RNC Protest Kickoff

The Cooperage

A benefit to raise funds for freedom fighters.

Racetraitor is an American <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hardcore_punk" title="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hardcore_punk" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">hardcore punk</a> and <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heavy_metal_music" title="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heavy_metal_music" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">metal</a> band originally from <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chicago" title="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chicago" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">Chicago</a>, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Illinois" title="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Illinois" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">Illinois</a>. The band attracted controversy in the late 1990s, before any releases, as a result of their radical take on <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Racial_politics" title="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Racial_politics" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">racial politics</a>, which focused on ideas like <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Systemic_racism" title="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Systemic_racism" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">systemic racism</a> and <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/White_privilege" title="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/White_privilege" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">white privilege</a> before they were widely discussed topics in popular or <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Underground_culture" title="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Underground_culture" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">underground culture</a>. Racetraitor was also a key proto-metalcore act, one of the first few bands to incorporate <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Extreme_metal" title="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Extreme_metal" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">extreme metal</a> influences, such as <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Death_metal" title="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Death_metal" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">death metal</a>, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grindcore" title="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grindcore" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">grindcore</a>, and <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doom_metal" title="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doom_metal" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">doom metal</a>, into hardcore.------- Pillärs is a crust-punk-metal outfit that calls Cleveland home. There’s not much pretty about what they do, but there is power and grit and fury. This is a band that embraces Levis and battle vests and that has no patience for putting on airs. A molotov cocktail of sludge, crust, and doom.-------Infuriate established in 2019, is a Minneapolis Hardcore Crust punk band. It's cold up there.-------Contracharge are a crustpunk band from Chicago, IL.-------It Is Dead are blackened crust punk from Milwaukee, WI.-------World of Fear are Milwaukee hardcore.

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