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Aaron Montaigne: undetermined | Mac Mann: undetermined | Ron Anarchy: undetermined | Jeff Winterberg: undetermined | Andy Ward: undetermined

Genre: Metal | Hardcore, Punk, Rock

Sound description: Hardcore punk, for punky hardcores, sprayed in your face in one minute bursts, sort of like someone emptying cans of Mace in your eyes.

RIYL: Black Flag, Fear, Tarot Bolero, Get Hustle, Final Conflict , Burlesque Affair, Baron Montaigne & the Chandeliers

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Inception: San Diego, 1994

Ex-Band Members: Aaron Ricards, undetermined

Current Status: Though broken up for years, their songs are beginning to surface again on punk compilations.

Influences: Evergreen, Black Flag, Fear, Rollins, Dead Kennedys

Background:

Antioch Arrow was on the seminal hardcore/emo label Gravity Records, responsible for putting San Diego on the map in the mid-'90s as one of the centers of the movement. Antioch Arrow used the fast and chaotic framework of hardcore to create songs that were at times melodic and at times indiscernible, but almost always curious and played at breakneck speed. Their calling card was surely their vocalist Aaron Montaigne. Whether dramatic and theatrical or whispered or shrieked, his obtuse and stream-of-consciousness vocal delivery and lyrics forced an audience to react.

In 2005, 31G Records re-released the 1995 album Gems of Masochism. Antioch Arrow's original members were Aaron Montaigne, Mac Mann, Ron Avila (aka Ron Anarchy), Jeff Winterberg, and Aaron Ricards. Ricards was later replaced by Andy Ward (also of the band Evergreen). Members went on to form or join Tarot Bolero, Get Hustle, Final Conflict , Burlesque Affair, Baron Montaigne & the Chandeliers , among others.

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