* " Chimaera ", a song by Bad Religion off their 1992 Generator

* 1977 – Brooks Wackerman, American musician ( Bad Religion )

He currently plays in Bad Religion.

* 1962 – Brett Gurewitz, American guitarist, songwriter, and producer ( Bad Religion, Daredevils, and Error )

* 1964 – Greg Graffin, American singer ( Bad Religion )

According to music journalist Ben Myers, Bad Religion " layered their pissed off, politicized sound with the smoothest of harmonies "; Descendents " wrote almost surfy, Beach Boys – inspired songs about girls and food and being young ( ish )".

Epitaph Records, founded by Brett Gurewitz of Bad Religion, was the base for many future pop punk bands, including NOFX, with their third wave ska – influenced skate punk rhythms.

In 1993, California's Green Day and Bad Religion were both signed to major labels.

Other California punk bands on the independent label Epitaph, run by Bad Religion guitarist Brett Gurewitz, also began achieving mainstream popularity.

My So-Called Punk: Green Day, Fall Out Boy, the Distillers, Bad Religion — How Neo-Punk Stage-Dived into the Mainstream ( New York: St. Martin's ).

* 1962 – Jay Ziskrout, American drummer and producer ( Bad Religion )

* " Slaves ", a song by Bad Religion on the album 80 – 85

* November 6 – Greg Graffin, American rock musician ( Bad Religion )

* Bad Religion

* June 29 – Greg Hetson, American rock guitarist ( Bad Religion, Circle Jerks )

By the time the film was released, new hardcore bands had formed in Los Angeles and neighboring Orange County, including The Adolescents, Agent Orange, Angry Samoans, Bad Religion, Descendents, Dr. Know, Ill Repute, Minutemen, New Regime, Social Distortion, Suicidal Tendencies, T. S. O. L., Wasted Youth, and Youth Brigade.

" SST was followed by a number of other successful artist-run labels — including BYO Records ( started by Shawn and Mark Stern of Youth Brigade ), Epitaph Records ( started by Brett Gurewitz of Bad Religion ), New Alliance Records ( started by the Minutemen's D. Boon ) — as well as fan-run labels like Frontier Records and Slash Records.

Bad Religion made a progressive rock album with Into the Unknown, the Beastie Boys gained fame by playing hip hop, and Bad Brains incorporated more reggae into their music, such as in their 1989 album Quickness.

During the 2004 United States presidential election, artists and bands including Brian Baker, Jello Biafra, Mike Watt, Bad Religion, Rise Against, Circle Jerks, Ensign, Sick of It All, The Unseen, Western Addiction, and Youth Brigade involved themselves with the anti-Bush political activist group Punkvoter.

* Bad Religion mentions the winds a few times, using their nickname " murder winds ", " St. Anne's skirts are billowing " and the line " The fans of Santa Ana are withering " in the song " Los Angeles Is Burning " from the 2004 album The Empire Strikes First.

Mystic also released vinyl compilations featuring Suicidal Tendencies, New Regime, Black Flag, Government Issue, The Minutemen, Habeas Corpus, The Instigators, and Bad Religion.

The band Bad Religion has a song titled " The Markovian Process " on their album Stranger Than Fiction.

* California-based punk rock band Bad Religion include a song entitled " Flat Earth Society " on their 1990 album Against the Grain, as well as their compilation album All Ages and their live release 30 Years Live, written by Brett Gurewitz.

As the rave scene scratched the surface of the mainstream music industry in 1991 and 1992, Moving Shadow, like its friendly rival Suburban Base & D-Zone, enjoyed UK Top 75 singles chart success though Blame's Music Takes You and 2 Bad Mice's Bombscare.

" Extreme Noise Terror: Punk Rock and the Aesthetics of Badness ", in Bad Music: The Music We Love to Hate, ed.

Hardcore Punk / Reggae band Bad Brains ' first album contains the song ' I Luv I Jah '.

Despite never garnering the amount of attention that Stranger Than Fiction received, it would score Bad Religion a minor U. S. radio hit with the song " A Walk " as well as the European release of " Punk Rock Song " ( sung in both English and German ).

Three years later, bands like Green Day, The Offspring, Rancid, Bad Religion and NOFX hit the mainstream ( with their respective then-new albums Dookie, Smash, Let's Go, Stranger than Fiction and Punk in Drublic ) and brought the California punk scene exposure worldwide.

Punk bands that performed at The Elite Club include Bad Religion, Black Flag, Bad Brains, The Dead Kennedys, The Red Rockers, T. S. O. L., Flipper, Gang of Four, and Public Image Ltd.

* Bad Religion – Punk Rock Song

** With the release of Green Day's Dookie, The Offspring's Smash, Bad Religion's Stranger Than Fiction, NOFX's Punk in Drublic, and Rancid's Let's Go, punk rock goes mainstream, and 1994 becomes one of the biggest years for punk rock artists in terms of album sales.

Punk band Bad Religion wrote a song called " Kyoto Now!

Punk Rock Songs ( The Epic Years ) is a compilation album by Bad Religion, released in 2002.

* Ep 384 ( 2002-03-31 ) 25 Years of Punk 4-featuring: X ( American band ) & Black Flag ( band ) & Circle Jerks & Suicidal Tendencies & Dead Kennedys & Hüsker Dü & The Replacements ( band ) & Soul Asylum & Bad Brains & Minor Threat & Misfits ( band ) & Mission of Burma & The Lemonheads & Gang Green

* Ep 524 ( 2006-05-14 ) 30 Years of Punk, Part 4 ( 1978 – 1986 )-featuring: The Clash & Ramones & The Specials & Sex Pistols & Agnostic Front & Bad Brains & Minor Threat & Black Flag & Bad Religion & Dead Kennedys

* " The Dodo ", a song by Bad Religion from the 2002 album Punk Rock Songs

Aubin Paul of Punk News viewed the release as a growth from Too Bad You're Beautiful, writing that " like their previous, one contains its share of PSAT words, and overtly maudlin pseudo-poetry, but it's still a big improvement ".

* Punk ' til Ya Poop ( 1997, Bad Stain Records )

* Bad Religion – “ We're Only Gonna Die " ( Punk )

* Punk Album of the Year: Bad Religion, The Empire Strikes First

Bad Religion has released fifteen studio albums to date and is considered one of the most successful independent punk acts, selling over 5 million albums worldwide, and charting two singles on the Mainstream Rock charts and seven singles in the Top 40 of the Alternative Songs charts.

So far, they have a total of seven top 10 hits on the Hot Mainstream Rock Tracks chart, including two No. 1 hits, " Bad Girlfriend " and " Lowlife ".

One of Nickelback's more controversial songs, " Figured You Out " reached 65 on the Billboard Hot 100, but topped the Mainstream Rock Tracks chart for 13 consecutive weeks and was also voted one of the " 40 Most Awesomely Bad Dirty Songs ... Ever " on VH1.