Pestpocken is an Street Punk

Street punk

Street punk is a working class-based genre of punk rock which took shape in the early 1980s, partly as a rebellion against the perceived artistic pretensions of the first wave of British punk. Street punk emerged from the Oi! style, performed by bands such as Sham 69, Angelic Upstarts, Cockney...

 band from Germany. The band is a less-popular band that is more regionally known around the German state of Hessen, where they originally are from.

History

Founded in 1997, the original band members were Andrea (guitars and vocals), Danny (guitars and vocals), Mirmo (bass guitar), and Stine (drums). As the band's website states http://www.maniac-attack.de/Pestpocken/frames.html, they "started the band due to free concert visits, chronical boredom and uncontrolled aggression, we turned Stine's bedroom into the band's practicing room to once again tyrannize the neighborhood." The band's practicing room moved a few times, until it was finally moved into a bunker/cellar of an empty, worn-down apartment, called the AK 44.

Music

Pestpocken is mainly inspired by many German anarcho-punk bands, and the hardcore punk rock of the 1982's. Their songs are mainly about them being fed up with the government, as one song states "Dieser Staat muss Sterben!" (This state must die!). They have also toured with more known bands such as the Casualties

The Casualties

The Casualties are an American street punk band from New York City, New York, formed in 1990.-Biography:The Casualties members aimed to return to what they viewed as the "golden era" of street punk, embodied by bands such as The Exploited, Charged GBH , which they believed had disappeared by...

 in 2000 and Dead End Boys in 2006. The band was also in the German punk video "Chaostage" (Chaotic days).

Discography

• 1997: Giessen Asozial (Demotape)
• 1998: Freiheit oder Tod (7"-EP)
• 2000: Virus BRD (7"-EP)
• 2003: Pestpocken / Bad Nasty (Split-LP, später auch auf CD veröffentlicht)
• 2004: Die schlimmste Seuche aller Zeiten (MC
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   mit älteren Aufnahmen)
• 2007: Kein Ausweg (CD/LP)

Compilations

• 1998: Punk aus Hesse' 'uff die Fresse! 1 (7"-EP)
• 2000: Missing in Action (LP)
• 2000: Punx Unite - International Chaos (LP)
• 2004: Rossiski PUNK (CD)
• 2005: Punk aus Hesse‘ ‘uff die Fresse! 2 (LP)
• 2006: Schlachtrufe BRD Vol.8 (CD)