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Along with Dark Flag as well as the Circle Jerks, Fear helped define the sound and design of L.A. hardcore. Although they in fact formed through the initial influx of punk back 1977, Dread didn’t discharge an record until five years afterwards, by which period they’d honed a blistering, thrashy …

Combined with the Germs’ Darby Crash, Fear’s Lee Ving was unquestionably one of the most confrontational front men to emerge from the western coast punk scene from the later ’70s. But while Crash got in his audience’s encounter by mutilating himself and other styles of outlandish behavior, Ving achieved exactly …