Confront

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There is more than one artist with this name: 1) Confront was the old school hardcore band from Cleveland, OH - perhaps best known for vocalist “Mean” Steve Murad’s later participation in One Life Crew. They were an anomaly - a midwest straightedge band that played fast hardcore that was more Buzzcocks than Minor Threat. And when they played out, a huge fist-skanking circle pit would always burst out on the floor. Ripping through songs such as “Join The Circus” and the soon-to-be-self-parodying “Macho Man,” Confront’s sets were sloppy, brutal, and fun. It was not until that Project X show at Irv’s Pizzeria on Coventry when the NYHC Straightedge scene came thundering through our cow-tipping punk pastures. After witnessing the hard dance buffness of the Youth Crew, Confront become self-conscious about their sound and place in the larger “Straight-Edge Scene.” Their whole set list was rewritten to include more of those turnip-picking-elbow-throwing breakdowns indicative of a “dancing hard” pit. The songs got better and worse at the same time. Confront became a real force to be reckoned with and yet, never fully got the recognition they so richly deserved. http://www.lovebunnipress.com/histories/histories.html 2) Confront is the Boston Hardcore/Punk band. Who have been together since 1998.Bringing the attitude and experience of a youth spent on the streets of Boston, Confront was born around 1999 with the desire to play hard honest music without catering to the image and styl

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