Amoeba Music

“TAKE THE KINGDOM OF HEAVEN BY STORM; Ulysses articulates what you feel, yet fear to speak. . .” Though singer Ian Svenonius’s fevered revolutionary rhetoric often seemed to be a way of speaking that appealed to him rather than a means to an end, Washington, DC punks Nation of Ulysses always presented their band as a militant left-wing sect committed to the transformation of the social world. Dischord Records’ site does not describe N.O.U. as a band at all, but as “a violent separatist political party and terrorist group operating out of Washington, DC in the early 1990s,” just as N.O.U. referred to their zine Ulysses Speaks as “The Party Organ For The Nation of Ulysses.” Some points of the revolutionary... Read More

Genre:

Rock, Alternative/Indie, Punk

City Of Origin:

Washington, D.C., United States

Formed Date:

1988