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Bad Religion is celebrating 30 years of Bad Religion with five nights this month at the House of Blues Anaheim and a career-spanning setlist—and you’re invited.
Though the band formed in Woodland Hills, Bad Religion helped define Orange County’s punk scene along with other groups like TSOL, Social Distortion and the Vandals. With a current line-up of Greg Graffin, Brett Gurewitz (owner of Epitaph Records who later went on to sign the Offspring), Jay Bentley, Greg Hetson (Redd Kross, Circle Jerks), Brian Banker (a founding member of Minor Threat) and Brooks Wackerman, Bad Religion was many people’s “gateway” punk band in the ‘80s. Bad Religion introduced many to punk music, got them addicted to punk music and kept us there. It was the beginnings of melodic pop punk—that soon-to-be Southern Californian signature sound—but with a hardcore edge.
Suffer, released in 1988, is one of Bad Religion’s most critically acclaimed works, and while the band has some 14 albums to their chronology, it’s been three years since Bad Religion’s last, New Maps of Hell, which reached #35 on the U.S. charts. But rest assured: They may have 30 years under the belt, but there’s plenty more—Bad Religion is currently working on the 15th studio album to be released some time in 2010.
Bad Religion: Wed.-Thurs., 8 p.m., $25-$27.50. House of Blues, 1530 S. Disneyland Dr., Anaheim, 714.778.2583. All ages.
