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1876
12+ albums
indigenouspunkhardcoreheavy metalhardcore punk
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If you hang around with the guys from 1876 while they're recording you'll hear a certain word used a lot: ugly. "Make it uglier". They're more than capable of shitting out a 3-chord pop tune but they'd rather make you feel like you're being aurally assaulted. Fear, vertigo, anxiety, nausea, claustrophobia, etc. would be the desired effect. They're not bad guys but they don't feel good. The way 1876 started explains why the word "ugly" gets thrown around a lot. Fernando Solis (vocals) and Joseph Allsop (guitar, vocs) met at a point in time when they were both falling apart and ostracized. No matter how much they both tried to fix things they ended up getting into deeper and darker places. As Fernando says "You really do succumb to the things you hate". I'd write some of what they did here but I don't want you to stop reading and not listen to the record. Somehow in the midst of this chaos they managed to get Joe's old bandmate Justin Benyo (drums) to believe they could hold it together enough to write songs and play gigs. The general idea was play as loud and as heavy as possible (they briefly debated buying a PA to amplify Justin's kit because he wasn't able to play as loud as the amps). Their influences came from the old guard (Zeppelin, the Stones, Blue Cheer, The Zombies, Motorhead) but also the now (Refused, Cursive, Converge, Radiohead, Glassjaw). They banged out an ep with all of the pitfalls that plague a fledgling band. The songs were good but they weren’t able to ca
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