Bad Religion is an influential punk band, known for it's fast guitar and drum beats, melodic vocals, and controversial lyrics. The band was founded in 1980 in Los Angeles, California, by frontman Greg Graffin, Jay Bentley on Bass, Jay Ziskrout (drums), and Brett Gurewitz playing the guitar. On 1981, they released their first EP, in Gurewitz's newly formed record label Epitaph Records. In 1982, they proceeded to debut with their first full-length album, also on Epitaph, "How Could Hell Be Any Worse?". During this recording process, Ziskrout apparently had a disagreement with the rest of the band and left, to be replaced by Peter Finestone. Graffin, the fron tman, is not a usual punk band front man. He has a Master's degree in Geology from UCLA and a Ph.D in zoology from Cornell University. He heads the evolutionism project at Cornell (Cornell Evolution Project.org) The band released "Into the Unknown" in 1983, which was extremely unpopular with the fans and was discontinued (even though now is seen as a collector's item and goes for more than a hundred dollars on eBay). This was a more psychedelic type of rock, totally contradictory to the Bad Religion "spirit". Later on in 1985, they released the "Back to the Known" EP, returning to their famous and unique sound. The band disbanded a short while after this. In 1987, the band got back together and continued to make great music that defined a generation of the punk rock scene, even through today. Most of the popular punk bands today, owe a lot to Bad Religion. Even the few legendary punk bands that are still around; Pennywise, Millencolin, Lagwagon, and a few others, accredit their sound to this punk rock icon.

In our opinion, Bad Religion is one of the best bands there has ever been. Some people say the new stuff isn't half as good as the old stuff, but we strongly disagree. The lyrical content is just as strong and polemic as it has always been with BR. The contrast of the buzz-saw guitar with the melodic vocals lay the base for smooth sound combined with deep social, political, and economic scene criticism, including the government, international policies, etc, which we find just great. This said, Bad Religion resumed touring this year with their US/Canada 2005 tour to reach the new generation of punk rock music, let's just hope they keep it up and tour constantly.