TEAM RNS PRESENTS

TITLE: Full Circle

LABEL: Cleopatra Records

RIPPER: Team RNS

192kbps - Punk Rock
0hr 48min total- 69.4mb

RELEASE DATE: 2003-04-08
RIP DATE: 2003-04-13

04 drunk on your love             3:23
05 slamming at the club           2:04

07 go to war                      2:15

09 dear john letters              2:10

15 don't be mistaken              2:04
16 intense energy                 1:38

18 broken string instrumental (.. 1:50
19 brain bondage (live)           1:13
20 secret sex (live)              1:26
21 slamming at the club (live)    2:04
22 salty leather (live)           2:30

Agression was part of the first wave of
skatepunk bands to emerge from southern
California in the early '80s. These
groups were on the front lines of a
new union between the skateboard and
punk rock cultures, which were put on a
path to convergence by the establishment
hassling each group. The resulting music
was a confluence of punk's anger and
simplicity, the furious speed of
hardcore, and defiantly smart-assed

Emerging out of Oxnard, CA (which was
such a hotbed of punk and skate bands
that their sound became known as
"Nardcore"), Agression consisted of
vocalist Mark Hickey, guitarist Henry
Knowles, bassist Bob Clark, and drummer
Mark Aber. The unit was one of the first
groups to be involved with the Better
Youth Organization (BYO) -- the
collective started by Shawn and Mark
Stern of Youth Brigade -- and
contributed two songs to Someone Got
Their Head Kicked In, the label's
classic 1982 compilation. Don't Be
Mistaken followed in 1983, chock-full of
rapid-fire skatepunk rhythms.
Contributions to various Mystic Records
compilations followed, with Agression's
sound wavering between skatepunk and
more generic heavy metal; a self-titled
LP on that label appeared in 1985, as
did the "official" bootleg of an
Agression show at the New York club
CBGB. Agression was able to get as far as
CBGB with the aid of their manager,
Scott Hatch, who also managed the more
established hardcore outfit Fear. Around
this point, drummer Aber left the group
for a spot with Angry Samoans. His
departure led Agression and its new
drummer even more toward a metal
influence, as it was Aber's manic
drumming that had propelled the group's
sound. The band continued to appear on
Mystic, releasing Nowhere to Run on the
label in 1996, but the trail of
Agression was unclear until 2003, when
Full Circle appeared on the Cleopatra