“They sounded like screams of anguish, screams of war, screams of where humanity is headed – they were perfect”: The feral story of Discharge’s Hear Nothing See Nothing Say Nothing, the punk album that changed metal

Discharge posing for a photograph in 1981.

Emerging at the start of the 80s, a new wave of bands took the sound and fury of the original punk movement and turned it into something filthier, nastier and more extreme. Leading the charge were Stoke-on-Trent’s Discharge, a band who would influence countless metal and hardcore bands that followed. In 2020, we looked back at one of the most influential bands of the 80s.