The first in a series of classes covering a specific genre of Metal Music. Professor Boz and Professor Casey discuss the mid-90's metallic Hardcore movement. The blending of speed metal and hardcore punk, and the "Breakdown."
Music tracks considered:
- Discharge Hear Nothing See Nothing Say Nothing
- The Misfits Earth AD
- TSOL (True Sounds of Liberty) Abolish Government / Silent Majority
- Suicidal Tendencies Institutionalized
- Biohazard Business (from "Urban Discipline"), also discussion of the album "State of the World Address"
- Sick of it All Scratch the Surface
- Life of Agony This Time (from "River Runs Red")
- Life of Agony Method of Groove
- Life of Agony Weeds
- Design the Skyline Surrounded by Silence as the example of "everything you’re getting wrong in music"
- Biohazard Love Denied
- Bonus: Professor Boz performs the Biohazard Hidden Track from "State of the World Address"