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Sam Black Church (band)

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Associated acts
  
Jet Fuel

Active from
  
1988

Record label
  
Taang! Records

Active until
  
2013

Genre
  
Hardcore punk

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Origin
  
Boston, Massachusetts, United States

Genres
  
Hardcore punk Boston hardcore

Years active
  
1988–2000, 2007, 2013, 2014, 2016–present

Labels
  
Taang! Untangled Wonderdrug

Past members
  
Jesse "Jet" Crandall - Vocals Ben Crandall - Guitar Richard G. Lewis - Bass J.R. Roach - Drums Zack Adrien - Guitar

Albums
  
Let In Life, The Black Comedy

Similar
  
Only Living Witness, Jon Butcher Axis, Pretty & Nice, The Konks, The Neighborhoods

Profiles

Sam Black Church (also known as SBC) is a Boston hardcore band. It was named after the West Virginia community of Sam Black Church.

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History

Sam Black Church were known for their energetic live performances. They played a frenetic blend of hardcore, metal, and thrash and shared bills with bands as diverse as Bad Brains, Clutch, Motörhead, Cro-Mags, Nothingface, Stuck Mojo, and Helmet. They were one of the most popular hardcore bands in the Northeast United States for a period in the mid-1990s.

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After releasing their first three EPs on Taang! Records, Sam Black Church left for Wonderdrugrecords where they remained until the band broke up in 2000.

Sam Black Church reunited for a sold out show on September 22, 2007, at The Roxy in Boston. Unearth, Madball and Darkbuster opened the show.

Sam Black Church played the Hometown Throwdown 16 with The Mighty Mighty Bosstones at House of Blues in Boston December 29th, 2013

Discography

  • Unincorporated (1989)
  • Sam Black Church (1993)
  • Let in Life (1993)
  • Superchrist (1995)
  • That Which does not Kill us...Makes us stronger(1997)
  • The Black Comedy (1998)
  • For We are Many (2001)
  • Songs

    Re-AliveLet In Life · 1993
    Infernal MachineLet In Life · 1993
    Captain Of The WorldUnincorporated - Remastered Reissue · 1992

    References

    Sam Black Church (band) Wikipedia