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SIEGE!!! THOSE WHO WERE AHEAD OF TIME!!! People watch out!!! For the second time at the Battlefield we will have these true pioneers of extreme music, SIEGE!!! Chaps who have been pulling it together since 1981 and who have influenced the worldwide grind/hardcore scene with names like Napalm Death, Converge or Lärm for example. It doesn't matter if you call their music grindcore, hardcore or power violence, but the fact is, that SIEGE were ahead of their time and are still grinding it into us today with incredible speed and energy that even their much younger colleagues could envy!!! Those who saw their performance at Obscene Extreme in 2019 will surely agree with us!!!


SIEGE really crushed the OEF back then and moreover they loved it here and we are really excited to announce these forefathers of extreme for the 25th annual event where they will be one of the guests of honor!!! Because without them grindcore would definitely look different!!!

Bio

1983 - 4 teenagers in a church cellar jamming space in their suburban mill town of Weymouth, Massachusetts USA first create the hellish, anti-establishment dissonance now known as SIEGE, and in the process hammer home one of the key cornerstones in the initial development of our beloved Grindcore genre.

Their ‘Drop Dead’ cassette upped the intensity of their Boston Hardcore Punk predecessors with a more unleashed harshness and aggression, fueled by their raging non-conformist and anti-war lyrical statement. The now-legendary 3 tracks on artist Pushead’s ‘Cleanse The Bacteria’ compilation lp cemented their place in the hearts of tape-trading and extreme music-worshipping freaks worldwide.

Original SIEGE songwriting team Kurt Habelt (guitarist) and Rob Williams (drummer/lyricist) have outlived subsequent side projects as well as two singers (original vocalist Screamin’ Kev Mahoney and his replacement - the now infamous Seth Putnam from Anal Cunt - both passed away in 2011), but these elder statesmen of Grindcore re-grouped for explosive special events starting in 2016 - all leading up to this, the ultimate celebration of SIEGE’s legacy and music here at Obscene Extreme 2019! Joined by seasoned Grind veteran Ben Barnett (from Providence Rhode Island’s Dropdead), this 2-guitar SIEGE attack pummels through their now-timeless classics in a world where their message is more needed than ever: “Break Down The Walls!”


Discography

Release date Release name Media
2014 "Lost Session '91" (2014) - 7", PATAC Records
1985 'Cleanse The Bacteria' compilation lp tracks (1985) - Pusmort label
1984 'Drop Dead' (1984) - cassette, self-released

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