Last updated at 16:45, Friday, 05 February 2010

UNITY In Music are promoting a big punk show at the Nines in Barrow.

UNITY In Music are promoting a big punk show at the Nines in Barrow.

The gig takes place on Friday April 2. The night will feature hardcore punk band Discharge, plus support from Skuff and Volition.

Tickets are available now from the venue in Dalkeith Street. Doors open at 7pm, and the first band will be on stage at 9pm.

Discharge are one of the earliest British bands to take their influences from early punk bands such as the Sex Pistols, The Damned and The Clash, and to mix it with the sounds of the heavy metal scene, such as Motorhead.

They formed in Stoke-on-Trent, and their trademark sound included grinding guitars and guttural vocals.

The stylistic transition made by the band was part of a broader trend in the early 1980s in the UK, which became known as UK 82, or Second Generation UK Hardcore.

Bands such as Discharge, Chaos UK, Amebix, and Charged GBH took the existing 1977-era punk sound and melded it with incessant, heavy drumming and distorted guitar to create a “wall of sound”.

The new, harder-edged style also tended to use much darker, more nihilistic, and more violent lyrics. In the early days, they would often tour on the same bill as bands such as The Exploited and GBH.

The band would go on to influence many others, including Metallica, Napalm Death and Oi Polloi to name but a few.

For those with a love for the harder-edged side of the punk and metal spectrum, this is certainly a date for your diaries.

First published at 13:00, Thursday, 04 February 2010
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