SUICIDAL TENDENCIES Performs Entire Debut Album At Washington, D.C. Concert (Video)

September 10, 2018

Venice, California crossover thrash/hardcore punk legends SUICIDAL TENDENCIES celebrated the 35th anniversary of their self-titled debut album by performing the LP in its entirety this past Saturday, September 8 at the 9:30 Club in Washington, D.C. Fan-filmed video footage of the concert can be seen below.

Four years ago, SUICIDAL TENDENCIES frontman Mike Muir stated about the band's three-decade-plus-long existence: "My dad always says, 'People who live in the past have no future.'

"I think there's a point where a lot of times in life people define things in such ways that it really limits them.

"Change is something that's necessary, and I think there's a difference between progress and just motion and stuff," he continued. "And for us, I think one of the things is… Certain bands, you hear the records, and they kind of keep mimicking the same thing, and that's all they know how to do, and that's their comfort zone. And we've always said, a record should be like a chapter in a book; it should always go somewhere. Something you read in a book, it's, like, 'Cool,' and somewhere else, you're, like, 'This is different.' At the end, it all comes together, and then it's, like, 'Woah! This is great!' And I think in a situation like this, we're playing a festival and we're playing songs. This song is 30 years old, this one's a year old, but nobody sits there and goes, 'Wow! That's old. This and that.' And I think that's when you do something for the right reason — when you don't try to fit into trends and things like that. Then you're gonna have longevity."

In the early '80s when the legendary SUICIDAL TENDENCIES formed, punk rock was not very welcoming to "new ideas" — especially from a new crew that were obviously not worried about fitting in. But SUICIDAL TENDENCIES weren't there to be "accepted," and not only played their own "STyle of Cyco Punk," but reinvented the DIY attitude to a level never seen before with their distinctive look and sound. For 35 years, SUICIDAL TENDENCIES haven't worried about what other bands or people were or weren't doing. They didn't ask for permission, nor did they care who it offended. They did what they wanted, but most importantly for the right reason, because it's what they felt, not because they wanted to be liked.

SUICIDAL TENDENCIES' latest release is "STill Cyco Punk After All These Years", which came out September 7. It is a re-recording and re-imagining of a Cyco Miko (Mike Muir) solo album recorded in 1995, "Lost My Brain! (Once Again)". The album is an auditory time capsule — a full-on Cyco Punk record taken to a whole new level — featuring legendary drummer Dave Lombardo brutally beating the songs and sound that is made to get your slam on!

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