Sore Throat

Bio:

This is the official page for all your Sore Throat needs. A fan (that's me, Davida Loca) maintains this myspace page. Send all your inquiries/questions through the Sore Throat page and I'll see what I can do for you.

And for the record, this page was indeed created on 6/6/06... suck on Satan's raddish!

..Who In The Fuck Were Sore Throat?:..

Sore Throat formed in 1987 in Yorkshire, United Kingdom with one goal in mind: play loud and drunk noise. Call Sore Throat an "anti-all star" group of punkers from other bands like Doom, Deviated Instinct, Extreme Noise Terror and whatnot who have had their fair share of being in the "scene" for a while.

Sore Throat were an early crust/grindcore style band with a huge punk rock attitude. They are known as one of the first bands to innovate a style of grindcore called "noisecore". Though they seem very forgotten, they were apart of the hardcore/grindcore movement of the mid-late 80's in the United Kingdom and known for their "fuck you" attitude, harsh humor and ridicule in their music about other bands, society and so on. They sometimes were seen as a parody band while at times, they were also seen as a drunk political punk band. They were also one of the first known bands to incorporate many sample use in their music.

Some topics Sore Throat tackled lyrically in their music ranged from their distaste for Nazi's, capitalism, straight edges, and even taunted such bands like ..D.R.I..., ..S.O.D..., ..Napalm Death.., ..Suicidal Tendencies.. and so on. While the band talked a lot about corruption, they did have messages in their music which typically talked about being pro-vegetarian, pro-alcohol and definitely pro-hardcore music. They weren't really a band set to make history or make a stand in the punk community... they just wanted to get drunk, make noise and be the "craziest" band they could. They served as a band who pointed out what was "wrong" with the hardcore punk scene back in those days, especially heavily criticizing and slandering ..Napalm Death.. and ..D.R.I... constantly in their music.

Early demos and EP's, like the self titled (aka the "Death To Capitalist Hardcore" EP in 1987) were raw sounding and... well, messy sounding to say the least and most songs were always under a minute long. Most songs were blast-beat style grindcore.

The band's breakthrough and first full length LP, "Unhindered By Talent" in 1988, demonstrated the raw power and noise Sore Throat was capable of making. Some songs were traditional sounding Discharge-influenced hardcore punk anthems while most of the songs were short blast beat songs tending to be under 10 seconds.

Their 1988 LP "Disgrace to the Corpse of Sid" can be constituted as one of the earliest experimentations in grindcore and hardcore music, taking a very "anti-music" stance; even more "anti-music" than most other fast style grindcore acts at that time. They incorporated distortion, blast beats, screams and grunts, and loads of sound effects. Up to this point, Sore Throat was seen as one of the earliest examples of noisecore music. Though the album was crazy in a unharmonized sense, the B side of the LP featured a doom style crust punk in the vein of Amebix.

Their last full length "Never Mind The Napalm... Here's Sore Throat" (1989) is seen as a more crust hardcore punk album with doom laden moments, not having a "noisecore" style like their last album and the album wasn't as grindcore as past releases. This release was the closest that Sore Throat came to being more straight up crust punk.

Upon future releases, they went under different names like "Soar Throat" and "Saw Throat" and released such albums like "Inde$troy", which was one whole long song comprised of doom punk, crust punk and even industrial.

The band has been broken up since 1990 due to conflicting problems within the band...

There will be no reunion. Ever. Fuck the world.



..Official Musick Discography:..

- Aural Butchery demo (1987)
- Death To Capitalist Hardcore EP (aka self titled EP) (1987)
- Noise Annoys demo (1988)
- Unhindered By Talent LP/cassette (1988) (Cassette came with 42 extra tracks, these being the "Death To Capitalist Hardcore" EP.)
- Disgrace To The Corpse Of Sid LP/CD (1988)
- Inde$troy LP/CD (the band went under Saw Throat for this release) (1988)
- Never Mind The Napalm... MLP/cassette (European edition: 60 tracks, USA edition: 16 tracks) (1989)
- Soar Throat EP (the band went under the name Soar Throat for this release) (1989)
- And We Don't Care compilation CD (1989)
- Poison Idea/No Handle Beer demo (two Poison Idea covers and one original track) (1989)
- Death to Capitalist Halmshaw compilation CD (featuring all Sore Throat demo tracks, Death To Capitalist Hardcore EP and rare live material and unreleased stuff) (2006)


..Samplers/Compilations Sore Throat Terrorized:..

- A Vile Peace LP (Peaceville)
- Spleurk LP (Meantime)
- Grindcrusher LP (Earache)
- The Hysterical Years LP (Manic Ears)
- Six Ways 7" LP (German Label)
- Summertime Sampler 7" Flexi (Skateboard magazine)
- Volnitza LP (1 In 12 Records)


....Bootleg.. Shit:..

- Abraham's Ear 7" EP (Aural Butchery demo re-released plus bonus live tracks)
- Death To Capitalist Hardcore EP (bootlegged 3 times with red/black sleeve)
- Death To Capitalist Grindcore LP
- Death To Capitalist Thrashcore LP
- F.O.A.D. studio/live LP (first half of this release is Rich's post-Sore Throat band Sludgelord)
- Algo Que Nunca Fue CD
- Encerrado En El Trago CD
- Never Mind The Napalm... CD
- Disgrace To The Corpse Of Sid CD (according to Rich, the copy from Japanese label Toy's Factory)


..Drunken (And Official) Support Provided By:..

