Antidote (hardcore band)
| Antidotes | |
|---|---|
| General information | |
| origin | New York (United States) |
| Genre (s) | Hardcore |
| founding | 1983, 1988, 2008 |
| resolution | 1986, 1992 |
| Founding members | |
singing |
"T" (until 1983) |
guitar |
Robert "Nunzio" Ortiz |
bass |
Tommy Victor (until 1986) |
Drums |
Joseph "Arthur Googy" McGuckin (until 1986) |
| Current occupation | |
singing |
Drew Stone (since 1984) |
guitar |
Robert Ortiz |
bass |
Neal "Zum" (since 2008) |
bass |
Tristan Michael |
Drums |
"REA" (since 2008) |
| former members | |
singing |
Louie Rivera (1983-1984) |
guitar |
Jimmy Garcia (1988-1992) |
bass |
"Robbi Conti" (1988–1992) |
Drums |
Chris Praz (1988-1992) |
Antidote was a band from the first wave of New York Hardcore and is considered to be one of the most important representatives of this genre. After several breakups, the band has been active again since 2008.
history
Antidote was part of the NYHC's first wave when it was founded in 1983. The band was founded by guitarist Robert Ortiz and bassist Tommy Victor , who met at a Bad Brains concert and shared an apartment in the East Village . The first line-up included drummer Joseph McGuckin, who had previously played with the Misfits and was kicked out there in 1982, and a graffiti artist named "T". The latter was replaced by the bouncer and Bad Brains Roadie Louie Rivera before the first EP was recorded . Rivera and McGuckin were Hare Krishna followers, which was not uncommon in the straight-edge hardcore scene at the time. The EP Thou Shalt Not Kill was released in the same year following the DIY motto of the hardcore scene on the label Antidote Records, which was founded especially for this purpose; The producer was Jerry Williams, owner of the A7 Club, a center of New York's young hardcore scene. In 1984 Rivera left the band after an argument with McGuckin and was replaced by Drew Stone. In 1986, Antidote dissolved.
In the late 1980s, Ortiz reformed the band with a completely new line-up except for singer Stone, including a second guitarist. The musical style also changed, the music had clear Speed Metal influences, and the band had taken on a metal-compatible clothing style and had long hair. In 1992 the band broke up again.
In 2008 Stone and Ortiz reformed the band with a new bass player and new drummer to play on a reunion show of the former A7 club in the Knitting Factory . Due to positive feedback, the band stayed. In 2014 Antidote played at the Ieperfest in Belgium, which was her first appearance in Europe. The bassists "Zum" and Tristan Michael take turns playing in the band. At the beginning of 2016, singer Stone said he didn't think Antidote would record new songs again, but the band would continue to give concerts sporadically.
Singer Drew Stone began a career as a filmmaker in the 2000s, shot music videos for Agnostic Front , Biohazard , Onyx , Run DMC and Type O Negative and draws a.o. a. responsible for the documentary All Ages: The Boston Hardcore Film . First singer Louie Rivera moved to Atlanta and worked with local hardcore bands there. Drummer McGuckin released a single under the name "The Noise" on the German label Rookie Records in 2014 together with Brian Goss, who had played for Warzone in the 1980s . Bassist Victor, who went by the name "Brian" on the first EP, founded Prong in 1986 and played for Danzig in the 1990s .
Style and meaning
The music journalist Matthias Mader describes the band's music as "rough, hard, fast (and) without the slightest hint of compromise"; the singing of singer Rivera reminds of the early Ray Cappo ( Youth of Today ). Antidote is "a prime example of how New York sounded in 1983". For his part, Cappo names Rivera as his role model when it comes to singing. The music journalist Steven Blush describes the band as the "idols" of the regular visitors to the CBGB Club. The online magazine Dying Scene found that while Antidote had prominent members with Joseph McGuckin as drummer and John Joseph as background singer, it was a band that "was important because of their music and not because of the types of scene that played in it." The online magazine No Echo described Antidote's 1980s music as "a mixture of vicious, fast-paced songs with dynamic breaks, filtered through heavy metal influences" and found the band set the bar for subsequent bands at NYHC . In an analysis of the political positioning of the NYHC scene, the online magazine Cvltnation stated that antidotes were an essential factor in the development of the sound typical of the NYHC by making the music slower and the breaks more concise. The magazine stated that the lyrics of the band were partially anti-immigrant, although two Puerto Ricans were represented in the line-up of the early 1980s with Rivera and Ortiz, which is quite typical for the NYHC. Dave Scott from Adrenalin OD described Antidote in an interview as "one of the most important bands on the New York scene" and judged the EP Thou Shalt Not Kill for having "a great sound, great recordings and great guitar playing". Bold singer Matt Warnke called the EP "the sickest, most perfect eruption of hardcore ever created".
Discography
- 1983: Thou Shalt Not Kill (EP, Antidote Records)
- 1990: Return 2 Burn (Metropolis Records)
- 1992: Viva Los Pendejos (Active Records)
- 2004: The A7 and Beyond (split album with The High and the Mighty, Grand Theft Audio)
- 2012: No Peace in Our Time (Bridge Nine Records)
- 2017: The Rock Years ( Compilation Album , Old School Metal Records)
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b Tony Rettman: New York Hardcore from 1980 to 1990 . 2nd Edition. Bazillion Points, New York 2015, ISBN 978-1-935950-12-7 , pp. 187 .
- ↑ Idioteq.com: Antidote premieres new track! Retrieved December 12, 2018 .
- ^ A b Steven Blush: American Hardcore. A tribal history . 2nd Edition. Feral House, Port Townsend 2010, ISBN 978-0-922915-71-2 , pp. 208 .
- ↑ AwayFromLife.com: The New York Hardcore Chronicles - Interview with (sic) filmmaker Drew Stone. Retrieved October 5, 2016 .
- ^ Matthias Mader: New York City Hardcore - The Way It Was ... IP Verlag, Berlin 2011, ISBN 978-3-931624-10-1 , pp. 49 .
- ↑ a b NoEcho.net: Louie Rivera (Antidote). Retrieved September 30, 2016 .
- ↑ DyingScene.com: Antidote. Retrieved September 27, 2016 .
- ↑ Cvltnation.com: Social Unrest in the 80's New York Hardcore scene. Retrieved October 1, 2016 .