This profile is in no way affiliated with FILTH, and is completely fan-made for people wanting information on FILTH, as is filthpunks.com. That aside, enjoy:
Formed in the East Bay in 1989, from the ashes of Isocracy, the Vagrants, and Crimpshrine; Filth was a crustcore band that would help define the later "East Bay Hardcore" style. The band combined the more upbeat, sometimes poppy guitar styles of Isocracy's Lenny Rokk with harsh screamed vocals, courtesy of Crimpshrine roadie, Jake Sayles. The rhythm section was composed of an East Bay punk known as Mike-o the Psycho, on bass, a Canadian punk rocker named Jim, on guitar, the more well-known Dave (E.C.) Henwood of the Vagrants. Dave left the band after recording the Live The Chaos 7"(1990) and Toby was brought in to replace him. This line-up recorded a split LP with Blatz, known as the Shit Split(1991), which is now available on CD, containing both bands complete discography via lifeisabuse.com, and the This Is Why We Are the Drunks split 7" with Submachine. Toby left the band, and Joey of Blatz stepped in shortly before the band's premature 1991 break-up.
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Len Rokk and Mike-O Psycho were some of the founding members of Strychnine in 1995, and Mike left shortly after releasing a few 7 inches. Len left the band after recording the Dead Rats and Oakland Dogs LP, for his (now defunct) label, East Bay Menace Records. The LP is out of print, but I read somewhere that TKO is wanting to repress it.
Out Of Print
Mike, Jake, Shoshanna Wheaton, Grant(Talk Is Poison), and Jerry(Queen Mab) founded called Fields Of Shit, I think in '96, but they only recorded one 10" EP before disbanding. It is available via Life Is Abuse. (thanks to Jerry for straightening this up for me).
Hear tunes at the Fields Of Shit Myspace.
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Jim played on the Exploited album, Beat the Bastards, then moved back to Canada and formed a band called Tension.
Order Tension's CDs
Jake, Clara(Hue and Cry), Jerry (Fields of Shit), and Mauze(Dystopia, Life Is Abuse Records) formed Abandon in 2003, and in 2004, 5 songs were released on a compilation titled Letters From the Landfill, on Left Off The Dial Records. Abandon is broken-up.
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Dave later played in the Wynona Riders and later the Vagrants reformed as Pot Valiant.
FUKING BLATZ!
All FILTH artwork on this page, including the cover of the compilation "If You Can See Through It. It Ain't Coffee", was drawn by Jesse Michaels, of Operation Ivy and Common Rider, and were either A. stolen from Jesse's website at dynaformer.net or B. Stolen from Life Is Abuse.com, with the exception of "This Is Why We Are the Drunks," which was by Alex, beer label by Buck Knaked, and scanned by me.
