Bound For Glory (band)
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Bound For Glory is a Minnesota
Minnesota
Minnesota is a U.S. state located in the Midwestern United States. The twelfth largest state of the U.S., it is the twenty-first most populous, with 5.3 million residents. Minnesota was carved out of the eastern half of the Minnesota Territory and admitted to the Union as the thirty-second state...

-based neo-Nazi
Neo-Nazism
Neo-Nazism consists of post-World War II social or political movements seeking to revive Nazism or some variant thereof.The term neo-Nazism can also refer to the ideology of these movements....

 metal
Heavy metal music
Heavy metal is a genre of rock music that developed in the late 1960s and early 1970s, largely in the Midlands of the United Kingdom and the United States...

 band that was formed in 1989. One of the most active white power bands during the 1990s, their output has tailed off. The band is led by Ed Wolbank, at one time the director of the Northern Hammerskins
Hammerskins
The Hammerskins, are a white supremacist group formed in 1988 in Dallas, Texas.The Hammerskins' primary focus is the production and promotion of white power rock music, and many white power bands were affiliated with the group. The Hammerskins were affiliated with the record label 9% Productions...

 in St. Paul, Minnesota. Erik Banks, Bound For Glory's original vocalist, was murdered in 1993 in Portland, Oregon
Portland, Oregon
Portland is a city located in the Pacific Northwest, near the confluence of the Willamette and Columbia rivers in the U.S. state of Oregon. As of the 2010 Census, it had a population of 583,776, making it the 29th most populous city in the United States...

. The band had their own production company, Bound for Glory (BFG) Productions, which was sold to Panzerfaust Records
Panzerfaust Records
Panzerfaust Records was a Minnesota-based white power record label founded in September 1998 by Anthony Pierpont, Ed Wolbank and Eric Davidson . In 2000, Davidson returned to California and by 2003, Wolbank was focusing more on music production than distribution...

. They also have several side projects, including the NSBM
National Socialist black metal
National Socialist black metal is black metal that promotes National Socialist beliefs through their lyrics and imagery. These beliefs often include: white supremacy, racial separatism, antisemitism, heterosexism, and Nazi interpretations of paganism or Satanism...

 band Before God.

In 1992, along with fellow American White Power band Final Solution, Bound For Glory was one of the first American white power rock bands to play a concert in Europe or abroad, setting a precedent that gained exponentially as the years went on. The concert in Weimar
Weimar
Weimar is a city in Germany famous for its cultural heritage. It is located in the federal state of Thuringia , north of the Thüringer Wald, east of Erfurt, and southwest of Halle and Leipzig. Its current population is approximately 65,000. The oldest record of the city dates from the year 899...

, Germany
Germany
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 had over 4,000 attendees from all over Europe. The concert also included the German bands Störkraft and Radikahl.

Discography

Year Album Label Release Type
1989 Hear My War Cry (Demo 89)
1990 Warriors Glory Rock-O-Rama Records
Rock-O-Rama Records
Rock-O-Rama was a German record label started in 1980 by Herbert Egoldt. The label folded in 1994 after a police raid.Egoldt bootlegged 1950s rockabilly recordings in the early 1970s before starting the Rock-O-Rama mail order service, which was the first significant source for English and American...

LP
1991 When the hammer falls Rock-O-Rama Records
Rock-O-Rama Records
Rock-O-Rama was a German record label started in 1980 by Herbert Egoldt. The label folded in 1994 after a police raid.Egoldt bootlegged 1950s rockabilly recordings in the early 1970s before starting the Rock-O-Rama mail order service, which was the first significant source for English and American...

LP/ CD
1992 Over the top Rock-O-Rama Records
Rock-O-Rama Records
Rock-O-Rama was a German record label started in 1980 by Herbert Egoldt. The label folded in 1994 after a police raid.Egoldt bootlegged 1950s rockabilly recordings in the early 1970s before starting the Rock-O-Rama mail order service, which was the first significant source for English and American...

LP/ CD
1994 The Fight Goes On Resistance Records
Resistance Records
Resistance Records is a record label owned by Resistance LLC, a society closely connected to the National Alliance. It produces and sells music by neo-Nazi and white separatist musicians, primarily through its website...

CD
1996 Behold the iron cross B.f.G. Productions CD
1997 Never Again Thor Records CD
1998 Glory Awaits B.f.G. Productions CD
1998 Requiem Sunwheel Records CD
2000 Hate train rolling Panzerfaust Records
Panzerfaust Records
Panzerfaust Records was a Minnesota-based white power record label founded in September 1998 by Anthony Pierpont, Ed Wolbank and Eric Davidson . In 2000, Davidson returned to California and by 2003, Wolbank was focusing more on music production than distribution...

 / B.f.G. Productions
CD
2000 Last Act of Defiance Panzerfaust Records
Panzerfaust Records
Panzerfaust Records was a Minnesota-based white power record label founded in September 1998 by Anthony Pierpont, Ed Wolbank and Eric Davidson . In 2000, Davidson returned to California and by 2003, Wolbank was focusing more on music production than distribution...

CD
2002 Russian Winter EP
2003 The Best
2004 Us Against the World - Live in Dresden Wotan Records CD
2004 Rolling Through Europe CD
2005 Live and Loud Wewelsburg Records CD
2011 Feed the Machine PC Records CD
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