downset. by downset.

[tecumseh1175]

I love these guys, its been awhile since I last heard them. This shit reminds me of my senior year in high school.

[steelers4045]

straight from the LV concrete! Been rockin this shit for 14yrs!!

[MrMalybialymis]

what are you going to do when the shit comes down on you?:)

[GodFatherBeats]

If you like Downset, check out.... 408 Habitat "Harvest" video. New band from the South Bay for 2011!

[Michaelmop]

WTF MTV??? Pff... that's really sad tbh.

[Guerillaradio13]

@Michaelmop what cuz MTV USED to play music but now jst reality tv shows for plastic rich kids :(

[TVismyopiate]

@Guerillaradio13 MTV has NEVER been about the music, fools! Q: How do you NEED visuals to make music good? A: If your music is so shit it can't stand on its own. A lot of bands NEED MTV and similar shit. Real bands don't, they tour and graft, MTV is useful, but fuck MTV, it causes more problems than it solves, trust me. (or let's hear your argument).

[NikkyW00t]

love this song.

[Pipotron3000]

And "Anger" ;)

[wordmanwilson]

I remember going to see Downset play at St. Andrews Hall in Detroit. So pumped up for the show, and then right during the 1st song, the whole band stops and starts yelling at me and my friends for SLAM DANCING too hard. Shoot, if I wanted to ska dance I would have went and seen Murphey's Law. Totally ruined the show for me. DETROIT CITY ROCKS

[TVismyopiate]

@wordmanwilson They never did that to me and my mates who used to MOSH pretty hard...

[C2CONTINUE]

DOWNST, 311 AND THE MIGHTY MIGHTY BOSSTONES @ THE PALACE IN HOLLYWOOD WAS A KICK ASS SHOW!

[UncivilizedMan]

thanks for that one, krasprock1 ... just reminds me the golden years... ha ha

[Guerillaradio13]

anyone got any bands similar to this from that day and age to recommend to me? cheers :)

[theserpentboy]

UNBROKEN T-Shirt

[xxSABOGxx]

is ray still spun?

[gceron]

RATM is original on their genre, but DOWNSET is a real street band !!! freakin cool... I love both !!!

[anothersunsetfalls]

when will theý come back?

[tenbeerspiers]

rage but heavier.love it.saw them in london at the garage club years ago

[The30thofjuly]

Fucking BRILLIANT!!@!!!!!!!!!Fuck Guano Apes and Lords of the stolen boards

[moparmonster1965]

This is so much better than that shitty RATM.

[ruler1978]

fuck yeah downset:)

[sslloocc]

grande gruppo crossover di oltre oceano....

[wanderer1031]

this band among a couple of others actually nailed the rap./rock thing. the list of failureswould be way too long for youtube. bang this shit loud!!!!!

[leetothea]

whats that bit of music that kicks in at the end for like 2 seconds called?

any help much appreciated.

[mattcribbin]

it's chimaira, i believe from their pass out of existence record. I think it's either the song "dead inside" or "Rizzo."

[aliefgangsta]

Still relevant

[debgibsonfan]

Where is the "Anger" official video???!!!...can't find it anywhere.

[tedfrantic]

ha ha..remember this from when i was young..good track, saw em live in UK around 96.. not that it really matters, but i remember wondering how much their lyrics reflected their reality? just like the stuff about 'true blue motherfucker, about 4 generations deep' and sets, signs n nines,, n his pop getting killed by LAPD.. just out of interest, any ideas?

[stryni]

Rey Oropeza's father was shot down in a shootout with the LAPD

They grew up in South Central LA

Anger at least has many references to the Los Angeles Riots in '92 which was rooted in South Central (intersection of florence and normandie)

Remember Rodney King

[tedfrantic]

thanks for the reply,,you've cleared up somethin i used to wonder when i was a kid before the internet could answer all my questions! Yeah i got the references to Florence and Normandie, and the Rodney King beating/not gulity verdict. it was that kind of stuff that made me wonder whether it was just for image (like a few bands/rappers i could mention..)

cheers

[moonrunrs]

Yeah, I knew Social Ray in the early 90s when he worked for a local LA artist and I was SxE and into his other band. We used to ride the same bus line to work/school and I went to Downset's first show ever. Downset had a VERY legit gang following in LA and were tight with members of CBS (Can't be Stopped) among others. Ray hated Rage against the machine and Zack DeLa Rocha because they were fake and only talked about knowing about gang culture. Ray was very legit and hung with bangers.

