By Luis Paz. Supplement NO - Pagina 12, March 24, 2011 .- Titles Anti-Flag are chosen for their records very clear: from his debut Die for the Government ("Die for the Government", 1996) until Recent The People or the Gun ("The people or weapons", 2009) accumulate in their discography works as Your system does not work for you , Mobilize or the thunderous The terrorist state, essential album, published in 2003. Musical and discursively, Anti-Flag is one of those crossover punk bands with a foot in the hardcore and one in the thrash, the heirs of Black Flag and Social Distortion, and contemporary to Rage Against The Machine. "It is essential that there are bands with a message that awakens the young people of the United States being forced to go to the army, to accept war, racism and homophobia. Everywhere there are countries or states most progressive States United, that without doubt, "raises his hand Chris # 2, on bass and vocals the group finally arrives in Buenos Aires. "It is said that in Argentina people are not going to shows just for music but for the ideas conveyed by the bands. In most places, boys are only interested go, sounding punk rock, to pogo and that, so I will definitely play against the Argentine public is exciting and refreshing, "plays, looking at her show this Sunday at El Teatro de Flores, one of three that will in his first tour of the region. "So many bands are going to Latin America to recover. We will make this date and only two in Brazil to take advantage of the time. The idea is to enlarge the family of Anti-Flag, not the customer base of the band, "says the fan who could join the group as a bassist in 1999.
The band was founded in late 80s antifascist punk scene in Pennsylvania and, obviously, met with criticism from all sides when, after the success of The Terror State , signed to RCA. "For three years we had established our own label, AF Records, and wanted to learn how to work more professionally. We have done two albums on RCA, we learned as we could, and returned to edit on our own, but with better ideas of how to produce, how to manufacture and how it spread. " How far was actually a deliberate strategy, only they know.
With the political perspective can have a group that called and his records, talking about corruption, symbolic violence, alienation, lust for power and domination in their subjects, and gave him a "hardcore opera" to the invasion of Iraq, Chris # 2 is released, also, to interpret for NO recent popular uprisings in the Middle East. "What happened in Egypt and what we see today in Libya are a fire with the spark of what became the demonstrations against the invasion of Iraq. The revolution does not happen overnight, nor is it an isolated incident but part of a trend. Each hoist has a history and a precedent. remains to be seen how powerful these demonstrations will be. "
addition, members of Anti-Flag are militant vegetarians and for the rights of animals (have acted on behalf of PETA countless times): "That is a kind of revolution that does occur instantaneously, the changes in eating habits," he said. "We are not against those who raise their animals on a farm and then eat them, do not mess with their habits. But with the industrialists, who are violent against all forms of animal life and generate a very serious health problem: we eat malnourished animals, drugs and medications with trash. Does anyone in Argentina know what you eat when you eat a Happy Meal? "
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