Filth (band)

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Filth was a crust punk band from East Bay, California.

1 Members
2 Biography
3 Aftermath
4 Trivia
5 Discography
6 External links

[edit] Members

Jake Sayles - Vocals, later of Fields of Shit and Abandon
Len Rokk - Guitar, formerly of Isocracy and later of Strychnine
Jim Gray - Guitar, Later of The Exploited and Tension
"Mike-O the Psycho" - Bass, later of Strychnine and Fields Of Shit
Dave E.C. Henwood - Drums, formerly of the Vagrants and later of Wynona Riders and Pot Valiant
"Toby" - Drums
Joey Perales - Drums, formerly of Blatz, later joined Jack Acid, Dead and Gone and Creeps on Candy

[edit] Biography

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, Jim Gray, a Canadian who temporarily moved to SoCal, on guitar, the more well-known Dave (E.C.) Henwood of the Vagrants. Dave left the band after recording the shit split lp(1990) and Toby was brought in to replace him. They release a split ablum 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.

[edit] Aftermath

Len Rokk and Mike-O Psycho were some of the founding members of Strychnine in 1995, and both left the band after recording the Dead Rats and Oakland Dogs LP, for Len's (now defunct) label, East Bay Menace Records. The LP is out of print, but I read somewhere that TKO is wanting to repress it.

Mike and Jake founded a band with Shoshanna Wheaton and members of Queen Mab and Talk Is Poison, called Fields Of Shit, who only recorded one 10" EP before disbanding. It is available via Life Is Abuse.

Jim moved back to Canada and formed a band called Tension, who released a CD called "War Cry" on Cargo Music/Grilled Cheese Records, and later joined the Exploited.

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.

Dave later played in the Wynona Riders and later the Vagrants reformed as Pot Valiant.

[edit] Trivia

The drummer of The All-American Rejects can be seen wearing a Filth t-shirt in the video for their song "Move Along". [1]

[edit] Discography

Discography
Title	Label	FMT	Date
Live The Chaos	Lookout Records	7"	1990
If You Can See Through It... It Ain't Coffee	Very Small Records	7" Compilation w/ Fuel, Monsula, and Thumper	1990
The Shit Split (w/ Blatz)	Lookout Records	12" LP	1991
This Is Why We Are The Drunks (split w/ Submachine)	Rust Records	7"	1992
There's a Faggot in the Pit	Bobo Records	7" Compilation w/ Good Grief, Glee Club, All You Can Eat, and Up To Here	1992
The Shit Split (w/ Blatz, CD Version)	Lookout Records	CD(Contains both band's complete discography)	1997
Later That Same Year...	S.P.A.M. Records	CD	1999