Amenity
This Is Our Struggle (gold Smoke)
Crisp, heavy, melodic, upbeat, and full of hooks, AMENITY formed in 1986 amongst a chaotic, and often times violent, San Diego punk scene. They are regarded as that city's first straight-edge hardcore band, leading a positive charge that would be influential and respected for years to come. The band (comprised of vocalist Mike Down, guitarist Tim Gonzales, bass player Sergio Hernandez, and drummer Baruch Kellman) quickly built a loyal following of energetic, angst-filled youth, seeking to collectively aspire to lives not represented by the increasingly nihilistic, local punk scene, or by that decade's synth-pop filled radios and TVs. In their existence, AMENITY toured the United States and ventured into Canada before playing a "final" showheadlining to a sold-out crowd at SDSU's Back Dooron November 30th, 1990. In 2009, they reformed for a very short period and recorded four tracks for Gravity Records that never made it into production. Collected here is an anthology of the recordings made between 1989-2009.