The Faction (band)
The Faction is a hardcore punk rock band from San Jose, California. Pioneers of the skate punk era during the early 1980s, their longest stint being from Halloween 1982 until Halloween 1985, The Faction were one of the first bands whose music and lifestyle tastes centered on punk rock and skateboarding. An early demo tape had these words inscribed on the label, "Music By Skaters For Skaters." All original band members and their subsequent replacements are accomplished skateboarders, most notably bass and guitar player and legendary professional skateboarder Steve Caballero. In the early years of the band Caballero was instrumental in attracting a large following of skateboarders to the band. Lead singer Gavin O'Brien was also a notable skateboarder, popular at local Winchester Skatepark. Drummer Craig Bosch has a skateboard trick named after him, "the Bosch" aka invert to blunt. Pro skateboarder Jeff Kendall would also play with The Faction during 1989.
Early History
Podcasts:
The Faction
ALBUMS
- The Faction Collection 1982-1985 released: 1996
The Faction Collection 1982-1985
Released 1996- Tongue Like a Battering Ram
- Friends and Enemies
- The Kids Are the Future
- Dark Room
- Being Watched
- Corpse in Disguise
- Let's Go Get Cokes
- Why Save the Whales
- Yesterday Is Gone
- 0 Years War
- I Decide for Me
- Fast Food Diet
- California Dreamin'
- Lost in Space
- Room 101
- Skate & Destroy
- Deathless
- Boredom Awaits
- Your Generation
- Not Mine
- Bullets Are Faster Than Words
- Since I Was a Kid
- Pegged for Life
- Skate Harrassment (live at the Tool and Die)
- Spineless Majority (live at KFJC)
- Beyond the Mirror
- Demons (live at CBGB's)
- Tenebrae
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by Demonoid
The Evocation
by: Demonoid"Hear our prayers Gods of Wrath,
Strike with swords of fire
Blood of man we've sacrificed
Genocide invoked"
[Riders:]
"You have given us power to rule
The power to take you away
Hatred our food the spilled blood our wine
You made sure that you fed us well
You've awaken us finally fools
And offered us eternal reign
Night and day we will turn into red
And as we are here we will stay"
"Hear our prayers Gods of Wrath,
Strike with swords of fire
Blood of man we've sacrificed
Genocide invoked"
[Goddess of Fate:]
"So you've chosen and so it may be
It finally comes to an end
Man has chosen his own destiny