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Timeline of Christian Punk
This list is not meant as a definitive word on what counts as punk, or even what albums were actually good punk or not. Many of the bands that mixed in sub/related genres to punk - such as new wave, pogo, power pop, thrash crossover, etc - are included here if several people thought of it as punk back when it was released (and the band at least leans towards punk). They may have been wrong (or the band might have done a poor job), but this is more a list of punk and attempts at punk within the Christian music underground. Releases on major labels with national or internal distribution are in bold.
1975
- Death began recording For the Whole World to See. (USA)
1976
- Death - “Politicians in My Eyes” / “Keep On Knocking” (7“) (USA)
1979
- Ishmael United - If You Can't Shout Saved, You'll Have to Face the Penalty (UK)
- Bill Mason Band - No Sham! (UK)
- Moral Support - Just Where It's at Tonight (7”) (Ireland)
- What of the Night - What of the Night? (Ireland)
1980
- Circle One - Demos (USA)
- The Cynics - Beat the Cynics (USA)
- The Reps - Rebel (7“) (Australia)
- Rev Counta & The Speedoze - Life Begins at Thirty (UK)
1981
- The Lifesavors - 3-14-81 live (USA)
- The Lifesavors - Us Kids (USA)
- Moral Support - Zionic Bonds (Ireland) (“Andy McCarroll & Moral Support” in the USA)
- Shots in the Dark comp. (The Graphics, The Stares, Crowd Control, The Magnetics, Mystery Guests, The Predators) (UK)
1982
- The Lifesavors - You and Me (7”) (USA)
- Pax - Pax (USA)
- The Predators - The Predators (UK)
- Rescue - Jesus is the Truth / Get Right (7“) (USA)
- Julio Rey - Unrehearsed Walk (USA)
- Undercover - Undercover (USA)
1983
- Altar Boys - Demo (USA)
- Circle One - Patterns of Force (USA)
- The Predators - Social Decay (UK)
- The Reps - Bad Boy at School (Australia)
- Scaterd Few - Demos (USA)
- Undercover - God Rules (USA)
- The Visitors - Death of a Gunfighter / I'll Never Know (7”) (USA)
1984
- Altar Boys - Altar Boys (USA)
- CIA - “Your Choice” from What's Shakin' (USA)
- Communiqué - Dated (Ireland)
- Group of Individuals - Destroyer of Fun / The Sellout (7“) (USA)
- The Predators - Part Time Soldier (7”) (UK)
- The Predators - Time and Time Again (7“) (UK)
- The Reps - What You Gonna Do About It (7”) (Australia)
- Undercover - Boys and Girls Renounce the World (USA)
1985
- Altar Boys - When You're a Rebel (USA)
- The Crucified - Take up Your Cross (USA)
- G.V.A. - Demo (USA)
- K.G.B. - K.G.B. (USA)
- The Lead - The Lead (7“) (USA)
- Point Blank - Awakening the Sleepers: Live at the Vineyard (USA)
Unknown 1980s
These releases are definitely from the mid-1980s, but the exact release year is unknown.
- Association of the Cross (AotC) - Live at Val’s (USA)
- Association of the Cross (AotC) - Live at Calvary Chapel (USA)
- Dead to Sin - Practice (USA)
- The Circumsized - Products of Rebellion (USA)
- The Faith Injectors - FI (“Live” Demos) (USA)
- Peculiar People - 4-Song Demo (USA)
- Public Confession - Demo (USA)
1986
- Altar Boys - Gut Level Music (USA)
- The Crucified - Nailed (USA)
- Group of Individuals - World Civil War / Police Beat (7”) (USA)
- The Lead - Return Fire (USA)
- The Lead - Automoloch (USA)
- One Bad Pig - A Christian Banned (USA)
- Point Blank (formerly Pontius Pilate and The Pious Punks) - '86 Demo (USA)
- Undercover - Branded (USA)
- The Visitors - Live in Peter’s Room (USA)
1987
- Altar Boys - Against the Grain (USA)
- C.R.O.S.S. - Banned (USA)
- Joe Domikaitis - My Language (USA)
- King James and the Concordances - The Authorized Version (USA)
- The Lead - The Past Behind (USA)
- The Midst - In the Midst (USA)
- Nobody Special - Nobody Special (USA)
- Positive Outlook - No More War! (USA)
- The Predators - Offensive (UK)
- Thee Underdogz - Thee Underdogz (USA)
- The Vast Minority - Gnashing of Teeth (Canada)
1988
- Death Denied - Volume 1 (USA)
- Empty Tomb - To Whom It May Concern (USA)
- Lust Control - This is a Condom Nation (USA)
- One Bad Pig - Smash (USA)
- Undercover - 3-27-87 (USA)
1989
- Altar Boys - Forever Mercy (USA)
- Conviction of Sin - U.S. Decay (Godcore Tapes part 1) (USA)
- Conviction of Sin - Live (Godcore Tapes part 3) (USA)
- The Crucified - Live at the New Order (USA)
- Group of Individuals - Children are the Future / Being Bored (7“) (USA)
- The Lead - Burn This Record (USA)
- Lust Control - Dancing Naked (USA)
- Moral Majority - Live (Godcore Tapes part 2) (USA)
- Nobody Special - Call It Whatever You Want (USA)
- Sanctified Noise - Garage Demo (USA)
- The Toerags - Never Mind the Scallops Here's the Toerags (Australia)
1990
- Altar Boys - Mercy Thoughts (USA)
- Blah - Demo (USA)
- Childhood - Demo (USA)
- Childhood - Three Geeks and a Hippie! (USA)
- The Clear - Live Stomach (New Zealand)
- The Clergy - The Clergy (USA)
- Crashdog - Hard Knocks For Hard Heads (USA)
- Crashdog - HuManE SOciEtY (USA)
- Empty Tomb - Live like a Dead Man (USA)
- Empty Tomb - Raw (USA)
- Immortal Dead - Poisoned by Politics (UK)
- King James and the Concordances - I Do (USA)
- One Bad Pig - Swine Flew (USA)
- The Outcasts - The Outcasts (USA?)
