The
Descendents were the
Buzzcocks‘
equivalent on the early American hardcore punk scene: they were a lot
more melodic than their contemporaries, and they were fronted by a nerd.
But they were much more than that. They invented melodic hardcore (or
melodycore), paving the way for
NOFX,
No Use For a Name, and almost every popular punk band in the golden years of Epitaph and Fat Wreck.
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