Indigenous Punk: A Definitive Guide to the Native, Aboriginal, and Pacific Islander Metal and Rock 'n' Roll Musicians Who Changed Music
Adapt the dominant culture on your own terms
Native artists have always been central to hard, heavy music: surf rock, hard rock, heavy funk, straight edge, thrash, rap metal, grunge, grind core, and especially black metal. Natives have made their own uniquely Indigenous hard music forms, prehispanic metal in Latin America, Navajo rez metal, and experimental ambient metal in the far north.
Beginning with Link Wray's trailblazing guitar sound that gave birth to punk and metal as we know them today and culminating in contemporary acts like the all-female, Māori doom metal and punk band Death and Hatred to Mankind, this eye-opening, encyclopedic history of Native bands and musicians spans the last 60 years. Historian and professor Al Carroll teaches us to listen critically to spot imposters and bigotry, while celebrating the explosion of Indigenous bands during the rise of thrash and later nu-metal, how Native artists in the so-called U.S. gained popularity and radio play overseas while their releases were censored in the States, and the "harder than you" grit of bands originating on Pacific islands.
There's something in this book for every hard music fan. Pick it up if you're looking for a new way to see the music and culture around you or inspiration to create something of meaning to your own community and roots. Get ready to learn about your new favorite band, deepen your understanding of the music you love, and think critically about the dominant culture.
List of U.S. bands, by state:
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Alaska: Ataxeta
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Arizona: Akklamation, Alliance, Apocryphal/Koneq, Ashtaroth, Bad Fix, Blackfire, Black Twilight Circle, Born of Winter, Celestial Kills, Creosote, Dying Tribe, Ends Embrace, Enemy Machine, Ethan 103, Ethnic De Generation, 5 Cellars Below, Flossies, Graves of the Monuments, Guardians, Hell Throne, Heresy, Homeland/Zurg, Hunters Moon, I Don’t Konform, Isnaahi, Lilith, Lo-Cash Ninjas, Malia Oscura, Merciless Indian Savages, Morbithory, Murder Rate, Mutilated Tyrant/Gods Remain, Nebulous, Ocean Harvest, One Bullet Away, Parabola/Black Plague, Sagorith, Signal 99, Six Million Dead, Tribal Kills, Under Exile, Voice Eater, Yeeitsoh
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California: Isataii/Kvlt of Odium, Lose None, PeriodEater, Redbone, Resistant Culture, Taripay Pacha, Terrorizer, Testament, Tezkatlipoka, Turquoiz Noiz, Uniform Choice, Xibalba, Warpath, Winterhawk
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Colorado: Dead Pioneers, Senewa
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Florida: Blackfoot
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Illinois: Ancient Gods, Feral Vision, Guerrero Nomada
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Maryland: War Injun/Internal Void
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Massachusetts: Ushangavus
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Minnesota: Pretendians Band, Sangre y Tierra
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Montana: Goddammitboyhowdy, War Cry
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New Mexico: Blood Wolf, Cosmic Beams, Death Convention Singers, Death Mantra, Lincoln Street Exit/XIT, Horned Warrior, Paranormal Slaughter, Poison Insanity, Raven Chacon, Sage Cornelius, Secret Earth, Shadow Remain, Suspended, Testify, War Water Weedrat
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New York: Blackbraid
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North Carolina: Cold Moon Strange Heart, Decolonized, Link Wray
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North Dakota: Systems Victims
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Oklahoma: Medicine Horse, Sledge
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Oregon: Damage OverDose, 1876, With War
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Pennsylvania: Migauss
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Rhode Island: Taino
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South Dakota: Mahpiya Luta, The Reddmen
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Texas: Hunhau Mitnal
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Washington: By All Meanz, End of Dayz, Hisemtuks Hemi N, Land Lost
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West Virginia: Nechochwen
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