Amoeba Music

By Amoeba Staff

Bad Religion originated as a group of teenagers playing thrash-punk in LA’s early hardcore scene. On the 1988 album Suffer, the band introduced the sound fanzine writers used to call “melodic hardcore” – sweet melodies and vocal harmonies over speedy punk tunes – that has come to be identified with a certain style of commercial California punk. Though Bad Religion’s name and logo (a crossed-out cross) announced the band as explicitly anti-Christian and anti-religious, singer Greg Graffin decries human folly in a verbose rhetorical style that comes straight out of the American pulpit.

Greg Graffin, Brett Gurewitz and Jay Bentley all attended El... Read More

Genre:

Rock, Punk

City Of Origin:

San Fernando Valley, ,California United States

Formed Date:

1979