melodic hardcore

Down By Law are a Punk band formed in or around 1990. Frontman Dave Smalley of Dag Nasty fame teamed up with the members of Chemical People for their first album and went through several set changes all around over the years. Starting on Epitaph records with their first self titled LP, DBL continued on Epitaph until "Last of the Sharpshooters" in 1997. A brief stint on Go Kart Records saw the release of "Fly The Flag", and now with their latest release of "Windward Tides and Wayward Sails" in 2003 finds them on Union Label Group.

This is the name of three bands.

The first band:
Hailing from the north western city of Preston are quintet Failsafe. Formed in 2000, early incarnations of the band (formerly known under the moniker 'Duckhunt' after the celebrated arcade game of old) had a ska punk leaning. A reflection of the times around them. The years that followed saw various line up changes until the current line up slotted together in early 2004. Still all only 21 or under the various members have brought their own individual influences & styles to the collective melting pot that is Failsafe today.

There are two bands using the name Deny Everything: 1) Deny Everything is a punk-band from cologne. They have an EP out on Risingriotrecords and a full length called "Fire This Time" on Yoyo Records, too. Their new EP "Speaking Treason" came out on Yoyo as well. They like to play shows. They don't like stupid tough-guy shit because in their book, hardcore is spelled p-u-n-k. 2) A Hardcore band from London UK in the vein of Straight Ahead, SSD and early Agnostic Front. They released one seven inch on Burial Records called Through With This.

The Backup Plan began “officially” in late 2000 when the core members decided to try to take the next logical step with their music, having gone through a transformation in their goals and attitudes and solidifying a line up. The present line up is: Joe Osolin, Dan Brenner, Andrew Jones, and Jeff Tiu. Drawing on array of punk and hardcore influences they established their own style of fast, aggressive, melodic music.