Get fookin' reel official Sore Throat merchandise shit here!

..Note:.. Add Sore Throat to your top friends by searching for the e-mail address ..NeverMindTheNapalm@hotmail.com.. in the "change top friends" list. And no, this isn't my personal real e-mail address and no inquiries will be answered at that address because I never use it.

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Member Since:

June 06, 2006

Members:

..First Line Up (1987-1988):..

Rich Militia - Shouts
Brian "Bri" Talbot - Guitar
John Doom - Bass
Nick Royles - Drums


..Second Line Up (1988-1990):..

Rich Militia - Shouts
Brian "Bri" Talbot - Guitar
John Doom - Bass
Paul "Hammy" Halmshaw - Drums


..Past Projects?:..

- John Doom once played for the legendary Doom on bass and vocals, Pelvic Thrust, Police Bastard, and Cain.
- Brian Talbot used to be involved in Doom also as well as Pelvic Thrust, Metal Motherfuckers From Mars, Ackworth St. Chaos Front, Warfear, Bugeyed, Woodhouse Rejects, Vitural Reality, Blood Sucking Freaks, Stalingrad, and Devils.
- Rich Militia had a side-project band during early 1990 called Sludgelord, who appeared on the first half of the "F.O.A.D." bootleg. He's can also be heard playing guitar for bands like Wartorn and Warfear.


..So Where In The Hell Are They Now?:..

- Rich Milita (real name Richard M. Walker) is apart of various doom metal bands today playing guitar for doom metal band Solstice and epic heavy metal band Isen Torr. Richard also runs the "infamous" underground label The Miskatonic Foundation which promotes doom metal bands and some old school hardcore.
- Brian Talbot plays in doom metal band Lazarus Blackstar (once went under the name Khang.)
- John Doom is now a radio DJ at Kerrang Radio. He also currently plays for hardcore band Haxan.
- Nick Royles runs an Anarchist book mailorder.
- Paul Halmshaw is a drug dealer and businessman... ahem, for ..Peaceville.. Records.


....Fun.. Boring Fact(s):..

- Rich Militia was known for doing some early guest vocals for ..Naplam Death.. during live shows at the now infamous Mermaid Club in Birmingham, UK. It was evident that Sore Throat heavily slandered ..Napalm Death.. on later album releases.

- Some other bands Sore Throat were known for mocking in songs were the likes of ..Suicidal Tendencies..., ..D.R.I..., ..S.O.D..., ..O.L.D... Black Sabbath and others. Notice that most of the bands Sore Throat made fun of were "crossover" style bands, a musical style Sore Throat was against (the song "The Crossover Is Over" summed up Sore Throat's feelings on the genre). Some of the bands they mocked were also once hardcore/grindcore bands later gone death metal, which was seen as selling out.

- Other things Sore Throat did was mock fellow musicians in the hardcore scene like Sid Vicious (of Sex Pistols), Hammy Halmshaw (..Peaceville.. Records, once played for Sore Throat), John Pickering (ex-Doom vocalist), Heresy, Mick Harris (ex-..Napalm Death.. drummer, current Scorn member), Stick (Doom drummer) and others. Most of the mocking the band did of musicians were usually inside jokes and not necessarily negative. These "musician's slanders" weren't necessarily in songs (unless it was songs like "Stick's Underwear", "Hammy's Ego" or "The Ballad Of 'Mad' Mickey") but can be found in the linear notes of Sore Throat releases. For example, the first side of the "Disgrace To The Corpse Of Sid" LP was to be named "Jon Pickering Likes To Masturbate A Lot." You get the idea here, you have to find these jokes yourself in their releases.

- Sore Throat has been credited as being one of the first bands ever to incorporate various samples in their music. They're also credited as innovating the subgenre of grindcore called noisecore.

- Sore Throat has also been known to go under other names like Saw Throat and Soar Throat.

- The band has done many cover versions of songs for various bands. Some of these songs are: "War System" by Shitlickers, "Channel Zero Reality" by Antisect, "A.A." and "Marked For Life" by Poison Idea, "Silver Kerching" which is a parody on the song "Silver Machine" by Hawkwind, another parody type cover called "Iron Lung" which is actually "Iron Man" by Black Sabbath, and "Two Horrendous Nuclear Arsenals" which is another parody type song of "Two Monsterous Nuclear Stockpiles" by Discharge.

Influences:

..The Usual Shit:..

Booze & beer, ..capitalism.., ..corrupt.. society, ..politicians.., thrashing, ..facism.., ..Nazis.., ..police bastards.., ..authority.., anarchy, real hardcore...


..The Bands:..

Discharge, Larm, Shit Lickers, Siege, Chaos U.K., Disorder, Deep Wound, Seven Minutes Of Nausea, Histeria, Thug, Swans, Coil, Black Sabbath, Melvins, Hellhammer, G.I.S.M., Amebix, Dead Kennedy's...


..The Bullshit:..

..S.O.D..., ..Suicidal Tendencies.., ..Napalm Death.., ..D.R.I..., ..M.O.D..., the punk & metal scene and ..sellouts...

Sounds Like:

Noise, not ..music..!!!!

Record Label:

Acid Rain, Manic Ears, Earache, Weasel...