Necros
| Necros | |
|---|---|
| General information | |
| Genre (s) | Hardcore |
| founding | 1979 |
| resolution | 1987 |
| Founding members | |
singing |
Barry Henssler |
guitar |
Andy Wendler |
Drums |
Todd Swalla |
| former members | |
bass |
Corey Rusk |
Guitar, bass |
Brian Pollack |
bass |
Ron Sakowski |
bass |
Jeff Allsop (initial phase) |
bass |
Donny Brook (initial phase) |
bass |
David Cooke (initial phase) |
bass |
Brian Hyland (initial stage) |
bass |
Jeff Lake (initial stage) |
The Necros were an American hardcore band from Maumee , Ohio. They had some influence within the Detroit hardcore scene and were the first band to release on Touch and Go Records .
history
The band was founded in 1979 by Barry Henssler, Todd Swalla and Andy Wendler, all of whom were teenagers at the time. After half a dozen short-term bassists, Corey Rusk joined the band as a permanent member. Henssler was the editor of a fanzine called Smegma Journal . It was through this that Tesco Vee and Dave Stimson, editors of Touch and Go magazine, became aware of the band and a friendship developed. Vee and Stimson founded Touch and Go Rekords (still spelled with a "K" when it was founded) to release the Necros' first EP, Sex Drive . The first edition was 100 copies. Wendler left the band in 1981 and was replaced by Brian Pollack. In this line-up, the EP IQ32 was recorded, which was produced by Ian MacKaye and released jointly by Touch and Go and MacKaye's label Dischord Records . Necros bassist Rusk was now the second Touch and Go managing director alongside Vee and took over the label completely in 1983 when Vee moved to Washington DC. Wendler rejoined the band at the end of 1982, and the first full album Conquest for Death and a single of the same name were released. In 1983 Rusk left the band to take care of his label exclusively. His successor on bass was Ron Sakowski. In the following years there was a dispute between the band and Rusk. In an interview with One Solution -Fanzine, Henssler said that the large gap to the next Necros release was due to unclear statements by Rusk about the Necros' whereabouts on Touch and Go. Touch and Go, however, subsequently deleted the Necros releases from its catalog of releases. The next release in 1985 was a split 12 "with White Flag, followed by the LP Tangled Up . In 1987 the band split up after a joint tour with Megadeth . The reason for this was a legal battle between Rusk and the other members over the old one Material recorded under Touch and Go.
After the Necros broke up, Henssler formed the band Big Chief. Swalla and Sakowski joined the Laughing Hyenas lineup in the mid-1990s; Since 2006 Sakowski has been playing with the newly formed Negative Approach . Wendler played in a group called Gone In Sixty Seconds. Rusk is still the managing director of Touch and Go Records.
style
The Necros stand for classic hardcore in the style of Black Flag or Minor Threat and are style-defining for the Ohio / Michigan area. The first EP Sex Drive still contains clear influences from punk. The last LP Tangled Up is more of the hard rock genre. According to Brian Cogan's Encyclopedia of Punk Music and Metal , the band played classic hardcore punk, although the metal influences would have increased significantly with later releases.
Discography
Albums
- 1983: Conquest for Death (LP, Touch and Go)
- 1986: Tangled Up (LP, Restless)
- 2005: Tangled Up / Live Or Else (CD, Rykodisc ) posthumously
Singles, EPs, splits, miscellaneous
- 1981: Sex Drive (EP, Touch and Go)
- 1981: IQ32 (EP, Dischord / Touch and Go)
- 1983: Conquest for Death (7 ", Touch and Go)
- 1985: Jail Jello (Split-12 "with White Flag , Gasatanka)
- 1986: Tangled Up (7 ", Gasatanka)
- 1990: Live Or Else (Audiocassette, Medusa / Enigma) live album, published posthumously
- 2002: Split-10 "with Authority Abuse (Wise Hoodlum) (live recordings from 1981–1983)
Web links
Individual evidence
- ^ Touch and Go Records
- ^ A b Brian Cogan: Encyclopedia of Punk Music and Culture . Greenwood Press, Westport, Connecticut 2006, ISBN 0-313-33340-8 , pp. 136 .