Earth Crisis

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Earth Crisis was a straight edge, vegan metalcore band from Syracuse, New York that recorded and performed from 1992 until 2001. Earth Crisis is famous for supporting animal rights (and the Animal Liberation Front) and promoting a healthy life-style including a strict vegan diet and abstinence from alcohol and other stimulant substances. Their lyrics are full of strong statements of conviction against animal abuse and political issues. Earth Crisis was criticized by those who felt that their shows led to violence and racial and sexual discrimination. The band's message was to show an alternative way of life for a younger generation. The title song from their second mini-album entitled "Firestorm" became an anthem for the people believing in the power of a vegan/straight edge ideology.

The first two mini-albums "All Out War" (1992) and Firestorm (1993) made the band popular and recognizable in some small circles of hardcore listeners. The next two full-length records "Destroy the Machines" (1995) and "Gomorrah's Season Ends" (1996) brought a more complex and developed form of hardcore noise. The album "Gomorrah's Season Ends" set a new standard of recording quality and production for independent hardcore. The band's growing popularity was noticed by Roadrunner Records. A new record deal pushed the band forward to record the album entitled "Breed the Killers" (1998) featuring a guest appearance by Machine Head's vocalist and guitarist Robb Flynn. The album "Slither" was released in 2000 and brought a completely new vision of hardcore. With clear and professional production it surprised some listeners and introduced the band's music to a wider audience. The band's final album, "Last of the Sane" (2001) is Earth Crisis' tribute to those bands who influenced them in the past. Cover-songs of bands like The Rolling Stones, Slayer, Led Zeppelin, and Dead Kennedys were included.

In 2001, Earth Crisis played their final show at Hellfest in Syracuse, NY^[1]. Frontman Karl Buechner, along with Bulldog and Erick Edwards, started the band Freya, previously known as Nemesis. On October 12, 2006, it was reported by several punk and hardcore websites that Earth Crisis would be playing a reunion show at the Maryland Metal and Hardcore Festival on the 27th of January 2007.

Many of the members are also in the band Path of Resistance, which was formed during down time from touring in 1997.