The album pushed the band to the forefront of New York's fledgling hardcore scene, which was centered around CBGB, where they played with bands like The Cro-Mags and Murphy's Law.
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The band began playing hardcore punk similar to their contemporaries, and were thrust to the forefront of the burgeoning New York hardcore scene in the mid-1980s with their widely regarded 1984 classic Victim in Pain before incorporating thrash metal elements into their music.
The opening track on their 2000 EP "Another Story" produced by Agnostic Front frontman Roger Miret was played on K-ROCK's "The Buzz" with Matt Pinfield.
At the Rock Against Racism shows in the early 1980s, Reagan Youth shared the bill with Dead Kennedys, U.S. Chaos, Agnostic Front, Bad Brains, Beastie Boys, and others.
The band's catalog features a number of punk personalities producing, including Agnostic Front's Roger Miret and the Dwarves' Blag Dahlia.
The album features 10 tracks on CD and 11 on vinyl, including covers of songs by Agnostic Front, CIV, and My Bloody Valentine (vinyl version only).
Western Front | Eastern Front (World War II) | Western Front (World War I) | National Front | Eastern Front | The Front Page | Animal Liberation Front | Rwandan Patriotic Front | Revolutionary United Front | All Quiet on the Western Front | National Front (France) | Southwestern Front | Sandinista National Liberation Front | Western Front (World War II) | Polisario Front | Earth Liberation Front | Agnostic Front | Front Line Assembly | Ethiopian People's Revolutionary Democratic Front | 1st Belorussian Front | United National Front | Steppe Front | Popular Front | Moro Islamic Liberation Front | Eritrean People's Liberation Front | Border Security: Australia's Front Line | All Quiet on the Western Front (1930 film) | United States home front during World War II | United National Front (Sri Lanka) | Transcaucasian Front |
They have played with some of the most notable Punk, Oi!, and Hardcore bands including Blitz, Agnostic Front, Swingin' Utters, Randumbs, Blood For Blood, Rancid, Angelic Upstarts, Anti-Heroes, The Adicts, and One Way System, have toured the U.S Extensively.
Over the years Sense Of Purpose have supported a host of touring bands including: Agnostic Front (US), H20 (US), AFI(US), Cro-Mags (US), Terror (US), Ensign (US), No Fun at All (Sweden), Strife (US), Champion (US), Citizen Fish (UK), Agent Orange (US), Balance (NZ), Shank (Scotland), DSM (NZ), Shutdown (US), Good Clean Fun (US), Strike Anywhere (US), Dayglo Abortions (Can) and Vitamin X (Neth).
D'Antonio's writing influences include old New York Hardcore bands like Cro-Mags, Leeway, Madball and Agnostic Front, and he cites Cliff Burton of thrash metal band Metallica and Harley Flanagan of the Cro-Mags as personal influences.
This album was recorded at Mana Recording Studio in Tampa, Florida by Erik Rutan and produced by Freddy Cricien of Madball, who is the half-brother of Agnostic Front frontman Roger Miret.