Antisect

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Antisect

Background information
Origin Daventry, Northamptonshire, England
Genre(s) Anarcho-punk
Crust punk
Years active 1982–1987
Label(s) Spiderleg
Former members
Pete Lyons
Pete Paluskiewicz
Renusze Rokicki
Pete Boyce
Rich Hill
Caroline Wallis
John Bryson
Laurence Windle
Tim Andrews

Antisect were an anarcho-punk (and later on, crust punk) band formed in 1982 in Daventry, Northamptonshire, UK. Their debut album, In Darkness There is No Choice, was released in 1983 on Flux Of Pink Indians' Spiderleg Records label and reached number 4 in the indie album charts. This was followed in 1985 by the release of the 7" single Out from the Void, which reached number 2 in the indie singles chart and, along with Amebix's 1985 Arise! album, is considered the starting point of the crust punk genre. The band were going to release a follow up second full-length album entitled Welcome to the New Dark Ages, but it was never finished or released by the band. However, some tracks that were going to be on this album appear on the live album Peace is Better Than a Place in History, as well as many live bootlegs. The band were among the instigators of the squat venue scene in the mid to late '80s before finally splitting in 1987. Pete Lyons is now a music producer/recording engineer working out of Zed One Studios in London and contributes a chapter to Ian Glasper's book "The Day The Country Died", which chronicles the anarcho-punk scene of the time.

Contents

[edit] Founding members

[edit] 'In Darkness...' members

[edit] 'Out From The Void' members

[edit] Final Line Up


[edit] Discography

  • 1st demo, 1982
  • 2nd demo, 1982
  • In Darkness There is No Choice LP, 1983
  • 3rd demo, 1984
  • Out from the Void EP, 1985
  • live split w/ Sacrilege, 1987
  • Hallo There How's Life live album, 1991
  • Peace is Better Than a Place in History live album, 1993
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