- Sanctified Noise - Oops, I Swallowed My Tongue (USA)
- Scaterd Few - Sin Disease (USA)
- Tone Deaf - Mild Concussion (USA)
- Upside Down Room - Demo (USA)
1991
- Black Cherry Soda - Interesting Life of Mine (USA)
- The Blamed - Pay the Rent (USA)
- The Blamed - Live as They Were (USA)
- The Clergy - Live in Chi-Rho (USA)
- The Clergy - Tender, Soft & Milky (USA)
- Corporate Underground - Beaten Senseless With Cheesy Snacks (New Zealand)
- Deelspeed - Faster Than Death (USA)
- Deelspeed - Ludicrous Speed (USA)
- Empty Tomb - 2 Song Cassingle (USA)
- Empty Tomb - Circle of Power / Cheated (USA)
- Gouge - Gouge (USA)
- Hold True - Focus (USA)
- Lifesavers - Poplife (USA)
- Lust Control - Fun Fun Feeling (USA)
- One Bad Pig - I Scream Sunday (USA)
- Rocks in Pink Cement - RIP Cement Live (USA)
- Sanctified Noise - Grappling With the Electric Bloodhound (USA)
- Scaterd Few - Out of the Attic (USA)
- The Toerags - Somedays / Nightmare on Sesame Street (7”) (Australia)
- Upside Down Room - Upside Down Room (USA)
1992
- Altar Boys recorded No Substitute but didn't release it until 2018 (USA)
- Crashdog - The Pursuit of Happiness (USA)
- Empty Tomb - Live at Denny's (USA)
- Friend or Foe - Friend or Foe (unknown location)
- Juan Galloway - Enter the Rejected (USA)
- Hold True - Fade (USA)
- Ikthus - Fish You Were Here (USA)
- Lust Control - We Are Not Ashamed (USA)
- Rocks in Pink Cement - Good Chief Sohcahtoa in the Eternal Question (USA)
- Stigmata - Stigmata (USA)
- Three Nails - Peace (USA)
- The Toerags - So Long and Thanks for All the Fishcakes (Australia)
1993
- Black Cherry Soda - Chew Your Cud (USA)
- Blaster the Rocket Boy - Live Demo (USA)
- Blenderhead - Blenderhead (USA)
- The Clergy - Fill'er Up Mister (USA)
- The Clergy - Ruami (USA)
- Cricket - Home (USA)
- Cricket - Jim (USA)
- Empty Tomb - Welcome to the Human Race (USA)
- Mondo Cane - Real California Cheese (USA)
- MxPx - Magnified Plaid Demo (USA)
- MxPx - I Like Orange Station Wagons (USA)
- MxPx - Summer Jam '93 (USA)
- MxPx - Magnified Plaid (Circular Files) (USA)
- Prospector Bill - Demo (USA)
- Upside Down Room - Inside Out (USA)
1994
- The Blamed - 21 (USA)
- Blaster the Rocket Boy - Disasteroid (USA)
- Blenderhead - Prime Candidate for Burnout (USA)
- Blenderhead - Live at the Blue Tile Lounge (7“) (USA)
- Brave New Squirrels - EP (USA)
- Crashdog - Mud Angels (USA)
- Cricket - Beans (USA)
- Cricket - Cricket (USA)
- Crux - Crux (USA)
- Don't Spit on Me Vol. 1 (7”) (USA)
- Ghoti Hook - No Date (USA)
- Group of Individuals - Peace Off! (USA)
- Inch Rist - Godspeed (unknown location)
- Lust Control - Feminazi (USA)
- MxPx - Bootleg Casa Recordings (USA)
- MxPx - Pokinatcha (USA)
- MxPx - 17 (7“) (USA)
- Uzziah - Spacedog (USA)
1995
- 12 Point Buck - 18 Wheels & A Dozen Roses (Canada)
- Between Thieves - Thwak! (USA)
- Black Cherry Soda - Grin (USA)
- Blah - Demo (USA)
- The Blamed - Frail (USA)
- Chasm - Squander, Squander The Bright New Dawn EP (USA)
- Coolidge - Demo (USA)
- Crashdog - Cashists, Fascists, and Other Fungus (USA)
- Cricket - Joe Christmas Playing on the Stereo (USA)
- Cricket - Brown Cow (USA)
- Cricket - One Side Has Covers, The Other Side Doesn’t (USA)
- Crux - Failure to Yield (USA)
- Don't Spit on Me Vol. 2 (7“) (USA)
- Ghoti Hook - Boca Grande (USA)
- L.I.G.H.T. - L.I.G.H.T. (USA)
- Lifesavers - Huntington Beach (USA)
- MxPx - Teenage Politics (USA)
- MxPx - //Punk Rock Show //(7”) (USA)
- MxPx - On the Cover (USA)
- Ninety Pound Wuss - Kick You Hard (5”) (USA)
- Officer Negative - Demo (USA)
- One-21 - Demo (USA)
- One by One - Come Back (USA)
- Spudgun - Spudgun (USA)
- Upside Down Room - Upside Down Room (7“) (USA)
- Upside Down Room - 007 Hotel (7”) (USA)
- Upside Down Room - Upside Down Room (USA)
- Wonk Dog - Wonk Dog (USA)
- Yukon Fudge - Sensation Resistance EP (USA)
(…to be continued…)
