• Detestation: S/T 12"

Havoc Records

Coming Soon! (ETA : Early Jan 2025)

The 1990s was a decade where conformist consumerism triumphed on a global scale, the "greed is good" mentality of the Reagan/Thatcher "revolution from above" cemented a neoliberal world order were the only thing that mattered was transferring more money and power from the middle and working classes to the rich. There were few voices of protest in reaction to this fundamental shift in political economy. A few came from academia, but some of the most strident came from the hardcore punk underground. A generation of young punk rockers had grown up filled with enthusiasm for change espoused by the original punk and hardcore pioneers of the 70s and '80s. As those pioneers moved on to more commercial or artistic pursuits a die-hard group took their proselytizing at face value and founded a truly underground DIY hardcore movement. The result was a countercultural outpouring of protest and rebellion that refused to be commodified or exploited. At the same time, this younger generation took the hardcore punk sounds of the '80s and infused them with speed, power, and a passion for protest and radical change that propelled the genre throughout the 1990s.