No Comment (band)
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| Origin | Sherman Oaks, California |
| Genres | Powerviolence |
| Years active | 1987-1993 |
| Labels | Deep Six, Noise Patch, Slap-A-Ham, Snare Dance |
| Past members | Brent Jones Andrew Beattie Ralo Calzada Vince Simpson |
No Comment were an American hardcore punk and powerviolence band from Sherman Oaks, California. The band was active from 1987 to 1993. Originally,the bands name was Nothing Matters.[citation needed]
History
[edit]Along with other powerviolence bands such as Crossed Out, Capitalist Casualties and Man Is the Bastard, No Comment were influential in what was known to become the "West Coast powerviolence" scene for their aggressive musical and conceptual take on the hardcore punk genre. The band's vocalist, Andrew Beattie, confessed to liking both the metal and hardcore genres while hating the direction crossover bands such as Dirty Rotten Imbeciles and Discharge took, which combined the two styles. Beattie stated his band "just wanted to show that 'Hardcore' was still alive yet there was no real 'scene in the late 80s'."[1]
Break up
[edit]No Comment disbanded in 1993 and Beattie went on to pursue other music projects such as Man is the Bastard, Low Threat Profile, (with members of Infest), Dead Language (with members of Iron Lung and Walls) Dead Man's Life (with members of Life In A Burn Clinic, The Grim, Dead Lazlo's Place, For Sale, FYP, Co-Ed, La Motta, It's Casual, Revolution Mother and Buford). And most recently Bastard Collective with members of M.I.T.B.[citation needed] However some unreleased studio and live recordings were released after this time.[citation needed]
Legacy and influence
[edit]Powerviolence, according to Spazz bassist/vocalist, Chris Dodge, (who was behind the scene's main label Slap-a-Ham Records) peaked in the mid-1990s, around the time No Comment released their celebrated EP Downsided on Slap-a-Ham. XLR8R described Downsided as "a definitive document of powerviolence's beyond-tantrum aggression".[1]
Discography
[edit]- Common Senseless 7" (1989, Snare Dance)
- Downsided 7" (1992, Slap-A-Ham)
- No Comment 7" Demo re-release (1994, Noise Patch)
- 87-93 LP/CD (1999, Deep Six, Snare Dance)
- Live On KXLU 1992 7" (2013, Deep Six)
See also
[edit]References
[edit]- ^ a b What Is It? Powerviolence Archived 2008-09-26 at the Wayback Machine XLR8R, March 20, 2008. Retrieved: November 25, 2009.
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