- For other uses of the intialism SSD, see SSD.
SSD (or Society-System-Decontrol) was a Boston hardcore band from 1981-83, and later a heavy metal band.
Formed by songwriter/guitarist Allan Barile (then a machinist at the General Electric plant in Lynn, Massachusetts), SSD started performing at smaller venues throughout the greater Boston metropolitan area in the summer of 1981.
The band quickly gained notoriety within the local music scene, not only for intense perfomances charged with menacing atmosphere, but also for the provocative antics of its core group of followers, the Boston Crew, whose archetypecal appearance and esoteric mannerisms perfectly augmented the stark integrity of SSD's broadbase appeal. As the band started to record its material, this appeal did much to broaden the ranks of a now burgeoning national underground music community.
SSD's famous "the choice" photo: [1] (http://http://www.geocities.com/eyesburned/ssd_thechoice.jpg)
The message SSD sent was plain and simple, yet sophisticatedly vital; straightforward honesty toward oneself and others, and an unrelenting brutal iconoclasm toward anything which tries to suppress it, be it drugs and alcohol, unjust authority, or mindless persecution by an ambivilant set of mainstream peers.
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![[1]](http://http://www.geocities.com/eyesburned/ssd_thechoice.jpg){kind=link}