SSD (tape)

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SSD
SSD logo.png
General information
origin Boston (USA)
Genre (s) Hardcore , straight edge , (initially) crossover , hard rock (later)
founding 1981 as SS Decontrol
resolution 1985
Last occupation
singing
 David "Springa" Spring
guitar
 Al "Lethal" Barile
guitar
 Francois Levesque
bass
 James Sciarappa
Drums
 Chris Foley

SSD was an American hardcore band from Boston , Massachusetts that was founded in 1981 under the name SS Decontrol , short for Society System Decontrol , and disbanded in 1985.

history

initial band logo

The band was formed in 1981 under the name Society System Decontrol . Drummer Chris Foley, bassist James Sciarappa and guitarist Al "Lethal" Barile met at a concert in a Boston club. After the concert they went to Sciarappa's garage, played music together and decided to start a band. It was named after the song Decontrol by Discharge . A little later, the band went to a small studio with singer David "Springa" Spring to make the first recordings, whereupon the demo How Much Art appeared shortly afterwards . In 1982 the debut album The Kids Will Have Their Say followed on the band's own label XClaim! Records , while Dischord Records took over the distribution. The release was followed by appearances outside of Boston for the first time, including a concert in Washington, DC with Void , Black Market Baby , Iron Cross and Artificial Peace . This was followed by appearances at the New York Club A7 and SSD played there with the Bad Brains, among others . In 1983, the EP Get It Away followed via XClaim !, whereby the sound carrier, like the debut album, was limited to 1000 copies in the first edition. In the same year Francoise Levesque joined the band as the second guitarist. In 1984 the band switched to the Modern Method Records label , although guitarist Barile had described the label as a "foreign body" two years earlier. The band then only used the abbreviation "SSD" and released the album How We Rock in the same year . After moving to Homestead Records , the next album, Break It Up, followed in November 1985 . After performing together with Jerry's Kids in April 1985 , the band announced their breakup and declared the hardcore scene to be dead. The band had already moved stylistically away from hardcore punk for several years. In 1992, after the breakup, the compilation Power über Taang! Records that contained rare or unreleased demo recordings. After the breakup, Sciarappa joined Slapshot while Spring moved to Chicago , briefly formed the band Razor Cane and then began studying theater studies.

style

According to Matthias Mader in his book This Is Boston… Not New York. A hardcore punk encyclopedia reported the fanzine Suburban Voice that the band was one of the pillars of the hardcore genre in America. According to Jon Anastas from Slapshot , all influential bands emerged from the road crew or friends of the group. According to Mader, the album The Kids Will Have Their Say was heavily influenced by groups like Discharge and Blitz . The mostly fast-played songs were a blueprint for the later straight-edge movement. Youth of Today in particular made extensive use of the texts from SSD. According to the band, however, the group does not take the straight edge idea so closely and does not always adhere to sexual abstinence, anti-alcoholism and non-smoking. The album Get It Away is the last pure hardcore punk production of the group before it slipped into hard rock . The stylistic change is also noticeable through the name change from SS Decontrol to SSD and the redesign of the band logo, which has been trimmed to metal . The cover of the album was based on Judas Priests' Point of Entry and for the backsleeve on For Those About to Rock (We Salute You) by AC / DC . In addition, the otherwise common punk pseudonyms were no longer used, but the real names of the band members. The band was heavily influenced on the album by the speed metal movement that was emerging at the time . According to Mader, the songs are no more metallic than the works of Crumbsuckers and Leeway . The album is a "Speed ​​Metal disc with slight HC influences". Break It Up, on the other hand, is "[really] boring 70s hard rock with a glam hit". According to Spring, the band was influenced by groups like AC / DC, Cheap Trick , Discharge, GBH and occasionally T. Rex at that time. Brian Cogan also counted the band in his Encyclopedia of Punk Music and Culture as one of the pioneers of the Boston straight-edge and hardcore punk scene. The band had a fan group of about 20 members, who could be recognized by their shaved heads, their strict straight-edge guidelines and their aggressive demeanor in the mosh pit .

Discography

as SS Decontrol
  • 1981: How Much Art (demo, self-published)
  • 1982: The Kids Will Have Their Say ( XClaim! Records )
  • 1983: Get It Away ( EP , XClaim!)
as an SSD

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d Chris True: SSD. Allmusic , accessed February 22, 2014 .
  2. ^ A b Brian Cogan: Encyclopedia of Punk Music and Culture . Greenwood Press, Westport, Connecticut 2006, ISBN 0-313-33340-8 , pp. 215 f .
  3. ↑ OldTimeHardcore.com: Biography. Retrieved February 23, 2018 .
  4. ^ A b Matthias Mader: This Is Boston ... Not New York. A hardcore punk encyclopedia . 3. Edition. IP Verlag / Jeske Mader GbR, Berlin 2010, ISBN 3-931624-19-6 , p. 127 ff .