The Greenery is a band from Long Beach, California. They released their debut album Spit and Argue on July 24 via Prosthetic Records. I haven’t heard the whole thing, just three songs, two of which have already been turned into music videos. Those three songs are refreshing, that is, if you find it refreshing to be sucker-punched in the gut and then kicked in the head with steel-toed boots while you’re writhing on the floor.
The Greenery play in-your-face, old-school, hardcore punk with an authentic sound and a blast furnace of venomous attitude. The music takes me back to the days before I got into metal and spent my time getting head-butted by a pretty steady diet of punk music. The songs are fairly short and don’t include the downtuned, chug-heavy riffage of more modern hardcore. They kick the door down, shoot you full of adrenaline, throw you around the room, and then bolt out before you quite know what hit you.
I haven’t kept up with this scene, and we don’t write about it much at NCS, so this will seem like a random selection of music, but what can I say? It kicketh my ass and eviscerateth my gutses, and so I’m sharin’ it.
After the jump, I’ve got two music videos that are a blast to watch (and hear) and then a third track that eases up on the pacing but loses none of the righteous antagonism (and thanks to TheMadIsraeli for feeding me these links.)
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Turns out BadWolf and I have a old school hardcore/hardcore punk bug that we usually keep a secret. We may have to spam a week with nothing but.
Well, I’m open to that. Like I said, this music is taking me back down memory lane in a very good way.
Please not as sole content.
HA! Okay, we’ll intersperse it with J-Pop.
PONPONPON!!!!!!
Damn your red eyes. All you have to do is write that word and that fucking song pops back into my head. And I thought listening to ear-wrecking metal for an hour yesterday would be enough to purge it from my memory cells.
Hmmmm… You just gave me an idea…
You gotta learn to appreciate the roots of metal bro.
PLUS THERE IS NO CLEAN SINGING. This totally counts.
Well, I won’t organize a protest or anything. 🙂 But I strongly disagree that it’s a root of metal. It may share roots with metal as part of the same family tree.
Afraid I agree with byrd, punk and hardcore aren’t the roots of metal. They eventually intermarried with metal to produce a whole bunch of divergent offspring, but metal was around well before punk and hardcore, and they were two very different scenes that were pretty hostile to each other for quite a while.
I’m not a music historian, but I don’t see these guys being the roots of metal.
That said, I do realize that the crosspolinization of hardcore with metal has had a huge impact on metal.
But I’m loathe to count some pussy Southern California punk band from 2007 as the roots for anything but a good reason to give myself an aural enema. (Just kidding, the music wasn’t bad at all.)
By these guys, I mean hardcore punk, not the Greenery. Oops.
Fuck yeah.
Not sayin’ like everyday kinda thing, but once and while to spice things up and punch a hole through a wall
Glad you dig. That’s kind of how I feel about it. As a steady diet, I still prefer more metallic forms of extremity, but this shit is a nice, nasty break from the norm.
I like it. I don’t know of much hardcore/punk, but I really do like this. I’ll be checking out the band further. I have a whole list of bands now. Also, I got my shirt Friday, thank you very much! I took a picture with it, lol.
Glad you got the shirt! Send photo!
This band is making my eventual toughguy-hardcore playlist on Invisible Oranges.
I just saw this band with Cruel Hand (another SWEET new-old school hardcore band) in my hometown. AWESOME!
From the videos, it looks like these guys would be a BLAST to hear and watch live. I’m envious.
The Misfits and Motorhead were the bands that got me into music…however, the Misfits didn’t get me into punk, they took me in a whole nother weird-ass direction. I pretty much bypassed everything punk, with the exception of a few ‘crossover’ bands.