American punk rock band formed in Los Angeles in 1980. Founding members included Greg Graffin (vocals), Brett Gurewitz (guitar), Jay Bentley (bass), and Jay Ziskrout (drums). Pioneers of melodic hardcore punk; Gurewitz founded Epitaph Records to release the band's debut.
The band's identity is built around dense, intellectual lyrics (Graffin holds a PhD in zoology), three-part vocal harmonies, and direct political commentary. Suffer (1988) is widely cited as a foundational text of the genre. Subsequent peaks: No Control (1989), Against the Grain (1990), Generator (1992), Recipe for Hate (1993), and the major-label Stranger Than Fiction (1994). Seventeen studio albums total.
Concerts
Bad Religion · Alkaline Trio · War on Women
Stage AE
Bad Religion · Pennywise · The Offspring · The Vandals
Stage AE
Bad Religion · NOFX · Rancid · ALL · Deftones · Voodoo Glow Skulls · Reverend Horton Heat · MxPx … and more
Nautica Stage
Bad Religion · Goldfinger
Metropol
Bad Religion · Dance Hall Crashers · Unwritten Law
Agora
Vinyl
Generator
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How Could Hell Be Any Worse?
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Recipe For Hate
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The Empire Strikes First
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Stranger Than Fiction
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The Gray Race
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Against The Grain
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The Process Of Belief
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Suffer
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