As a DC boy I used to go see these guys all the time

Bad Brains - I Against I
Minor Threat - Out of Step
Rites of Spring - Rites of Spring

Any Cannibal Corpse album. Some song names:
"Mummified In Barbed Wire"
"Torture Through Orgasm"
"Eaten from the Inside"
Yum.
GWAR "Maggots"

Did you get to see the drunk ass Boston punks fighting and the strait edge fuckers starting alot of shit?

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I have to agree with the OP. River Runs Red by Life of Agony. Listening to the downward spiral of the "character" and then the suicide at the end. One of the most in your face and mind opening albums ever. The rest of LoA's stuff was horrible, but this album is probably one of the greatest hardcore albums

The DC scene was sooooooo strait edge and politically correct it kind of made me batshit, but the bands would literally stop playing and call poeple out of there was any kind of a fight.

Fugazi would even stop songs to control the pit. Very responsible. Not very fun. But every show was FREEEEEEEEEEEE!

Madball, Crucial Youth, Kraut!!! Does anyone remember NIHILISTICS

Cro-Mags - Age of Quarrel

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