U.S. Chaos – We’ve Got The Weapons Re-Release
Punk Rock Records For Immediate Release 04-19-24
Re-mastered By Marty Munsch, U.S. Chaos “We’ve Got The Weapons” Album Re-Release is available on Itunes, Youtube, Sound Cloud, Amazon, Spotify, Pandora and various others, also be available as CD and possibly a few breakouts of undisclosed 45 RPM single tracks on PRR. Marty Munsch later co-engineered and produced a second major release, L.P. for U.S. Chaos,”You Can’t Hear A Picture“, which gained much attention and critical acclaim from press worldwide that also led to videos and other singles. The group will be releasing more material and are currently working from Inner Ear Studio, in Arlington, VA and Cloud Factory Studios in Northern NJ. Release for this will Be at Jimmy’s Bar and Lounge, in Kearney, New Jersey on May 11Th With Fear Gods, Poision IV, Pinheads, Mo and The Momo’s Billy Liar, and other groups Tba. Directions to get there because it will be sold out.
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U.S. Chaos are an American punk rock band from Paterson, New Jersey, United States, formed in 1981 from remnants of first wave punk outfits The Radicals in 1978 then The Front Line in 1979. They are the first American band to introduce United States, to the Oi!/street punk style. Irony is although they never chant it in their music, the band’s approach was to play music with lyrics that had an overtly right-wing prose and sense of American patriotism. It hit hard; probably harder than it was expected then it just stuck like radioactive fallout. They often played recordings of military marches and air raid sirens before going on stage. U.S. Chaos are considered pioneers without a doubt, an institution reguarding New Jersey as well as New York and alot of Pensylvania Punk history, where they drew a massive fanbase from on the starting line. So as the legacy goes, “The Radicals” with Gary Reitmeyer, Glenn “Spikey” Mayer would separate with Alex Kinen, who would later have morphed full circle, to cause the first legitimate hardcore-punk genre split in history, predating all others, to form Cause For Alarm and Agnostic Front.
1983, U.S. Chaos supported performances on the first American tour leg with The Exploited and Iron Cross. Later on a massive bill with The Exploited, U.K. Subs and Cro-Mags at The Rock Hotel at the New York City Ritz. The lineup at this time was Skolski on vocals, Gibson on bass, Spike Glenn Mayer on drums, Gary Reitmeyer on guitar and Brian Daley (HC) on rhythm guitar. Their first release was the We’ve Got the Weapons, a vinyl EP released in 1983 that was received with immediate worldwide praise and outrage because of its war-hawkish cartoon graphics and overwhelming professional commercial appearance; that bucked the system of punk and went directly for the throat. It was a punk first. That was created by genius graphic designers Terry Keenan and Mark Jewell. It’s production, including recording and printing by Ross Eliss, cost them $5,000, which was unheard of in the American punk scene at the time, who were defiant. The drew absolute outrage from locals in New York City, New Jersey and the rest of the worlds music and professional industry types alike. The rest is history.
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