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Tear It Down: How crossover bridged metal and hardcore punk
What happens when hardcore punk collides with metal-and refuses to choose sides?Tear It Down: How Crossover Bridged...
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What happens when hardcore punk collides with metal-and refuses to choose sides?
Tear It Down: How Crossover Bridged Metal and Hardcore Punk captures the violence, creativity, and friction that defined one of the most misunderstood movements in underground music. From widely recognised names such as Agnostic Front, Cro-Mags, The Accused, and D.R.I., to overlooked but essential bands like Beyond Possession, Sacrilege B.C., Lobotomia, and Lethal Aggression, and further into the deepest underground with Ugly But Proud, Whoppers Taste Good, Dresden, and Capitalist Alienation, the book dismantles the idea of a single crossover narrative.
Based on more than 180 interviews with bands worldwide, ranging from original 1980s participants to post-2000 and current bands, Tear It Down centres on the formative years 1980-1990, while tracing crossover's long-term impact and mutations. The book also broadens the conversation through interviews with record labels, visual artists, fanzine creators, and even a blogger, recognising crossover as a culture rather than a style. Alongside, more than 1300 bands are namedropped or reviewed from all over the world.
At 220,000 words and featuring a foreword by Parris Mayhew (founding member of Cro-Mags, White Devil, Aggros), Tear It Down stands as the most extensive document ever produced on the crossover phenomenon.
Author: Alexandros Anesiadis
Publisher: Earth Island Books
Published: 03/13/2026
Pages: 646
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 2.65lbs
Size: 9.21h x 6.14w x 1.76d
ISBN: 9781916864962
About the Author
Anesiadis, Alexandros: - Alexandros Anesiadis is a writer and researcher whose work explores the intersections of underground music, culture, and identity. He is the author of Crossover The Edge, We Can Be The New Wind, and Heroes of the Metal Underground. He also holds a Ph.D. in Media and Communications. Yes, a Dr. too.Musically, he balances between hardcore punk, crossover, and punk rock, with flavours ranging from thrash to post-punk and Oi! to garage rock. He is a lifelong devotee of bands as diverse as Naked Raygun, Wipers, Cro-Mags, D.R.I., Discharge, and Varukers. An unapologetic and borderline manic record collector, he is always willing to sell minor (or not-so-minor) body parts in pursuit of essential vinyl, such as Antidote's Thou Shalt Not Kill 7-inch.Alex (his preferred name) is a massive PAOK fan, a proud partner to an exceptional person (remarkably tolerant of his record-collecting and gig-going mania), and the father of a daughter whose passion for K-Pop constantly reminds him that underground culture evolves in the most unexpected ways.
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