Since forming in 1992, ATLAS SHRUGGED has and always will be about friendship and the collective emotional release of their music.
While the majority of the band was raised in the ever growing NY Hardcore scene of the late 80's, when forming ATLAS SHRUGGED they chose to take that anger and rage found in their beloved NY scene and add melody and deep routed emotion to it. There were no songs about gang violence, being stabbed in the back or political policies. Instead topics of alienation, lost love and the emotional trainwreck that was their lives was set forth in the songs they crafted.
The band had many ups and downs in their 6 year run. Never quite catching on to any specific sub-genre in the hardcore scene did not slow the band down as they shared the stage with everyone from NYHC stalwarts like Madball, Warzone and Killing Time to metalcore legends All Out War and Hatebreed to post-hardcore acts such as Orange 9mm and Shift. Never quite tough enough for the hardcore kids and perhaps too hard and heavy for the post-hardcore crowd of the time.
As all things must come to end, ATLAS SHRUGGED bid the world farewell in 1998 with members moving to different areas of the United States to explore new paths in their lives.
The new millenium saw reunions in 2002 and 2007, that brought a whole new generation of kids that missed ATLAS SHRUGGED the first time around... finally kids who got what ATLAS SHRUGGED was about.
In the summer of 2008 the band will be completing recordings for their upcoming discography CD and playing 2 shows to conclude the final chapter of ATLAS SHRUGGED.
DISCOGRAPHY
Demo [1992] self released cassette
The Last Season LP [1994]( Trip Machine Laboratories )
Split w/ New Day Rising 7" [1996] (Moo Cow Records)
We Don't Stand a Chance 7" [1997] ( Trip Machine Laboratories )
Old Familiar Face 7" [1998] (Moo Cow Records/Fist Held High Records)
Vigilante Songs CD demo [1998/2007] ( Trip Machine Laboratories )
Compilation - Point/Counterpoint Tape -Inside Front Fanzine [1995]
Compilation - Call For Unity 2 -Back Ta Basics [1997]
Compilation - Down For The Core 5 - Back Ta Basics [2007]
