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Amebix is tagged as: crust, crust punk, punk, anarcho-punk, hardcore

Amebix are a British crust punk band that formed in 1978. Many consider them to have started the subgenre crust punk, by mixing heavy metal with anarcho-punk. They established crust as being separate from thrash metal by mixing post-punk music with metal riffs and atmospheres, as opposed to thrash bands’ mixing of metal music with punk rawness and speed. Influential in the anarcho-punk genre, Amebix’ song “No Gods, No Masters” became a slogan for the movement worldwide. They were originally called The Band With No Name, and shared a squat in Bristol for part of their career. Their music, heavily influenced by Motörhead (and to a lesser extent Lemmy-era Hawkwind), Black Sabbath, Venom and early Killing Joke, combined with an ethos and worldview akin to Crass, represented their non-traditional lifestyles.
Amebix had an early track called “University Challenged” which appeared on the first Crass Records “Bullshit Detector” Compilation LP.
Their music blended hardcore and heavy metal into a form of early thrash metal. Such notable talents as Nausea (NY), Extinction of Mankind, Sepultura, Choking Victim, Neurosis, Napalm Death, and Deviated Instinct have paid homage to these masters.
The band split in 1987 after release/dis...
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Top 10 Amebix Songs
Largactyl
Axeman
Fear Of God
The Moor
Drink And Be Merry
Spoils Of Victory
Chain Reaction
Arise
Slave
The Darkest Hour
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Top 10 Amebix Albums
Arise!
Monolith
Beginning of the End
Arise
No Sanctuary: The Spiderleg Recordings
Arise Plus Two
Redux
Arise! +2
Knights of the Black Sun
The Power Remains
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