The Best Bands You've (Really) Never Heard, part 2

[janradder]

Imagine if R.E.M., Hüsker Dü, and Minor Threat all go together to form a band. You'd have the mid to late eighties Annapolis band, the Hated. With guitar riffs and bass lines reaching amphetamine-level speeds while a drummer pounded out a skanking hardcore beat and a pair of singers shouted, screamed, sang and harmonized as if they only had seconds left to live, this is what emo was before it was co-opted and distorted by pop-punk posers who then turned it into a dirty word (or at least a lame-ass musical genre).

If you're looking for more after hearing these small samplings, this blog post has it all.