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Sore Throat were a British
United Kingdom

The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, commonly known as the United Kingdom , the UK or Britain,is a sovereign state located off the northwestern coast of continental Europe....
 crust punk
Crust punk

Crust punk is one of the evolutions of anarcho-punk and hardcore punk, mixed with extreme metal guitar riffs. The style, which evolved in the mid-1980s in the UK, often had songs with dark, pessimistic lyrics, lingering on political and social issues....
 / grindcore
Grindcore

Grindcore, often shortened to grind, is an extreme music genre that emerged during the mid?late 1980s. It draws inspiration from some of the most abrasive music genres ? including death metal, industrial music, Noise music and the more extreme varieties of hardcore punk....
 band, formed in Yorkshire
Yorkshire

Yorkshire is a Historic counties of England of northern England and the largest in Great Britain. Because of its great size, over time functions were increasingly undertaken by its subdivisions, which have been subject to History of local government in Yorkshire....
 in 1987. They are known for being one of the earliest exponents of the grindcore subgenre known as "noisecore", as well launching the careers of several prominent members of the British metal
Heavy metal music

Heavy metal is a genre of rock music that developed in the late 1960s and early 1970s, largely in England and the United States. With roots in blues-rock and psychedelic rock, the bands that created heavy metal developed a thick, massive sound, characterized by highly amplified Distortion , extended guitar solos, emphatic beats, and overall...
 community.

Throat were formed in 1987 by John "Doom" Pickering (bass; previously a member of Doom
Doom (UK band)

Doom were an England crust punk rock band from Birmingham, England, which were together from 1987 to 1990. Despite its short existence, the band is considered pivotal in the rise of crust punk, a style within the punk rock subgenre that fuses extreme metal with anarcho-punk....
, Pelvic Thrust, Police Bastard and Cain), Brian "Bri" Talbot (guitar; also previously associated with Doom and Pelvic Thrust, as well as Ackworth St.






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Sore Throat were a British
United Kingdom

The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, commonly known as the United Kingdom , the UK or Britain,is a sovereign state located off the northwestern coast of continental Europe....
 crust punk
Crust punk

Crust punk is one of the evolutions of anarcho-punk and hardcore punk, mixed with extreme metal guitar riffs. The style, which evolved in the mid-1980s in the UK, often had songs with dark, pessimistic lyrics, lingering on political and social issues....
 / grindcore
Grindcore

Grindcore, often shortened to grind, is an extreme music genre that emerged during the mid?late 1980s. It draws inspiration from some of the most abrasive music genres ? including death metal, industrial music, Noise music and the more extreme varieties of hardcore punk....
 band, formed in Yorkshire
Yorkshire

Yorkshire is a Historic counties of England of northern England and the largest in Great Britain. Because of its great size, over time functions were increasingly undertaken by its subdivisions, which have been subject to History of local government in Yorkshire....
 in 1987. They are known for being one of the earliest exponents of the grindcore subgenre known as "noisecore", as well launching the careers of several prominent members of the British metal
Heavy metal music

Heavy metal is a genre of rock music that developed in the late 1960s and early 1970s, largely in England and the United States. With roots in blues-rock and psychedelic rock, the bands that created heavy metal developed a thick, massive sound, characterized by highly amplified Distortion , extended guitar solos, emphatic beats, and overall...
 community.

Biography

Sore Throat were formed in 1987 by John "Doom" Pickering (bass; previously a member of Doom
Doom (UK band)

Doom were an England crust punk rock band from Birmingham, England, which were together from 1987 to 1990. Despite its short existence, the band is considered pivotal in the rise of crust punk, a style within the punk rock subgenre that fuses extreme metal with anarcho-punk....
, Pelvic Thrust, Police Bastard and Cain), Brian "Bri" Talbot (guitar; also previously associated with Doom and Pelvic Thrust, as well as Ackworth St. Chaos Front, Metal Motherfuckers from Mars, Bugeyed, Warfear, Woodhouse Rejects, Stalingrad, Blood Sucking Feaks, Devils and Virtual Reality), Richard "Militia" Walker (vocals; of Wartorn and Warfear) and Nick Royles (drums). The band were vehemently opposed to what they saw as commercialism with the hardcore
Hardcore punk

Hardcore punk is a subgenre of punk rock that originated in North America and the UK in the late 1970s. The new sound was generally thicker, heavier and faster than earlier punk rock....
 scene, and used ridicule to lyrically lambast the likes of Napalm Death
Napalm Death

