STRIFE: Andrew Kline on In This Defiance, Edge Breaks & Breaking the Rules of Hardcore

This week we’re joined by Andrew Kline, co-founder and guitarist of one of California hardcore’s most important bands: STRIFE.

We dive into the many fateful encounters that had to happen for the band to start in the beginning of the 90s to usher in a new era and new generation of straight edge hardcore. Strife, along with Earth Crisis and Snapcase were eventually considered the original “Victory Records Trinity” and set the standard for what a hardcore band could do worldwide in the mid to late 90s.

We break down their entire discography, including their breakout debut One Truth and their decade-defining masterpiece In This Defiance — all the way up until their breakup and eventual return (and misunderstood statement about no longer being straight edge) in the 2000s.

An incredibly insightful and fascinating window into what is now an underrated band, but one that has seen what the top of the mountain of hardcore music has to offer.

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00:00:00 - Start
00:01:49 - Andrew Kline
00:09:34 - Finding Hardcore
00:19:57 - The Long, Beautiful Story of How Strife Begins
00:32:13 - xStand As Onex
00:42:20 - The Early Days of Strife
00:53:51 - Plan X Records & Guilty Party
00:56:25 - Victory Records & The Only The Strong Compilation
01:03:22 - ONE TRUTH
01:09:46 - Touring Relentlessly & Sick of it All
01:31:01 - Strife As A Career & The Birth of Today's Hardcore Economy
01:45:19 - Gearing Up for In This Defiance & Meeting Sepultura
01:56:41 - IN THIS DEFIANCE
02:01:09 - Blistered
02:15:09 - Strife Breaking Edge and Breaking Hearts
02:25:27 - In This Defiance & It's Impact on Victory
02:33:34 - Touring Killed Strife
02:40:02 - Bringing Back Strife (Angermeans)
03:03:11 - Rapid Fire: Strife Edition
03:08:17 - Top 4 Hardcore Records