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Downset

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Mixing rap, funk, hardcore punk, rock, and socially conscious lyrics, Downset was formed in LA in the past due ’80s within the city’s even now thriving hardcore picture, but quickly extended their appear (and transformed their name from the greater didactic Sociable Justice). Made up of vocalist Rey Oropeza, guitarists Ares Schwager and Rogelio “Roy” Lozano (the second option of whom in addition has worked well as Cypress Hill’s touring guitarist), bassist Wayne Morris, and drummer Chris Lee, Downset perfected their bleak, metropolitan make of rap/hard rock and roll fusion years prior to the genre exploded commercially, debuting in 1994 having a self-titled recording for Polygram. The follow-up, Perform We Speak a Deceased Language?, made an appearance in 1996, however the music group was soon discouraged in its attempts to complete another recording because of contractual entanglements caused by its label’s merger with Common. Downset eventually captured on with Epitaph and released Examine Your People in past due 2000. Universal adopted four years later on.

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Full Name Downset
Music Songs Anger, Eyes Shut Tight, My American Prayer, Prostitutionalized, Breed the Killer, Check Your People, About to Blast, Pocket Full of Fatcaps, One Blood, Sangre de mis manos, Pure Trauma, Take 'em Out, Against the Spirits, Test of My Heart, Ashes in Hand, Hurl a Stone, Chemical Strangle, Dying of Thirst, Empower, Permanent Days Unmoving, Fallen Off, Keep on Breathing, All Crews, Play Big, Black Glock, Body Cry, Jumpin Off, Horrifying, Cold Blue Coma, No Home, Holding Hands, Tear Us Apart
Albums Do We Speak a Dead Language?, Check Your People, downset., One Blood, Universal, Code Blue Coma, Generation of Hope EP

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