CHRIST ON PARADE Announces Reunion Shows

July 3, 2007

Legendary hardcore band CHRIST ON PARADE will reunite for two shows at 924 Gilman in Berkeley, California later this month:

July 27 with FINAL CONFLICT (Long Beach),LOOK BACK AND LAUGH, BUMBKLAATT (Mexico),ACTS OF SEDITION

July 28 with ATTITUDE ADJUSTMENT (reunion),ELDOPA, REAGAN SS (Los Angeles),LA PIOVRA (Italy)

CHRIST ON PARADE epitomized mid-'80s East Bay hardcore. With electrifying songs that embodied the scene's youthful energy, anger and spirit, the group always practiced what they preached.

Formed in 1985 by ex-members of TEENAGE WARNING and peace punks TREASON, the quintet thundered against Reaganomics, totalitarianism and crooked landlords with their jagged, post-adolescent calls-to-arms. As punk luminaries like BLACK FLAG fizzled out, hardcore-metal crossover groups like D.R.I. ascended the ranks and all underground bands took on the government, CHRIST ON PARADE perfectly expressed their musical and social growing pains on their debut, "Sounds of Nature", which originally came out on Pushead's label but the band is now re-releasing with bonus material on Neurot Recordings. The disc features two songs from Thrasher's now out-of-print "Skate Rock Volume 3: Wild Riders of Boards" cassette, the group's "Isn't Life A Dream" EP, and a previously unreleased cover of the AVENGERS' "The American in Me".

Commented NEUROSIS' Scott Kelly: "I saw CHRIST ON PARADE in San Jose opening for SOCIAL DISTORTION, and it was one of the best live sets I've ever seen anywhere. There was this anxiety and tension that went through everybody in the crowd waiting for their first noise, and when it came the whole place blew out front to back. The original lineup had caustic personality that when it was going good, things were on the edge of oblivion. When the mixture was off, things got ugly; there was a chaotic energy that followed them everywhere. CHRIST ON PARADE were a product of a time when all was wrong with life, and the only thing worth doing was sacrificing your body for your mind in hopes of a moment of grace. Unfortunately grace came along too late to save the band, but the music stands alone."

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