he said no, and the rest of the band members got tired of the problems and it resulted in the band splitting up.

In 1990 they decided to start the band again after Cliff had agreed to join, and they say that its thanks to him that they regrouped. They released the comeback album Absolut Country Of Sweden the same year, . In 1993 they released a raw live album Made In Sweden. The show was also shot on video but never released. They later released a new live 7" single Fucked In Finland and later on they released the album Scandinavian Jawbreaker. After the release of this album the band split up and the members started in other bands such as Driller Killer (Cliff), and Wolfpack (Jonsson)

In 2005 Dead City records released the A Tribute To Anti-Cimex LP, featuring a line-up of D-beat and Crust bands from all over the world that were influenced by Anti-Cimex. Notable bands include Disclose (Japan), Wolfbrigade (Sweden), Ratos de Porão (Brazil), Doom (UK), and many more.

Source: Wikipedia

Anti Cimex Discography

Discharge

A long-lived British hardcore band cited as a key influenced by artists including Metallica and Anthrax. Discharge was formed in 1977 by singer Terry "Tez" Roberts, his twin brother and guitarist Tony "Bones" Roberts, bassist Roy "Rainy" Wainwright, and drummer Hacko. New frontman Cal was recruited as the decade drew to its close, with Tezmoving to drums as a replacement for the exiting Hacko. The first band signed to the newly formed Clay Records label, Discharge issued their debut EP, Realities of War, in March of 1980, followed later that year by two more EPs, Fight Backand Decontrol. Tez left the lineup soon after, and after recording the Why 12" with temporary drummer Bambi, Discharge named Garry Maloney their permanent skinsman in time to record 1981's Never Again, which reached the number 64 spot on the U.K. pop charts.

In 1982, Discharge finally issued their long-awaited full-length debut Hear Nothing, See Nothing, Say Nothing, which reached the Top 40; a U.S. tour followed, and upon returning home, the group recorded a new single, "State Violence, State Control." Bones then left to form his own unit, Broken Bones, and was replaced by guitarist Peter "Pooch" Pyrtle for the EP Warning: Her Majesty's Government Can Seriously Damage Your Health. In the wake of another 7", "The More I See," both Pyrtle and Maloney departed; the singles collection Never Again followed in 1984, and with new guitarist Les "The Mole" Hunt and drummer Nick Haymaker, Discharge released "Ignorance" a year later. Maloney returned to the fold for the 1986 LP Grave New World, which also featured new guitarist Stephen Brooks, this album would firmly take the band into more heavy metal territory, leaving a lot of their old hardcore fans behind.

Wainwright was the next to go, and Discharge spent the next several years in limbo, occasionally releasing live material from their heyday. Finally, in 1991 the group returned with a new album, Massacre Divine, followed by Shooting Up the World. By 1997, the classic lineup of Cal, Bones, Rainy, and Tez had re-formed; around that same time, a tribute album titled Discharged celebrated the band's continuing influence. Similarly, Metallica's 1998 collection Garage, Inc. featured two Discharge covers -- "Free Speech for the Dumb" and "The More I See." Time would go by before the group made any new music, but in 2002 they released an eponymous album featuring the original lineup.

The classic Discharge sound influenced a whole genre of hardcore punk, known as crust punk, or d-beat, named for the distinctive drum beat, guitar interplay. Many bands since have taken to adding "Dis" to the start of their monikers in honour of the legendary band, including the likes of Disfear, Disorder, Disrupt, Disclose and many hundreds of others.

The band exist today with Rat from Varukers on vocals.

Biography by Jason Ankeny

Discharge Discography

About WikiPunk

I've been a big fan of Wikipedia since it's launch in 2001. I've spent many hours scrolling through it's pages, hopping from link to link, surfing as they say, starting at one random point and oftentimes ending up somewhere completely different.

The bulk of the time I've burrowed through Wikipedia's pages I've been looking at either music related material, or historical events. Of course, as with everything else on the internet you have to take what you read with a pinch, further research is compulsory if wanting to get a more rounded truth on the matter, Wikipedia is actually banned as source material at my college. But still, it's always been a good place to start for quick, easy information, if not always one hundred percent acurate.

Wikipedia's most charming charactertic for me was just that however, the fact that it was for everyone, by everyone, just like my beloved punk rock. Anyone could add to the ever growing online encyclopedia, I myself wrote biographies for some of my old bands and published them there. But alas, that seems to have changed...

A while back I thought it would be fun to publish a page for one of my current bands but to my horror, was basically told that we weren't commerical/succesful/big/co-ol enough. I get that maybe the site is now so big that they're trying to stay away from users blatantly using it as a place to plug products, but still, the criteria for publishing a page about a band was nothing short of shocking. You had to be on a major label or have at least two records released on one of the "respected indie labels", whatever the fuck they are?! And that was just the tip of it. A list of other demands I can't be arsed listing all of a sudden stood in my way.

So with that, I thought I would create a new little pocket of the world wide web dedicated to gathering information about bands and artists from the underground. The main driving force behind the idea is the unashamed trainspotter/geek in me, and if it's only ever myself that uses it then it will still afford me hours of amusement, much akin to the rather huge spreadsheet-formatted catalogue of my record collection that I built over the space of a couple of years.

The idea is simple; to create my own version of Wikipedia dedicated to underground music. WikiPunk. Punk being that most of the information I will be adding will be the very genre of music I've been involved in personally for the last twenty years, but all artists, labels, zines that are "doing it themselves" are welcome to add a page. "Respected indie labels" indeed? What fucking use is that to me or anyone else who cares? If there's a band in Amsterdam, or Syracuse, or Wellington that has just released their first tape and played only a handful of shows, I'd still like the chance to stumble across them and find out their story. Of course, a lot of artists use bandcamp and other social media sites to spread their word but that's all very individual, my idea here is to create and inclusive encyclopedia.

In the shards of spare time I have I will copy and paste biographies of artists from where I find them, using oficial information if it exists. On top of that I'll add a couple of images if available, as well as a discography/members section. I welcome absolutely anyone to contribute by simply sending me their story, simply mail me via the contact form below and I'll get back to you, and if nobody does then I'll just build it up slowly over time, purely for my own amusement.