Agnostic Front helped define the whole hardcore genre in the early 1980s with its album “Victim in Pain” and songs such as “Society Sucker” and “Growing Concern,” which begins: “Toppling, smashing/The statues go crashing/And all of your ancient ideals.”
Never resting on laurels, the band incorporated thrash-metal sounds into later albums, then switched up again for a sparer style before disbanding in 1992. Reunions started happening just a few years later. The sustaining members are founding guitarist Vinnie Stigma and Roger Miret, who’s been the band’s vocalist since 1982.
Agnostic Front plays the Webster Theater, 31 Webster St., Hartford, at 7 p.m. on Saturday, Sept. 5, one night before another celebrated survivor of the New York hardcore scene, Murphy’s Law, plays the same club. $20. Information: 860-246-8001 and webstertheater.com
