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Antiseen - 36% match to GG Allin

There have been countless three-chord shock punk bands over the years, but few have lasted as long and played with such continuous vigour as Antiseen. Originating from Charlotte, North Carolina, USA, the band has been together in one form or another since 1983, although vocalist Jeff Clayton and guitarist Joe Young have been mainstays throughout. Clayton’s lyrical subject Read more

Charles Manson - 18% match to GG Allin

Fear - 17% match to GG Allin

One of the most entertaining and influential of the punk bands that emerged in the late 70s in Los Angeles, California, Fear consisted of Lee Ving (vocals, guitar, harmonica), Philo Cramer (guitar), Derf Scratch (bass) and Johnny Backbeat (drums). Formed in 1978, the band’s sarcastic, almost nihilistic, stance, captured on Penelope Spheeris’ The Decline Of Western Civ Read more

Discharge - 16% match to GG Allin

Many fans would argue that UK band Discharge were the most influential punk band after the Sex Pistols. Certainly, their caustic wall of sound (a million miles away from anything Phil Spector could ever have envisaged when he invented the term) has inspired both punk and metal bands throughout the UK and USA. Discharge was formed in 1978 in Birmingham, England. In Keeping with Read more

Hank Williams III - 16% match to GG Allin

Amebix - 15% match to GG Allin

A formative influence on Sepultura’s Max Cavalera, Amebix, despite their relatively low profile, were instrumental in the development of the ‘crust’ sound which blended elements of metal, hardcore and punk with uncompromising political lyrics, doomy portents and a commitment to an underground lifestyle that eschewed comforts in favour of squatting and drug and al Read more

Anti-Nowhere League - 15% match to GG Allin

Leading lights in the early 80s UK punk scene, along with contemporaries G.B.H. and the Exploited, this quartet from Tunbridge Wells, Kent, England, flaunted their talents in biker leather, chains, and hardcore obscenity. Led by Animal (Nick Karmer; vocals) and Magoo (guitar), their catalogue of sexual outrage veered from the satirical to the genuinely offensive, with a stri Read more

Dead Boys - 15% match to GG Allin

Poison Idea - 15% match to GG Allin

These hardcore heavyweights’ broad appearance (nearly all the band members could be generously described as obese) gave little credence to the harsh, speedy rock path they pursued. Formed in Portland, Oregon, USA, in late 1980, their first incarnation featured Jerry A. (Jerry Lang; vocals), Pig Champion (b. Tom Roberts, 4 November 1958, USA, d. 31 January 2006, Portland Read more

Circle Jerks - 14% match to GG Allin

Formed in Los Angeles, California, USA, in 1980, this powerful hardcore band featured vocalist Keith Morris (ex-Black Flag) and guitarist Greg Hetson (ex-Redd Kross, later Bad Religion). Roger (Dowding) Rogerson (bass) and Lucky Lehrer (drums) completed the line-up featured on the quartet’s forceful debut album. Their second, Wild In The Streets, was initially issued on Po Read more

Gang Green - 14% match to GG Allin

This quartet from Boston, Massachusetts, USA, specializing in a fusion of hardcore and thrash, was put together by guitarist/vocalist Chris Doherty. Although originally formed in 1982 by Doherty, Mike Dean and Bill Manley, it was a completely different 1985 incarnation that secured a contract with Taang! Records (Doherty had spent some of the intervening period with Jerry’ Read more

The Germs - 14% match to GG Allin

This Los Angeles, California, USA-based punk band was formed in April 1977. The original members were Darby Crash (Jan Paul Beahm, 26 September 1958, USA, d. 7 December 1980, USA; vocals), Pat Smear (b. Georg Ruthenberg, 5 August 1959, Los Angeles, California, USA; guitar), Lorna Doom (bass) and Belinda Carlisle (b. Belinda Kerzcheski, 17 August 1958, Hollywood, California, Read more

Cock Sparrer - 13% match to GG Allin

Dwarves - 13% match to GG Allin

Though never quite matching G.G. Allin’s ability for outraging moral decency, this Chicago, Illinois, USA-based outfit has managed to continually offend and confuse throughout their career. Originally formed by frontman Blag Dahlia as Suburban Nightmare, the band’s earliest incarnation was as a garage outfit, and the first full Dwarves album, 1986’s Horror Storie Read more

Hellhammer - 13% match to GG Allin

Formed in 1982, seminal Swiss extreme heavy metal band Hellhammer toyed with Satanic imagery, but were chiefly concerned with generating morbid intensity. Generally considered to be formless noise at the time, Hellhammer attracted a cult following nonetheless. They appealed to the youthful grass-roots of the heavy metal scene, who coveted the most bombastically abrasive sounds Read more