Lower Class Brats
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| Background information | |
| Origin | Austin, Texas, USA |
| Genres | Punk rock, street punk |
| Years active | January 1995–present |
| Labels | Helen of Oi! Records England Pair-O-Docs Records Second To None Records Combat Rock Records France Dirty Punk Records France GMM Records T.S.O.R. Records Switzerland Punk Core Records TKO Records Pineapple Records Japan Turkey Baster Records |
| Website | http://www.lcbarmy.com |
| Members |
Bones DeLarge Marty Volume Ron Conflict Punt |
| Past members | Rick Brat Rob Brat Clay Aloy Johnny O. Negative Houston Richieson Ryland Meyer Mike Brat Brad Teeter EVO Joey The Kid |
Lower Class Brats are a punk rock band founded in Austin, Texas in January 1995. They describe their sound as high energy "Rock and Roll Street Noize." They have released a number of recordings including twelve 7" singles, three 12" singles, four full-length albums and one live album. They are highly influenced by the movie and book A Clockwork Orange.
Like a festering sore or a criminal rap sheet, the Lower Class Brats won't go away.
Formed in Austin, Texas in 1995, the Brats hit the scene like a gob of Lone Star loogie and have been spitting like cobras ever since. Brazenly unapologetic and frightfully in-your-face, the band's knuckle-busting brand of safety-pinned street punk has launched a legacy of hostility.
After scraping and stealing (or worse) to release a handful of broke-budget, seven-inch singles, the Brats finally issued their rabidly devoured 1997 debut album, "Rather Be Hated Than Ignored." A promise as much as a threat, "Hated" became a rallying cry for Austin's underground punk scene and served as marching orders for the germinating LCB Army. It also became an Oi! classic.
Eighteen years and multiple albums later (to say nothing of the untold beers, drugs, fights and vomit) the Brats and their tattooed Army remain a growing worldwide disease. Tours across Mexico, Europe, North America, Canada, Japan and elsewhere left a wake of wreckage and won countless new LCB recruits who proudly wear the band's clockwork skull mascot on tattered jackets and deep in their skin.
Today, to the great dismay of polite society, the Brats refuse to slow down or sober up. With new music always ticking like a bomb, the next explosion of chaos, riot and ruin is right around the next piss-stained corner. Consider yourself warned … and invited!
-- Metal Dave Glessner http://2fast2die.com/
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