[moonrunrs]

btw - Ray was known as Social Ray or Ray Justice in those days.

[lucaHC]

tha band was social justice , and there was also at least another member from downset in

[djsanchez2]

Relates very closely to the lead singers life. Ray's father was killed by the Los Angeles Police Dept. In the song ANGER he talks more about it. In Rape ritual he speaks about his sister being raped as well, most of the songs do carry a deep personal meaning to them. That is the main reason they never went mainstream, they refused to modify their music for anyone.

He is my older cousin not that it really matters to your question LOL

[xmacheteeex]

the singer sang in his old days in a hc band called Social Justice cool band! try to check it on youtube!

[PuraLokera]

DOOOOOOOOOWNN!

[punkgenius]

Great memories of Hollywood in my youth on this one.. Chris, Ray and everyone else in this band were great guys.

Thanks for posting this.

[foreverlastsamoment]

Unbroken shirt?

[weinraub123]

SSD shirt as well

[AirThief]

seen and met these guys at a small as club in 94 or 95, cant remember. they were touring with orange 9mm and deftones. awesome show, the singer handed me the mic during "anger" was fucking awesome.

[BabyFacedAssassin301]

i saw that same tour in DC!!!!

[cheerless3]

Saw these guys back in '94,intense show. Bands dont sound like this anymore.

[grumpybastage]

Rey is the fucking man.

[wayneb77]

this is the most awesome riff, saw them back a few years ago suporting pantera ( and they wiped the floor with them ) crowd was fuckin nuts.

[kiralyficko]

yea that is real groovy and powerful...grat

[jolley76]

these dudes are fuckin' bad-ass! Listenin' to this takes me back to when i was 18. TOO DAMN YOUNG AND TOO DAMN TOUGH! BAD-ASS!

[Dan82SDMF]

sooo fuckin glad others understand! This shit rules, reminds me of being 15 and thinking i was hard as fuck! nothing like the 1st just like RATM

[moparmonster1965]

Man, this shit makes RATM look like the little boys in dresses that they were.

[Dan82SDMF]

fair Comment - i totally agree RATM were way behind these guys - But rage's first album was still genius in that day and age

[moparmonster1965]

RATM were only okay; I was into them for a while, but the preachy stuff got on my nerves after a while. I bought Evil Empire the day it debuted, however.

[KGuy135]

man, whatever happened to these guys? their new shit sound nothing like the first two records.

[SalaminizerVanski]

I gotta agree, the first two disc are fuckin incredible!

[staticAcid]

Thanks for posting! This is a classic for me...

[moparmonster1965]

This was much better that RATM.

[wurstman05]

great

awesome stuff

[vertiis]

...FREEDOM IN A CAGE

[kisg1]

The best song of Downset...however i'm a huge Social Justice fan!

[krasprock1]

thats right!! SJ!! SFHC!! I got some video I need to make digital to put up here,.. Can you say .. "Don't Push Me Too Far!"

[kisg1]

Ah, you have SJ videos??? God, i wanna see that...long time ago i asked Rey Oropeza for that but he didn't answered about that. Although he promised me a SJ interview, but 'till now nothing happened. So you were playing drum in SJ from the beginning or at the last Ep'?

[krasprock1]

I have a few shows on vhs. I played in SJ from '91 till the downset transformation in late '92

[OSOPLANET]

Great '90 hardcore sound!!!

[jondx6]

i want downset back to europe!!

[wurstman05]

DOWWNsetttt! yeah! ! !

[DerLibanese]

uhh yeah.... That is some badass groovin' old school shit!!!

[cosmosios]

huhaaaaaaaaaaaaaa thats a true favorite of mine from back in the days, dude very special THX for postin this, i saw them live in the Netherlands in the club Dornrösje in Nijmegen, dude we were able to smoke weet at the concert, becaus they had a coffeshop right in this Motherfucker, just a great evening!!!

[wildwingf23]

This was on the "Do we speak a dead language" album. >_>

[krasprock1]

No, It was on our Self Titled debut album,... "downset" released in 1994 and recorded in 1993, the video was shot in 1994.

[SalaminizerVanski]

fucking kick ass! Great video!