Here’s a painfully sweet metal/hardcore crossover blast from 1985 by the ultra-obscure white sneakers crew Radical Behavior. I got this on a tape with Lethal Aggression’s demo from Terror Ken Thunders (the prolific rock animal now known as Ken Sleazegrinder), and he sent me a flyer for the band picturing a bunch of dudes in denim vests. I just wrote him for help, and got a couple hints. “Tom…Tom somebody,” Ken says. “He also had a fanzine called Mutilator. From New York, I think. skate-metal foolishness, from what I remember.”
I could find no mention of this band anywhere on the entire Internets, which is crazy because they definitely hold a zany feedback-dipped candle to Lethal Agression. So while I go dig, please stab yourself in the thigh with this chaotic, goofy six-minute demo. Since only one of the songs is over a minute long, I didn’t even bother slicing apart the songs. “No God, No Devil” is epic! Shades of Napalm Death’s Scum, for sure. “Dirty Laundry” is even stupider and shorter than S.O.D.’s “Milk.”
RADICAL BEHAVIOR 8-song demo 1985 [8.7MB MP3]
1. Radical Behavior
2. You Suck
3. Unknown #1
4. No God, No Devil
5. Car Crash
6. Unknown #2
7. Dirty Laundry
8. Jealous Loser
Maybe you know more? Fill us in! What’s the deal with Rad Behavior, and where can I get a shirt?
UPDATE: While working on Tony Rettman’s book STRAIGHT EDGE: A Clear-Headed Hardcore Punk History, we learned that Rad Behavior guitarist “Tom” was none other than NYHC luminary Tom Capone of Bold, Crippled Youth, Shelter, Quicksand, and many other bands. He also did the pioneering extreme metal Mutilator zine in 1985. He has a Manowar hammer tattoo, you can see it in the STRAIGHT EDGE book, he’s the only kid in the book that has one.
Hey.
Can you post some pics of the physical tape of the band? If you have, that is. Where did you find it, anyway?
Collecting myself…’cause I crack me up!