No Comment (band)
No Comment were an American hardcore punk and powerviolence band from Sherman Oaks, California. The band was active from 1987 to 1993. Originally,the bands name was Nothing Matters.
History
Along with other powerviolence bands such as Crossed Out, Capitalist Casualties and Man Is the Bastard, No Comment were influential in what was known to become the "West Coast powerviolence" scene for their aggressive musical and conceptual take on the hardcore punk genre. The band's vocalist, Andrew Beattie, confessed to liking both the metal and hardcore genres while hating the direction crossover bands such as Dirty Rotten Imbeciles and Discharge took, which combined the two styles. Beattie stated his band "just wanted to show that 'Hardcore' was still alive yet there was no real 'scene in the late 80s'."
Break up
No Comment disbanded in 1993 and Beattie went on to pursue other music projects such as Man is the Bastard, Low Threat Profile,, Dead Language Dead Man's Life. And most recently Bastard Collective with members of M.I.T.B. However some unreleased studio and live recordings were released after this time.
Legacy and influence
Powerviolence, according to Spazz bassist/vocalist, Chris Dodge, peaked in the mid-1990s, around the time No Comment released their celebrated EP Downsided on Slap-a-Ham. XLR8R described Downsided as "a definitive document of powerviolence's beyond-tantrum aggression".
Discography
Common Senseless 7" Downsided 7" No Comment 7" Demo re-release 87-93 LP/CD Live On KXLU 1992 7"