Statement

Militant Vegan Straight Edge Solo-Project from Patrick "Rat" Poole

And the face of the Hardline movement for a while...

at least the cover art from the Prepare For Battle 7"

And thats also where I'd like to begin - although that there were the "early" Statement as well,

the first Demo recordings are from '85, but these have nothing to do

with the Statement that I'm featuring here...

Until Prepare For Battle it was pure Anarcho-Punk.

Already Militant Vegan Straight Edge with cool lyrics and stuff, 

but musically not really my cup of tea!

However, if youre interested in that stuff, look somewhere else, or write me! ;-)

(Demo '85, Muted Existence Split, Demo '86, Fairies Can't Fly, Not For Punks, 

The Apostles Split LP, The Apostles Split EP)

So, in '90, when Muttaqi and Vegan Reich put Hardline on the map,

Rat decided to go more in the Thrash Metal, Crossover direction and they released

the legendary Prepare For Battle 7" on Hardline Records.

Two years later, he recorded the Vegan Inquisition EP, which should also

be released on Hardline, but never was... Muttaqi went to Jamaica

and Rat turned his back on Hardline.

(What most people don't know, he never "really" was a hardliner...

militant Vegan Straight Edge - yes, but religious and homophobic - no.)

Anyway, with this record he went more and more into the direction

of Slayer influenced Thrash metal.

After that, two years later the Split 7" with Dim-Mak was released,

also a good record, but I, personally, dont like the way how he tries to sing

on that one - fortunately he realized it as well

and so the next release, Genocidal Justice, sounded way better, again!

This time its pure Slayer Thrash Metal - probably comparable to the later Unborn stuff!

There is also some "newer" material, like the song from the Tears Of Gaia & Extinguish Split

and Visions Of No More...

if you have it, or know a way to download it (Tales Of Mysanthropy for example) 

from myspace, please let me know! I'll add it, as soon as I got it!

Rat was involved in bands like:

The Apostles, Cracked Cop Skulls, Muted Existence, Riot/Clone, 

Arrogance, Anorexia, Unborn, Talisman, ...

Statement - Prepare For Battle (1990)

Statement - Vegan Inquisition (1992)

Statement & Dim-Mak - Split EP (1994)

Statement - Traces Of Blood (Song from the Stones To Mark A Fire Comp - 1995)

Statement - Genocidal Justice (1996)

Statement & Tears Of Gaia & Extinguish - Split EP (2004)

Statement - Visions Of No More (One Song - 2007)

edit:

Found some more Statement Songs that were hiding on unknown Compilations

(dont worry, I'm doing a Compilations You Should Know About post soon!)

Statement - Fight Of The Halberd (Animal Truth Comp - 1998)

One of the previously unreleased tracks from the Dim-Mak Split Recording Session.

The other one from these Recordings is on the ToG/Extinguish Split.

Statement - Meat Means Murder (Barricades And Broken Dreams Comp - 2001)

Kinda different Song... with Tom O'Brien (Unborn, Eakra, etc.) on bass!