BAD RELIGION "INTO THE UNKNOWN" 1983 EPITAPH EX-/VG+ W/INSERTS RARE OOP LP

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ARTIST: BAD RELIGION

TITLE: “INTO THE UNKOWN”

TRACK LISTING-SEE PHOTOS/BELOW:

It's Only Over When...

3:33

Chasing The Wild Goose

2:48

Billy Gnosis

3:30

Time And Disregard

6:50

The Dichotomy

4:48

Million Days

3:48

Losing Generation

3:37

...You Give Up

3:37

NOTES: The 2nd album released by Bad Religion. The album features a keyboard-heavy prog rock sound which is unlike anything else in their discography. Bassist Jay Bentley quit the band during the recording of the first song and previous drummer Pete Finestone is also absent from the record. Epitaph Records pressed up 10,000 copies of the record which they claim were mostly returned by dissatisfied fans. The returns were stored in the Bomp Records warehouse where Brett Gurewitz's then-girlfriend worked and a number of copies were sold through Bomp, although just how many is disputed. These sales were not authorized by the band or label. Jay Bentley also stated that he and Brett destroyed several boxes of the record and other copies that had been stored in Bentley's mother's basement were ruined by an exploding water heater.

The record has been mostly disowned by the group. Brett Gurewitz, who owns the rights to the record via Epitaph Records, has been particularly vocal about his displeasure with album and long refused to reissue the release. However, the first authorized reissue was included in the Bad Religion vinyl box set released in the fall of 2010.

The song "Time And Disregard" was originally written for a side project that Greg Graffin had with Greg Hetson (who was not a member of Bad Religion at this time) called Greg Greg.

RECORD LABLE: EPITAPH RECORDS

CAT. #: EP1-BRLP2

YEAR OF RELEASE: 1983

RECORD CONDITION: THE RECORD IS IN EX/EX+ CONDITION, NICE SHINEY BLACK LUSTER. NO MARKS OR SCRATCHES, NO SKIPS, BIG POPS, SMUDGES, FINGERPRINTS ETC. ALL LABELS IN PERFECT CONDITION. THIS LOOKS AND PLAYS SUPER CLEAN. NO AUDIO BETWEEN THE TRACKS.

JACKET CONDITION: THE JACKET IS IN VG+/EX- CONDITION, NICE CLEAN STRAIGHT EDGES, NO RIPS, TEARS, WRITING. VERY, VERY TINY CORNER “DING” LOWER RIGHT CORNER. VERY CLEAN.

ALSO COMES WITH THE 8 1/2” x 5 1/2” BLUE PAPER INSERT FROM EPITAPH TO GET THEIR NEWSLETTER WITH UPCOMING RELEASES, ETC. IN VG COND.

INCLUDES THE DOUBLE SIDED LYRIC SHEET WITH BAND PHOTO IN VG CONDION, SMALL “CREASE” LOWER LEFT CORNER (SEE PHOTO)

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BAD RELIGION BAND BIO/INFO-

Quote of the day: “One day you may find that you are also one of me. A complex microcosm of the human race. Observing those around us, desiring to belong. Behind the guise of salvation we suffer along the way.” – Lookin’ In

The complete history of Bad Religion

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Bad Religion have been the role models for many second generation punk bands since the early nineties; they have been around for over twenty-five years and collected a devout and steadily growing fan base. Their provocative lyrics sang on fast melodic though sometimes aggressive guitar playing, backed with harmonies, became their trademark. But how did it all start out? How did this Do It Yourself punk rock band become so influential? Get ready for the complete history of the greatest punk rock band ever!

In 1979, at the age of 15, Gregory Walter Graffin, discovered the radio show Rodney On the Roq on KROQ. This show featured the latest punk and new wave releases from the U.K. and New York. But possibly more important was that the show also played a lot of unknown punk music from the Los Angeles scene. For Greg this show was a revelation; finally he had found something he could identify with. At his school only quite a few other kids were interested in this scene, however just a few of those were proper musicians. One of them was drummer Jay Ziskrout. Together they decided it was time to start a band in their favorite genre. A guitarist was found in Brett Gurewitz from Woodland Hills who was introduced to them through a mutual friend. At that time Brett already played in a new wave band named The Quarks, but he preferred punk music over new wave so it was no problem to quit and join Greg and Jay’s band. Besides that, he also owned an amp and a van.

With the arrival of Brett a new band was born. The trio started to rehearse, but in a few weeks they noticed that there was something missing: a bass player. Jay Bentley, who went to the same school as Greg, became the band’s newest member after Greg had contacted him. Bentley, however, was originally a guitarist, but wanted to be in a band so bad that he agreed to play the bass even though he didn’t know how to play it.
Now completed with Jay Bentley, the band still needed to come up with a name. Several names were considered for instance ‘Smegma’ or ‘Head Cheese’, ‘Vaginal Discharge’ and ‘Bad Family Life’, but finally they agreed that Bad Religion was the best name. The crossbuster insignia became their logo. The idea behind both the band name and the logo weren’t meant to be anti-religious; it was their way to define religion as ‘any kind of social group that prescribes a certain way of thinking.’

