Antiseen - N.C. Royalty - 1986
from Chopper/Bona Fide Records LP "Honour Among Thieves", 1988

Don't mind the dirty sound. Everything about this band is dirty. Forget Nirvana, this is grunge, pure and raw.

Antiseen emerged from some back woods shack round about 1983 with a sound that didn't quite fit in North Carolina and was closer to the nastier fringes of the Subpop world around Seattle. These were self proclaimed trailer trash ready to rumble - and they often did. Common practice when I saw them was for singer Jeff Clayton to break off the top of a beer bottle on the mic stand, cut his forehead with the jagged remains, then slam the mic into the wound so that blood would ooze down and envelop his face.

Somehow he and guitarist Joe Young have managed to keep their 'Destructo Rock' going and the band is still playing and releasing albums though the rest of the line up has changed. Over the years, there have been a number of spinoff records under other names plus ones together with upstanding members of society like GG Allin. Doug Throgmorton's gone on to play with other bands including Liquid Devil

"N.C. Royalty," first put out on the band's second release, the Royalty EP was a flip-off to Christian fundamentalist political group Concerned Charlotteans, led by preacher Joe Chambers.

Band members:
Jeff Clayton - vocals
Joe Young - guitar
Doug Throgmorton - drums
Tom O'Keefe - bass

Posted by: Zach Coleman