Artist Info: Caustic Defiance

Caustic Defiance was formed in the creatively stifling cornfields of Central Illinois in 1983 from the remnants of Negative Element. The Stepe brothers (Barry and Chopper), still in their teens, were already seasoned veterans of the Chicago Hardcore scene (Negative Element) when they were displaced to this blue-collar wasteland by a family move. They wasted no time however starting a new band and found willing recruits in would-be teenage runaway Doug Chasteen – a prototypical punk kid from a broken (try shattered) home [read more...]