Void (band)

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Void
General information
origin Columbia , United States
Genre (s) Hardcore punk
founding 1980
resolution 1984
Founding members
singing
 John Weiffenbach
guitar
 Jon "Bubba" Dupree
bass
 Chris Stover
Drums
 Sean Finnegan († 2008)

Void was an early DC hardcore attributed hardcore band from Columbia .

history

The band was founded in 1980 after the later members befriended their members after a concert by The Teen Idles in Baltimore and subsequently attended numerous hardcore concerts in Washington. In November 1981 they recorded a demo cassette with 20 tracks at Hit and Run Studios in Baltimore. Through the Teen Idles, Stover and Finnegan met Ian MacKaye , who ran the Dischord label. In February 1982 Dischord pressed three of the band's tracks onto the genre-defining sampler Flex Your Head . Dischord also released a split album with The Faith in September 1982 . From 1983 Void began to incorporate Metal influences into their music - several years before this became a general development in American hardcore. In April 1983 Void headlined a concert at the CBGB in New York, where singer Weiffenbach broke his foot after jumping from an amplifier after just one minute. In the summer of 1983, the band recorded an album for the Detroit- based label Touch and Go Records , which was never released because the label was too metal-heavy at the time of recording and the band later no longer agreed to a release. In 1984 Void disbanded.

The 1981 demo cassette was released as an EP in 1992 by the Ocean City minilabel Eye 95 Records . In 2006 the band was featured with a title on the soundtrack of the film American Hardcore . In 2011, Greg Anderson of the Southern Lord record label approached Stover and Dupree to propose the release of a Void discography. The two discussed the proposal with Ian MacKaye, who in turn signaled interest in the publication, so that Dischord finally released a compilation album with previously unreleased titles by the band. In 2015, Void was featured prominently in the documentary Salad Days: A Decade of Punk in Washington, DC (1980-90) by filmmaker Scott Crawford.

Guitarist Dupree later played guitar for Soundgarden and Moby . Drummer Finnegan worked as a technician on the set of the television series The Wire and died in 2008 at the age of 43 of a heart attack.

style

Void came from a small town between Baltimore and Washington and was therefore not part of the hard core of the DC hardcore scene. Musically she deviated from the classic DC sound and, unlike her straight edge label colleagues, experimented a lot with drugs, which affected her sound. Guitarist Dupree contributed through his appearance (he is half black and half Filippino) to the exotic status of the band within the white-dominated hardcore scene. The weekly magazine Washington City Paper highlights the importance of Void as one of the first bands to mix hardcore and metal to the later popular crossover sound. The band itself cites Motörhead , Iron Maiden , Black Sabbath and the early Ted Nugent as influences for this development . In a review of the 2011 compilation Sessions 1981-83 , the Washington City Paper retrospectively described the contributions on the Flex Your Head sampler as "wonderfully disturbed" and "sonic chaos", and certified the band in principle as having "strange, suburban humor" and stated that Void captured the spirit of DC Hardcore even more than Minor Threat or The Faith. In his hardcore anthology American Hardcore: A Tribal History, Steven Blush described Void's music as "fast-paced, guitar-heavy noise" that explores the limits of hardcore, and acknowledged the band's pioneering role as the first metal crossover band. Negative Approach's John Brannon described the band as "totally out of control" and the split album with The Faith as a "classic of the time". Cvltnation magazine judged the band's sound that they sounded like they were “constantly on the verge of collapse” and found their influence on the hardcore scene: “Their artistic aesthetic predated the black metal scene and they laid the foundation for post-hardcore before hardcore was even hardcore. And they were always on LSD. ”(German:“ Their artistic aesthetic anticipated the black metal scene, and they laid the foundation for post-hardcore before hardcore was even hardcore. And they were always on LSD . ”) The Music journalists Mark Andersen and Mark Jenkins, along with Scream, refer to Void as the two best-known early suburban hardcore bands in Washington. Bruce Pavitt of sub-pop fanzine wrote that the void part of the split LP with The Faith was "one of the most expressive records I have ever heard."

Discography

  • 1982: Split album with The Faith ( Dischord Records )
  • 1992: Condensed Flesh (7 "-EP, Eye 95 Records, posthumous)
  • 2011: Sessions 1981-83 (compilation, Dischord)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Vice.com: Bad Dreams and Torn Ligaments: An Interview with Void's Chris Stover. Retrieved March 23, 2016 .
  2. ↑ a b WashingtonCityPaper.com: Two classic DC hardcore bands empty their vaults. Retrieved March 22, 2016 .
  3. ^ A b WashingtonCityPaper.com: Void Discusses Emptying the Vaults, Being Punk-Rock in Columbia. Retrieved March 21, 2016 .
  4. ↑ Billboard.com: Salad Days, Washington DC Hardcore Doc, Gets Hometown Premiere. Retrieved March 23, 2016 .
  5. ^ Punknews.org: Void drummer Sean Finnegan (1965-2008). Retrieved March 23, 2016 .
  6. ^ A b Steven Blush: American Hardcore. A tribal history . 2nd Edition. Feral House, Port Townsend 2010, ISBN 978-0-922915-71-2 , pp. 167 .
  7. ↑ Cvltnation.com: Flesh on Barbed Wire: Void. (No longer available online.) Archived from the original on April 3, 2016 ; accessed on March 23, 2016 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.cvltnation.com
  8. ↑ Mark Andersen, Mark Jenkins: Punk, DC . 1st edition. Ventil Verlag, Mainz 2006, ISBN 3-931555-86-0 , p. 97 .
  9. ↑ Mark Andersen, Mark Jenkins: Punk, DC. 2006, p. 138.