Greg Graffin’s garage became the band’s official rehearsal space and was nicknamed ‘The Hellhole.’ They usually rehearsed when Greg’s mother was at work. From the very beginning the band already gathered a small fan base among the local kids who passed by and hang out in front of the garage.

It didn’t take long before the four musicians entered Studio 4 to record their very first demo. This tape was spread around friends; one of them was Lucky Lehrer, drummer with the Southern Californian band the Circle Jerks. When Lehrer was invited to Rodney On The Roq he took the opportunity to introduce Bad Religion to the radio audience by giving the tape to Rodney. In a matter of time Bad Religion debuted as the opening band for Social Distortion.
The band was now set on recording their first EP. To put it out Greg and Brett decided to form their own label: Epitaph. The self titled EP was first recorded in a small studio, run by Ziskrout’s drum teacher. However, the band decided to master their first vinyl at the Gold Star Recording Studio in Hollywood.

With the success of the EP, and a $1000 loan from Brett’s father Richard Gurewitz, the band could now record How Could Hell Be Any Worse, their debut album in 1982. During the recording of How Could Hell Be Any Worse Jay Ziskrout left the band without any particular reason.
As they were halfway finished with the recording, the band needed a drummer to finish it. Without auditioning Pete Finestone, a local Valley guy, became the new drummer. They first practiced a couple of times before returning to the studio to finish the album. The album also featured a guest guitarist: Greg Hetson, guitarist in the Circle Jerks and Redd Kross, who played a solo on one of the tracks.

After the success of How Could Hell Be Any Worse the following year became a breakdown as the band seemed to be falling apart: the punk scene was totally disillusioned, Greg Graffin was getting ready to go to college in Madison, Wisconsin, Brett Gurewitz started (already in 1982) getting into drugs, Pete Finestone left the band to study in England, and Jay Bentley walked out of the studio when they were recording the first song of their second album. The main reason Jay quit the band was that he didn’t agree on the new sound of the band. Greg had gotten a Roland June 6 synthesizer and he only used one polyrhythm which sounded monotonous. Besides the breakdown of the punk scene, Greg also started to see the band more as a hobby than something serious. However, in 1983, the second album Into The Unknown was finished with a new drummer, Davy Goldman, and bassist Paul Dedona.

After recording Into The Unknown Greg moved to Madison to get in-state tuition. Brett had to shut down Epitaph as the label was bankrupt and continued working at Chameleon. Jay Bentley was the only one who was still playing in a band. After leaving Bad Religion he was asked to join T.S.O.L. At that time he also played in a local punk band called Wasted Youth.

When T.S.O.L.’s original bassist returned to the band, Jay left and joined another band called Cathedral Of Tears. But in no time Cathedral Of Tears broke-up and Wasted Youth underwent a change in line-up; Jay was no longer in a band.

Acclaimed Los Angeles punk rock band Bad Religion's new album entitled Age of Unreason is out now on Epitaph Records. Since the group’s formative years they have steadfastly advocated for humanism, reason, and individualism. Now, when these values are in decline and nationalism and bigotry are on the rise, Bad Religion’s message has never been more essential. Age of Unreason delivers a powerful and inspired response - a political and deeply personal treatise on all they believe in.  

“The band has always stood for enlightenment values,” co-songwriter and guitarist Brett Gurewitz explains. “Today, these values of truth, freedom, equality, tolerance, and science, are in real danger. This record is our response.”

The songs on Age of Unreason are both furious and meticulously crafted. There are references to contemporary events; racist rallies, Trump’s election, the erosion of the middle class, Colin Kaepernick’s protest, alternative facts, conspiracy theories, and there are homages to the literary and philosophical works that have long inspired the band.

The track “Chaos From Within” uses the band’s iconic fast, powerful and melodic sound to examine the current border wall controversy with the lyrics, “Threat is urgent, existential / with patience wearing thin / but the danger's elemental / it’s chaos from within.” As co-songwriter and lead singer Greg Graffin says, “Throughout history, walls have been used to keep the barbarians out, But it seems to me that the truly barbaric aspect of a civilization is the chaos that comes from within.”

Age of Unreason is Bad Religion’s 17th studio album and was co-produced by Carlos de la Garza. It is a timely work of immense power and one of their very best. Society’s step backwards has propelled the legendary band decidedly forward. There is an elevated craft in the way the song “Candidate" vividly evokes the current president, “I am your candidate / I am bloody lips and makeup /I'm your caliphate, opioids and mutilation / a celebrity and my name is competition.” Another track, entitled “The Approach,” addresses the possible demise of democracy with the lyrics, “There’s a moral and intellectual vacuum / and you're right to be lookin' askance / philosophically moribund, revolution hasn't a chance.”

This record is both a dire warning and testament to resilience. The overall message being - seek truth about the world and oneself.  As Graffin, who holds a PhD in the history of science, says, “When I saw all these headlines about how terrible our world had become, I started doing a lot of reading. I read about the French revolution, the American Revolution, the Civil War, and I started to recognize that this is a pattern of history and something we should never venture into. There are ample warnings against it. Every school child should know this but it’s hard to get people to read about these things. Maybe this album can help. Because right now, with social media, we are just playing a version of kill the guy with the ball.”

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