Napalm Death are an English death metal band from Birmingham, formed in 1981. They are noted for being the first band to play the style known as grindcore....
, The Sex Pistols, Suicidal Tendencies
Suicidal Tendencies

Suicidal Tendencies is an American hardcore punk and Heavy metal music band. They were formed in Venice, Los Angeles, California, in 1981 by the leader and only permanent member, singer Mike Muir....
, DRI
Dirty Rotten Imbeciles

Dirty Rotten Imbeciles are a crossover thrash band that formed in 1982.The band never gained any mainstream audience, but were an influence on their contemporaries ? most notably Suicidal Tendencies, Corrosion of Conformity, and Stormtroopers of Death ? alongside whom they are considered the early pioneers of the sound that would later be...
, OLD
OLD (band)

OLD was a grindcore / industrial metal band from Bergenfield, New Jersey, New Jersey, signed to Earache Records. It featured Alan Dubin on vocals, and James Plotkin on guitars and Programming , both of whom would later form the experimental doom metal band Khanate ....
, Wehrmacht (band) and SOD
Stormtroopers of Death

Stormtroopers of Death, more commonly known as S.O.D., formed in New York in 1985. They are commonly credited as being among the first bands to fuse hardcore punk with thrash metal into a style sometimes called "crossover thrash"....
. Other lyrics mocked Nazis
Nazism

Nazism, officially National Socialism , refers to the ideology and practices of the National Socialist German Workers? Party under Adolf Hitler, and the policies adopted by the dictatorial government of Nazi Germany from 1933 to 1945....
, capitalism
Capitalism

Capitalism is an economic system in which wealth, and the means of producing wealth, are private property and controlled rather than commonly, publicly, or state-owned and controlled....
 and the straight edge
Straight edge

Straight Edge refers to a lifestyle that started within the hardcore punk subculture whose adherents make a lifetime commitment to refrain from drinking alcohol, using tobacco products, and taking recreational drugs....
 movement.

The band's first release was the Aural Butchery demo in 1987, and like other early releases such as the 42 track Death to Capitalist Hardcore EP (1987) and the Noise Annoys demo (1988) consisted largely of raw, sub-one minute blast of grindcore noise; Death to Capitalist Hardcore was later ranked number 14 in Terrorizer
Terrorizer Magazine

Terrorizer is an extreme music magazine published by Dark Arts Ltd. in the United Kingdom. It is released every four weeks with thirteen issues a year and features a 'Fear Candy' covermount CD, a twice yearly 'Fear Candy Unsigned' CD, and a double-sided poster....
s list of essential European grindcore albums. After signing to the Manic Ears label in 1988, Sore Throat released their debut album, Unhindered by Talent, which continued the trend, albeit with a number of more traditional, Discharge
Discharge (band)

Discharge is a United Kingdom hardcore punk band formed in 1977 by Terry "Tezz" Roberts and Roy "Rainy" Wainwright. They are often considered among one of the very first bands to play hardcore punk, and mixing punk with metal....
-style numbers. Their second album, Disgrace to the Corpse of Sid on Earache
Earache Records

For the medical condition known as "earache", see otalgia.Earache Records is a heavy metal music-oriented record label based in Nottingham, UK and New York, USA....
, showed even more diversity, incorporating distortion, blast beat
Blast beat

A blast beat is a drum beat often associated with death metal and black metal, although its usage predates the genre and has spread to many other forms of extreme metal....
s, screams and grunts, and sound samples. However, whilst the A side of the album consisted of the band's patented noisecore, the B side contained more doom
Doom metal

Doom metal is a form of heavy metal music that typically employs very slow tempos, low-tuned guitars and a much 'thicker' or 'heavier' sound than other metal genres....
-inspired crust punk, along the lines of Amebix
Amebix

Amebix are an English crust punk band. Formed as "The Band with No Name," Amebix's original run was from 1978 to 1987, during which time they released three EPs and two full-length LPs....
. The band also released the Inde$troy in 1988 under the moniker Saw Throat.

A line-up change resulted in Paul "Hammy" Halmshaw taking over on drums, and Sore Throat released their final full-length album, Never Mind the Napalm... Here's Sore Throat, in 1989, returning to their crust punk roots. A number of other releases followed, including the Soar Throat EP, the And We Don't Care compilation and the Poison Idea / No Handle Beer demo (featuring two Poison Idea
Poison Idea

Poison Idea was an United States hardcore punk band formed in Portland, Oregon in 1980. As their career progressed the band began to incorporate overt influences from hard rock....
 covers and one original track), but Sore Throat disbanded in 1990 due to internal conflicts.

