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Their music was hard, fast, tight and loud. It contained "taboo" extended guitar solos and stop-on-a-dime tempo changes. They sounded like nobody else. A mix of hardcore west coast punk rock, speed metal (before there WAS such a thing) and the larynx-shredding assault of Burk's vocal missives, their music commanded attention. And they got it. Their single "Fix Me/Hellbound" was the number one requested cut on the legendary college underground station KFJC for the entire year 1983. It was the number two most requested song on San Francisco's mainstream station KQAK (The Quake) the following year, sandwiched in between Depeche Mode and Culture Club, two groups they had absolutely nothing in common with... READ FULL BIO

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Transworld Skateboarding
This nine track delight features the Campbell, California hardcore band, Executioner.  If you've been paying attention, you will realize that Campbell is the home of Lars Fredricksen of Rancid.  This is the stuff li'l Lars grew up listening to some twenty years ago. The band had a... MORE

Zero Magazine
...the event bought together former SJ punk scenesters from as far away as Norway and Germany. Friday featured Ribzy, Executioner and Frontline. All three bands turned in mouth-dropping sets but the standout had to have been Executioner who hadn’t performed together in two decades. Led by frontman Dave Burkes and guitarist Normal, the band ripped though numbers as if they had played only yesterday... MORE

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