DISCHARGE Society's Victims 3CD (2004)

Before there was d-beat, there was just Discharge doing something nobody had a name for yet. Stoke-on-Trent, early 80s, and they were writing the blueprint that would go on to infect hardcore punk on every continent for the next four decades.

Society's Victims is a three-disc deep dive into the early years of one of the most influential and uncompromising bands to ever pick up instruments. The influence runs through everything from Tragedy and Wolfbrigade to Discharge-core acts you hear at sticky-floored Melbourne punk gigs right now. This is the source text. These recordings are why entire subgenres exist. Reaping Whirlwind, Why, State Violence State Control, it doesn't get more essential than this for anyone who takes punk, metal, grunge, or any heavy music seriously.

Three-disc compilation, UK pressing, originally released 2004 with this pressing from 2016. Genre: hardcore punk.

Fans of: Amebix, Antisect, Broken Bones, Doom, Wolfbrigade, Tragedy