Kill Your Idols
Kill Your Idols was an American hardcore punk band. She was one of the most important representatives of the New York hardcore scene of the last 10 years.
- 3.1 albums
- 3.2 EPs
History
In the early 1990s discovered the members independently the New York hardcore scene. Infected at concerts of Gorilla Biscuits, Circle Jerks, Bold or the Dead Kennedys, they were part of the scene. Especially Minor Threat had a great influence, and they began following the principles of the Straight Edge movement to live.
In early 1996, the foundation of the band was decided. In the beginning the band was a pure concert band, however, the five-member group could not live on their concerts alone and so the band members had to repeatedly take other jobs. Only in 2001 was the first record deal with SideOneDummy was signed. As a result, their independence and the Underground membership by some fans was doubted, then turn away from the band. However, be of Kill Your Idols tours with bands that do not represent their opinion, their principles, was still rejected, as has happened for example with Good Charlotte.
2006, there was a birthday show for the tenth anniversary of the band at CBGB. Friends and Websites, as Ensign, Inhuman, Two Man Advantage, Shell Shock and others shared with Kill Your Idols stage.
After the official farewell concert at the Smithtown Masonic Hall, New York was canceled on 13 May 2007 by the competent Sheriff's Department due to overcrowding in the short term, the band played their last gig right on the subsequently spontaneously in a parking lot in front of over 200 people.
Style
Kill Your Idols played original, fast, straight, energetic, rough hardcore, musically similar to Negative Approach.
Trivia
Her style has changed over the years at best marginal. Critics therefore accused them occasionally, they would really only play a single song. The musical proximity to Negative Approach was part of numerous reviews and comparisons and was picked up by the band's self-deprecating both in the song " Stop Comparing us to Negative Approach " and on an eponymous t-shirt ( the shirt graced next band lettering and -mentioned saying the scene internally popular Cover the first 7 "from NA).
Discography
Albums
- This Is Just The Beginning (1998, Blackout! Records)
- No Gimmicks Needed (2000, Blackout! Records)
- Funeral For A Feeling (2001, SideOneDummy Records)
- The Skinner Years (2003, Vicious Circle Records )
- From Companionship To Competition (2005, SideOneDummy Records)