THE HATED - Best Piece Of Shit Vol. 4 DLP Instrumental playing trumpet in the school

playing trumpet in the school band and jazz band

disturbed psychedelic Messiah figure with a black widow spider tattooed on his third eye

A pummeling fusion of crusty grind

Stand out It’s Your House is pure honey pouring from the speaker on a bank of of arps and near-hymnal vocal layering

and STEPHEN O'MALLEY

THE HATED - Best Piece Of Shit Vol. 4 DLP Instrumental playing trumpet in the schoolDraped in a flag of patriotic shame, the Hated stormed onto the scene just as D. C.'s Revolution Summer was swerving out of control. Channeling Bad Brains' Black thrash and Hsker D's zen approach to hardcore, Dan Littleton, Erik Fisher, Colin Meeder, and Mike Bonner synthesized their own version of what became emo in 1985. Remastered from the original analog tapes, Best Piece Of Shit Vol. 4 compiles their D. I. Y. debut cassette, the No More We Cry