Originally Posted by Unknown Soldier

Pretty cool write up about LA punk bands. I've always found it interesting the rivalry between LA and SF in music circles, right back from the psychedelic movement of the 1960s, the punk rivalry and most notably the metal differences in the 1980s.

Originally Posted by J.R.R. Tolkien

There is only one bright spot and that is the growing habit of disgruntled men of dynamiting factories and power-stations; I hope that, encouraged now as ‘patriotism’, may remain a habit! But it won’t do any good, if it is not universal.

Originally Posted by The Batlord

You know, I always thought that at least the metal circles were kind of linked in the eighties. I mean, I never heard about a real rivalry between bands like Slayer, Dark Angel, Hirax, etc and Exodus, Testament, Death Angel, etc.

Originally Posted by eraser.time206

If you can't deal with the fact that there are 6+ billion people in the world and none of them think exactly the same that's not my problem. Just deal with it yourself or make actual conversation. This isn't a court and I'm not some poet or prophet that needs everything I say to be analytically critiqued.