Gorilla Biscuits
Formed: 1987
From:
New York City,
NY,
United States
Last Known Status: Regrouped
Latest Gorilla Biscuits News
Below is our complete Gorilla Biscuits news coverage, including columns and articles pertaining to the band. Some articles listed may be indirectly related, such as side projects of the band members, etc.
GEL Premiere New Single "Dicey"
New Jersey-based hardcore band GEL‘s new song “Dicey” has premiered online streaming via YouTube and Spotify for you below. That track is taken from the band’s impending debut full-length named “Only Constant“, due out March 31st via Convulse Records.
GEL have the below live dates announced for 2023: More...
GEL Premiere New Single & Music Video
New Jersey-based hardcore band GEL premiere a new single and music video named “Honed Blade”. The track is off their forthcoming debut full-length “Only Constant“, due out on March 31st via Convulse Records.
You can catch GEL live on the below booked dates: More...
GEL Premiere New Single & Music Video "Attainable"
New Jersey-based hardcore metal band GEL premiere a new single and music video by the name of “Attainable”, taken from their upcoming debut album "Only Constant", which will be out in stores March 31st.
Check out now "Attainable" streaming via YouTube and Spotify for you now below.
You can catch GEL live on stage this year on the below booked dates: More...
Column
Sunday Old School: Gorilla Biscuits
As young metal and hardcore fans, we are constantly told to support our local scene. Often, we do so merely out of local pride, as the groups themselves aren't always particularly noteworthy. However, every once in a while, a local scene features many great bands and can become a worldwide phenomenon and leave its mark on music. It happened in Seattle with the grunge bands like Nirvana, Soundgarden and Alice In Chains, in the Bay Area with thrash bands like Metallica, Megadeth and Exodus and hardcore probably wouldn't be what it is without the New York Hardcore scene, which featured some of the genre's best known bands such as Agnostic Front, Sick of it All and today's featured band, Gorilla Biscuits.
Gorilla Biscuits began life in 1987 in Long Island, founded by schoolmates Arthur Smilios and Anthony "Civ" Civarelli. They took their name from a slang term for quaaludes and initially only meant to use it temporarily, needing a name when they played their first show, which was organised for them by the band Token Entry. The moniker stuck and soon the band began recording demos, which were sold at a local dollar store and began printing their own shirts. More...
Just For Fun
Bernie Sanders To Appear In New NYHC Documentary
This was obviously an April Fool's gag. For the full list of our 2016 jokes, head here.
Presidential candidate and senator of Vermont, Bernie Sanders has been confirmed to appear in a documentary movie about the legendary New York Hardcore scene, entitled, "NYHC - A Revolution." The politician, activist and native of Brooklyn, New York, has apparently long had a connection with the music that helped shape the area and the state and claims that some of his political beliefs were shaped by attending shows from the likes of Agnostic Front and Gorilla Biscuits.
"It just all made perfect sense," Sanders says in an excerpt from the film, "if someone falls in the pit, you help them up. Not everyone was six foot and built, most people couldn't get up when they were knocked flat on the floor so they needed a helping hand. I think that's true of life in America today, not everyone can be king of the pit, but we all deserve the opportunity to mosh."
The senator also confirmed last night at his rally in the Bronx, that he will be using "Us Vs Them" by Sick of it All as his campaign song, citing the values the song promoted as central to his message of co-operation and unity among the working class.
"NYHC - A Revolution" will be the full length successor the sequel, "NYHC," which was filmed in 1995 and released four years later and will feature the same director, Frank Pavich, as well as new interviews with previously featured bands like Madball and the recently reactivated Crown of Thornz, plus bands who only appeared in bonus scenes on the DVD edition such as H20 and Sick of it All.
Report
Fun Fun Fun Fest Day 3: Rock & Hardcore
Past Fun Fun Fun Festivals that I covered featured one or two metal headliners on the black stage and one day dominated by punk. This year the third day of the festival included punk but rock in general was the main flavor of the day. Metal was not the style closing out the Black Stage, but headliner Murder City Devils played hard and heavy. There is something about this band that just fits with the festival, as the Seattle-based band made it’s third appearance. The garage rock group played powerful hooks and electric organ that sounded like The Doors making a soundtrack for a Hammer Horror film. I believe this was their first headline performance at FFF. The band was definitely up to it.
Black N Blue Bowl 2011 Lineup Revealed
The lineup for this year's edition of the Black N Blue Bowl event has been revealed and boasts some of the biggest names in hardcore music. You can check out the list of bands below. The concert will take place on May 28th at Webster Hall in New York City.
The lineup is as follows:
Gorilla Biscuits (Headliners)
Agnostic Front
Sick Of It All
Terror
Absolution
Antidote
Maximum Penalty
Backtrack
Down To Nothing
Take Offense
No Turning Back
Bottom Out