Hard-Ons

rdf:langString Hard-Ons

rdf:langString Hard-Ons

rdf:langString Hard-Ons

rdf:langString Dead Rats, Plebs, The Three Sinners

rdf:langString Feed the Horse, Peter Black, WOG, Nunchukka Superfly, Front End Loader, Regurgitator, Nazxul, Neil Hamburger, Henry Rollins, The Stalkers, You Am I

rdf:langString group_or_band

rdf:langString Peter Black and Murray Ruse at the Rolling Stone Awards

rdf:langString Murray Ruse

rdf:langString Peter "Blackie" Black

rdf:langString Ray Ahn

rdf:langString ViNil, Chatterbox, Bad Taste, Waterfront, Alternative Tentacles

rdf:langString Sydney, Australia

rdf:langString Keish de Silva

rdf:langString Peter Kostic

rdf:langString –, –present

rdf:langString The Hard-Ons are an Australian punk rock band, which formed in 1982 in Punchbowl, New South Wales. Its founding members were Keish de Silva on lead vocals and drums, Peter "Blackie" Black on guitar and backing vocals, and Ray Ahn on bass guitar. The band issued eight studio albums prior to their disbandment in 1994, and achieved 17 consecutive number-one hits on the Australian alternative charts during their first 12 years as a band. During that time, they became Australia's most commercially successful independent band, with over 250,000 total record sales.. The band reformed in 1997 to release further material, and have remained together ever since. In 2002, de Silva announced his departure from the band. He was replaced on drums by Front End Loader's Peter Kostic, while Black took over on lead vocals. Kostic was later replaced in turn by Conation drummer Murray Ruse in 2011. de Silva returned as a guest vocalist in 2014, and permanently rejoined the band in 2016. This version of the band would stay together for a further five years and one studio album, prior to de Silva's second departure in 2021. You Am I frontman Tim Rogers has since taken over as the band's lead vocalist. Australian music historian Ian McFarlane has described the band's music as "fused punk tempos, hardcore attitude, heavy metal riffs and surf-pop melodies into a seamless ball of energy". Although the band has largely had little commercial success, the Hard-Ons have had two singles, two EPs, two studio albums and one greatest hits compilation peak within the ARIA top 100.

rdf:langString Dead Rats, Plebs, The Three Sinners