Musician Dictionary

Bad Religion

American punk rock band

Description	American punk rock band Source: Wikidata
Formed	1980 Source: MusicBrainz, Wikidata
Formed in	Los Angeles San Fernando Valley Source: MusicBrainz, Wikidata
Area	United States Source: MusicBrainz
Country	US United States Source: MusicBrainz, Wikidata
Genres	punk rock melodic hardcore Source: Wikidata
Record labels	Atlantic Records Epitaph Records Source: Wikidata

Members

Jay Ziskrout 1980–1980 (drums (drum set)) · Discogs, MusicBrainz
Jay Bentley 1980–1982 (bass guitar); 1986–present (bass guitar) · Discogs, MusicBrainz
Brett Gurewitz 1980–1984 (guitar); 1986–1994 (guitar); 2001–present (guitar) · Discogs, MusicBrainz
Greg Graffin 1980–present (lead vocals) · Discogs, MusicBrainz
Pete Finestone 1981–1982 (drums (drum set)); 1984–1991 (drums (drum set)) · Discogs, MusicBrainz
Paul Dedona 1982–1984 (bass guitar) · Discogs, MusicBrainz
Davy Goldman 1982–1984 (drums (drum set)) · Discogs, MusicBrainz
Tim Gallegos 1984–1985 (bass guitar) · Discogs, MusicBrainz
Greg Hetson 1984–2013 (guitar) · Discogs, MusicBrainz
John Albert 1985–1986 (drums (drum set)) · MusicBrainz
Lucky Lehrer 1986–1986 (drums (drum set)) · MusicBrainz
Bobby Schayer 1992–2001 (drums (drum set)) · Discogs, MusicBrainz
Brian Baker 1994–present (guitar) · Discogs, MusicBrainz
Brooks Wackerman 2001–2015 (drums (drum set)) · Discogs, MusicBrainz
Jamie Miller · Discogs
Keith Lehrer · Discogs
Mike Dimkich · Discogs

Discography

Studio albums (17)

How Could Hell Be Any Worse? 1982
Into the Unknown 1983
Suffer 1988
No Control 1989
Against the Grain 1990
Generator 1992
Recipe for Hate 1993
Stranger Than Fiction 1994
The Gray Race 1996
No Substance 1998
The New America 2000
The Process of Belief 2002
The Empire Strikes First 2004
New Maps of Hell 2007
The Dissent of Man 2010
True North 2013
Age of Unreason 2019

Live albums (4)

Along the Way 1991
Tested 1997
Live at the Palladium 2006
30 Years Live 2010

Compilations (4)

80–85 1991
All Ages 1995
Punk Rock Songs: The Epic Years 2002
Bad Religion 2010

EPs (5)

No Substance Roughmixes
Bad Religion 1981
Back to the Known 1984
New World Order: War #1 1991
Christmas Songs 2013

Singles (24)

Atomic Garden 1991
American Jesus 1993
21st Century (Digital Boy) 1994
Stranger Than Fiction 1994
Infected 1994
A Walk 1996
Streets of America 1996
Punk Rock Song 1996
Dream of Unity 1997
Raise Your Voice 1998
New America 2000
Sorrow 2001
Broken 2002
Los Angeles Is Burning 2004
Cyanide 2011
F**k You 2012
Father Christmas 2013
The Kids Are Alt-Right 2018
The Profane Rights of Man 2018
My Sanity 2018
Faith Alone 2020 2020
Lose Your Head (demo version) 2020
What Are We Standing For 2020
Emancipation of the Mind 2021

Source: MusicBrainz release groups.

Also known as

Bud Religion バッド・レリジョン壞宗教樂隊 배드 릴리전

Identifiers

mbid: 149e6720-4e4a-41a4-afca-6d29083fc091 · wikidata: Q201669 · isni: 0000000122711290 · discogs: 17479 · apple_music: 150160 · spotify: 2yJwXpWAQOOl5XFzbCxLs9

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