Vocalist Rich Walker was already involved with Sludgelord and went on to play in the doom metal band Solstice
Solstice (UK band)

This article is about the UK band Solstice. For information on the US death metal band, see Solstice .Solstice is a doom metal band from England....
 and epic heavy metal
Heavy metal music

Heavy metal is a genre of rock music that developed in the late 1960s and early 1970s, largely in England and the United States. With roots in blues-rock and psychedelic rock, the bands that created heavy metal developed a thick, massive sound, characterized by highly amplified Distortion , extended guitar solos, emphatic beats, and overall...
 group Isen Torr, as well as some hardcore bands like Wartorn, Warfear, Discontrol, Nailbomb and Harmony As One, all of whom released records in the early 1990s. He currently runs his own label The Miskatonic Foundation and plays rhythm guitar in Pagan Altar
Pagan Altar

Pagan Altar is a doom metal band from England. They are regarded as one of the pioneers of their genre....
. Guitarist Brian Talbot went on to play with doom metal group Khang (latterly Lazarus Blackstar). Bassist John Pickering became a DJ at Radio Kerrang!
Kerrang!

Kerrang! is a weekly music magazine, published by Bauer Verlagsgruppe in the United Kingdom.The name refers to the sound made when smashing an electric guitar....
. Original drummer Nick Royles set up an anarchist book mail order service, whilst his replacement Paul Halmshaw founded Peaceville Records
Peaceville Records

Peaceville Records is a United Kingdom independent record label heavy metal music-oriented record label. The label was founded by Paul "Hammy" Halmshaw in 1987 in music, in Cleckheaton, England....
.

Line-up


First line-up

  • John "Doom" Pickering (bass)
  • Rich "Militia" Walker (vocals)
  • Brian "Bri" Talbot (guitar)
  • Nick Royles (drums)


Second line-up

  • John "Doom" Pickering (bass)
  • Rich "Militia" Walker (vocals)
  • Brian "Bri" Talbot (guitar)
  • Paul "Hammy" Halmshaw (drums)


Discography


Official releases

  • Aural Butchery demo (1987)
  • Death to Capitalist Hardcore EP (also known as self-titled EP) (1987)
  • Noise Annoys demo (1988)
  • Unhindered by Talent LP/cassette (1988) (Meantime Records)
  • Disgrace to the Corpse Of Sid LP/CD (1988) (earache Records)
  • Inde$troy LP/CD (1989)(Manic Ears) (the band went under Saw Throat for this release) (LP rerelease on Epistrophy Records and Skuld releases in 2006, CD rerelease in 2006 on s.o.a.)
  • Never Mind the Napalm... MLP/cassette (European edition: 60 tracks, USA edition: 16 tracks) (1989)
  • Soar Throat EP (the band went under the name Soar Throat for this release) (1989)
  • And We Don't Care CD (1989)
  • Poison Idea / No Handle Beer demo (two Poison Idea
    Poison Idea

    Poison Idea was an United States hardcore punk band formed in Portland, Oregon in 1980. As their career progressed the band began to incorporate overt influences from hard rock....
     covers and one original track) (1989)
  • Death to Capitalist Halmshaw (featuring all Sore Throat demo tracks, the Death To Capitalist Hardcore EP and rare live material and unreleased material) (2006)


Compilations featuring Sore Throat

  • A Vile Peace LP (Peaceville)
  • Spleurk LP (Meantime)
  • Grindcrusher LP (Earache)
  • The Hysterical Years CD (Manic Ears)
  • Six Ways 7" LP (Komist-A))
  • Summertime Sampler 7" flexi (Skateboard magazine)
  • Volnitza LP (1 In 12 Records)


Bootlegs

Aside from their official discography, Sore Throat have been heavily bootlegged. Rich Walker commented that bootlegging of T-shirts has been especially prevalent. All Sore Throat albums have also been bootlegged on both CD and vinyl; some examples include:

  • Abraham's Ear 7" EP (Aural Butchery demo released with bonus live tracks)
  • Death To Capitalist Hardcore EP (bootlegged 3three times with red/black sleeve)
  • Death To Capitalist Grindcore LP
  • Death To Capitalist Thrashcore LP
  • F.O.A.D. studio/live LP (first half of this release is Walker's post-Sore Throat band Sludgelord)
  • Algo Que Nunca Fue CD
  • Encerrado En El Trago CD


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