Elgin James founder of Friends Stand United gang

Elgin James

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Elgin James was the founder of the Friends Stand United crew, also known as FSU (which originally stood for "fuck shit up"). Elgin James is a filmmaker and a musician. During the late 1980s in Boston, Massachusetts, Elgin disagreed with the nationalist, right-wing, third movement, and conservative working class political direction of the punk rock and hard core music movement. He formed Friends Stand United to attack, beat, and purge from concerts groups which he disagreed with politically, especially white power skinheads and other various racist gangs. Friends Stand United's initial mission was to use violence to cleanse the punk community of gangs with racist beliefs and take over the punk rock community.

10 Best Original Punk Bands

1. Dead Kennedys

Dead Kennedys

Dead Kennedys are an American punk rock band, formed in San Francisco, California in 1978. Pioneers of hardcore during the 1980s, the band gained a large underground following in the international punk music scene. Their music mixed the more experimental elements of British 1970s punk with the raw energy of the 1980s American hardcore punk scene. Dead Kennedys' songs mixed deliberately shocking lyrics with satirical and sarcastic criticism of social and political issues of the Reagan era.

In the late 1980s, the band was embroiled in an obscenity trial in the US over the artwork of their 1985 album, Frankenchrist, which included the explicit titular subject of H. R. Giger's Penis Landscape. The band was charged with distribution of harmful matter to minors, but the trial ended with a hung jury. Dead Kennedys released five studio albums before officially disbanding in 1986. In 2001, the band reformed without original singer Jello Biafra, who had been in a legal dispute with the other members over royalties. The band will play three dates in October 2010. Biafra has gone on to be a spoken word performer, covering political topics in particular, since the dissolution of Dead Kennedys.

Iron Maiden - Heavy Metal Legends in the Making

Iron Maiden

Many bands have worshiped at the foot of Iron Maiden. Such is the staying power of the band that more than 3 decades after its inception, it continues to move albums off shelves to reach platinum and gold status.

The group has sold over 75 million records, has been inducted into the Hollywood RockWalk, and has been hailed as one of the most influential rock bands in music history. The band has also been prominently featured in films, video games and songs by other groups, all in acknowledgment of its musical influence. Indeed, Iron Maiden is a legend in the making, if the band is not already one.

What is Thrash Metal?

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Thrash metal is an extreme subgenre of heavy metal that is characterized by its fast tempo and aggression. Thrash metal songs typically use fast, percussive and low-register guitar riffs, overlaid with shredding-style lead work. Thrash metal lyrics often deal with social issues using direct and denunciatory language, an approach which partially overlaps with the hardcore genre. The "Big Four" bands of thrash metal are Anthrax, Megadeth, Metallica and Slayer, who simultaneously created and popularized the genre in the early 1980s.

The origins of thrash metal are generally traced to the late 1970s and early 1980s, when a number of bands began incorporating the sound of the New Wave of British Heavy Metal, creating a new genre and developing into a separate movement from punk rock and hardcore. This genre is more aggressive compared to its relative, speed metal, and can be seen in part to be a reaction to the lighter, more widely acceptable sounds and themes of glam metal.