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Deus Ex Machina (punk band)
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Hardcore punk
Hardcore punk is an underground music genre that originated in the late 1970s, following the mainstream success of punk rock. Hardcore is generally faster, thicker, and heavier than earlier punk rock. The origin of the term "hardcore punk" is uncertain. The Vancouver-based band D.O.A...
band from Athens formed in 1989 by Dimitris Spyropoulos and Dimitris Manthos, with Spyropoulos and Yiannis Venardis (the group's drummer
Drummer
A drummer is a musician who is capable of playing drums, which includes but is not limited to a drum kit and accessory based hardware which includes an assortment of pedals and standing support mechanisms, marching percussion and/or any musical instrument that is struck within the context of a...
) having already been early Greek Punk
Greek punk
The Greek punk scene was small but powerful in the Greek capital, Athens, in the 1980s. Bands like Adiexodo , Genia Tou Chaous , Stress, Panx Romana, Ex-humans, Anti functioned as a bunch of related bands, who gave concerts together, in the same locations...
scene's 'veterans' (they were members of Adiexodo
Adiexodo
Adiexodo was a Greek Punk band from Athens formed in 1983 by Dimitris Spyropoulos, Sotiris Theocharis, Stathis Papandreou, and Mimis Alimprantis...
).
The band's lyrics are often political having references to subjects such as the War on Iraq and the Mexican Zapatista Army of National Liberation
Zapatista Army of National Liberation
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movement.
Discography (selected)
- Motorpsycho (Hitch Hyke 1990)
- Worlds Apart (Hitch Hyke 1993)
- Different? (EPExtended playAn EP is a musical recording which contains more music than a single, but is too short to qualify as a full album or LP. The term EP originally referred only to specific types of vinyl records other than 78 rpm standard play records and LP records, but it is now applied to mid-length Compact...
, Hitch Hyke 1997) - Signs (Hitch Hyke 2003)
- Time Expires (EP , The Lab 2007)
Band members
- Stavros X (vocals)
- Dimitris Spyropoulos (guitar)
- Tolis Polichroniadis (guitar)
- Dimitris Manthos (bass)
- Kostas Petrou (drums)