UK hardcore legends DISCHARGE are to celebrate their 40th Anniversary with a major new anthology.
Yes, it's forty years since the Stoke-on-Trent band released their iconic debut single 'Realities Of War' and to celebrate, they're releasing Protest And Survive: The Anthology, a 53-track career-spanning collection on double splatter vinyl and double digipak CD.
The band actually formed in 1977 but 'Realities Of War' saw them break out of their Potteries bolthole, picking up regular airplay from John Peel and earning them a 44-week stay on the indie chart, peaking at No.5. The band would go on to wield a globe-straddling influence over punk and metal, going so far as to sprout a new sub-genre, D-Beat.
Protest And Survive is heralded by the previously unreleased track 'Descending Into Madness', which was recorded in 2002 with original singer Kelvin 'Cal' Morris.
“As we were writing the tunes for the 2002 album, me and Bones felt that Kelvin was not doing too much to contribute, so we didn't really know how it was going turn out until the demo,” explains co-founder Tezz Roberts. “We did in Stoke and let me tell you, we breathed a sigh of relief when we heard his voice was back! It's not the finished product but you get the gist of it!”
Set for release on Friday 21 February through BMG, Protest And Survive is available to pre-order here.
