SSD
SSD (or Society-System-Decontrol) is a northeast American band that actively performed (from 1981-85) hardcore, straight edge, aggro, and rock music.
Distinctively more so than most of the U.S hardcore bands that were gaining nationwide popularity in the early 1980s, the impact of SSD was seen as profoundly visceral and subversive.
SSD was considered by its fans to reflect genuine skinhead culture, industrial realism tinged with idealist function, dedicated to freedom of expression and the ability to maintain.
Formed by songwriter/guitarist Allan Barile (then a machinist at the General Electric plant in Lynn, Massachusetts), SSD started performing at smaller venues throughout the greater Boston, Massachusetts metropolitan area in the summer of 1981, boldly carving out the niche for a multicultural, all-ages audience where previously (and most stringently) there had been none.
The band quickly gained notoriety within the local music scene, not only for intense perfomances charged with menacing atmosphere, but also for the provocative antics of its core group of followers, the Boston Crew, whose archetypecal appearance and esoteric mannerisms perfectly augmented the stark integrity of SSD's broadbase appeal.As the band started to record its material, this appeal did much to broaden the ranks of a now burgeoning national underground music community.
The message SSD sent was plain and simple, yet sophisticatedly vital; straightforward honesty toward oneself and others, and an unrelenting brutal iconoclasm toward anything which tries to suppress it, be it drugs and alcohol, unjust authority, or mindless persecution by an ambivilant set of mainstream peers.
In the computer software industry, SSD is an acronym for Software Specification Document (this is a disambiguation clause).
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