Crucifix
| Crucifix | |
|---|---|
| General information | |
| origin | Berkeley (United States) |
| Genre (s) | Hardcore |
| founding | 1980 |
| resolution | 1984 |
| Founding members | |
singing |
Sothira Pheng |
guitar |
Jimmy Crucifix (1980-1983) |
bass |
Matt Borruso |
Drums |
Christopher Douglas |
| Last occupation | |
singing |
Sothira Pheng |
guitar |
Drew Bernstein (1984) |
bass |
Matt Borruso |
Drums |
Christopher Douglas |
| former members | |
bass |
Jake Smith (1983-1984) |
Crucifix ( English " crucifix ") was a hardcore punk band from the US American Berkeley . It was active from 1980 to 1984. The band members saw themselves as anarchists , and the band is classified as anarcho-punk .
Visually, Crucifix oriented with their Iroquois hairstyles on British punk. Musically, the music journalist and American hardcore producer Steven Blush counts it to the "essence" of California hardcore. The singer Sothira Pheng came from Cambodia , his family fled from the Khmer Rouge .
Since the 2000s, the band has occasionally got back together for individual concerts. Former guitarist Drew Bernstein, who had been a successful fashion designer since the mid-1980s, died of suicide in 2005.
Discography
- 1981: Crucifix ( EP , Universal Records)
- 1983: Dehumanization (Corpus Christi Records)
- 1997: Exhibit A ( compilation album , Kustomized Records)
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Steven Blush: American Hardcore. A tribal history . 2nd Edition. Feral House, Port Townsend 2010, ISBN 978-0-922915-71-2 , pp. 128 .
- ↑ LAWeekly.com: RIP Drew Bernstein, Freak Fashion Pioneer. Retrieved August 22, 2019 .