Condemned to Death
SEND PICTURES!!!

Facts and Biography:
This band got together in 1983 around San Francisco.

At the end of that year they released an EP, which is probably their best material. (Please send me its complete tracklist!)

In 1984 the singer left, but the band succeed to released a quite strange LP called Diary of a Love Monster, also with the help of Scott Vilkins, the new vocalist.

Also many famous comps (PEACE & Flipside) featured their songs, but I don't know which line-up recorded them...

I won't copy anything more from their page at Kill from the Heart :P Anyway if someone wants to tell me more about their tours and adventures I'll be glad to write it here!

Musical Review
Their music was very powerful and violent, but all the songs that I still have a sort of "different identity", even if have a strong influence from MDC that makes them sound like many contemporary bands on Radical Records etc

I think they had a sound and songwriting similar to Poison Idea, as well, and they used to tour with this band.
I'd rather say that the influence that I find dimmer was actually the link with previous California Hardcore Bands. There is a similarity with the early Germs and the Rollins-era Black Flag, but seldom there's a glimpse of melody.

So, if I had a chance to ear the opinions of a member of this band, I'd ask him if they intentionally choose to sound like Texas and Oregon bands and to reject the San Francisco and L.A. "ancestry" or if it has been a matter of time, like that they believed that the new thrash sound was evolving outside California, since 1982/1983.

California Special - Bands Page - INDEX