Heresy

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Heresy
General information
origin Nottingham (United Kingdom)
Genre (s) Hardcore , grindcore
founding 1983 as a plasmid
resolution 1988
Last occupation
singing
 John March
guitar
 Steven Ballam
bass
 Calvin "Kalv" Piper
Drums
 Steve Charlesworth
former members
guitar
 Mitch Dickinson
Guitar, vocals
 Malcolm "Reevsey" Reeves

Heresy ( English heresy ) was an English hardcore band. Along with Napalm Death and Extreme Noise Terror, she is one of the pioneers of the British grindcore scene.

Band history

The band was founded in 1983 by Timothy Garner (bass), Malcolm "Reevsey" Reeves (vocals, guitar) and his cousin Steve Charlesworth (drums) in Nottingham under the name Plasmid . After the release of a demo , Garner was replaced by Kalv Piper, the band renamed themselves Heresy and changed their style to extremely fast hardcore punk based on the American Siege . In September 1985, the trio in Nottingham played a six titles as EP Never Healed in an edition of 3,000 pieces in the DIY - record label appeared from Reevsey and Digby Pearson. The word was on the EP Earache printed ( ger .: earache), which a short time later, the name of Pearson's record label was: Earache Records . Like other hardcore bands, Heresy performed at the Birmingham Club Mermaid and a friendly rivalry developed between Steve Charlesworth and Mick Harris of Napalm Death in trying to outdo each other in the speed of their drumming. Digby Pearson had in the meantime officially established Earache Records and offered Heresy early 1986 a contract for a split - LP with the anarcho-punks Concrete Sox on. The first recordings took place in May 1986 at the Rich Bitch Studio in Birmingham .

A little later, John March became the group's singer. With this line-up, Heresy went on tour through Germany in the autumn of 1986 as the opening act for SNFU . After another tour with Government Issue through the Netherlands and Belgium , the group returned to England and John March recorded the vocals for the split LP again. Shortly before their release in early 1987, founding member Reevsey left the band and was replaced by Mitch Dickinson of Unseen Terror . With this line-up, Heresy played the first peel session and recorded an EP limited to 700 copies for Limited Edition Records , which was sold out within a few weeks. Dickinson left Heresy in the fall of 1987 for personal reasons and was replaced by Steven "Baz" Ballam. With this line-up, a European tour followed as the opening act for Chumbawamba . After Heresy split from their Earache label in mid-1987, the group released their records on the DIY label In Your Face founded by singer John March and bassist Kalv Piper . In January 1988, Heresy recorded the album Face Up to It , which reached number 13 on the UK Indie Charts . Despite this success, the group was so dissatisfied with the sound of the album that they took a break from April 1988. Several appearances followed in October before Ballam announced that he would leave Heresy. The band's last live performance was on December 14, 1988 in Leeds . Despite the official breakup, the group recorded an EP in late December, which was released in February 1989 under the title Whose Generation? appeared. Heresy also played a third session in early 1989 on the British radio host John Peel's show, which appeared a little later as the compilation 13 Rocking Anthems .

Discography

  • 1985: Never Healed ( EP , Earache Records )
  • 1987: Concrete Sox / Heresy ( split album, Earache Records)
  • 1987: Thanks! (EP, Limited Edition Records)
  • 1988: Face Up To It! (In Your Face)
  • 1989: Whose Generation? (EP, In Your Face)
  • 1989: 13 Rocking Anthems (In Your Face)

literature

  • Ian Glasper: Trapped in a Scene - UK Hardcore 1985-1989 . Cherry Red Books, 2009, ISBN 978-1-901447-61-3 , pp. 83-92 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Albert Mudrian: Choosing Death: The Incredible Story of Death Metal & Grindcore . IP Verlag, Berlin 2006, ISBN 978-3-931624-35-4 , pp. 22 .
  2. ↑ Albert Mudrian: Choosing Death: The Incredible Story of Death Metal & Grindcore . IP Verlag, Berlin 2006, ISBN 978-3-931624-35-4 , pp. 28 .
  3. ↑ Barry Lazell: Indie Hits 1980-1989 "H". Cherry Red Books, archived from the original on February 12, 2008 ; accessed on January 22, 2011 (English).