![]() User comments or postings do not reflect the viewpoint of BLABBERMOUTH.NET and BLABBERMOUTH.NET does not endorse, or guarantee the accuracy of, any user comment. Once you're logged in, you will be able to comment. To comment on a BLABBERMOUTH.NET story or review, you must be logged in to an active personal account on Facebook. The comments reside on Facebook servers and are not stored on BLABBERMOUTH.NET. Left to right in photo above: Pete Koller, Howie Abrams, Lou KollerīLABBERMOUTH.NET uses the Facebook Comments plugin to let people comment on content on the site using their Facebook account. To do so, there was certainly a lot of blood and sweat, but to this day, never any tears. The brothers have made the hardcore family larger and more united like no other. ![]() Regardless, Lou and Pete Koller have achieved unparalleled success (in hardcore terms),and have taken the volatile sub-culture with them to locales previously assumed unfathomable. In 1992, they were faced with the aftermath of a mass shooting in Massachusetts, carried out by a shooter wearing their tour shirt, and the misguided blame game which followed as their band name was plastered across mainstream media outlets worldwide. They've won some battles, and have lost many. Decisions each has made throughout their journey has had an effect on the other for better or worse. Lou and Pete have encountered all of it side by side. One of working-class blood brothers reared on aggressive music catching the wave of early New York City hardcore and riding it with an unparalleled anger and fury across the globe for nearly three and a half decades - together and separately enduring all of the turbulence which comes along with carrying the flag for disenfranchised youth anywhere and everywhere they were welcome. It is, however, a tremendous account of struggle and perseverance by any means necessary. This is not a tale of the streets and broken homes similar to that of, say, AGNOSTIC FRONT or CRO-MAGS. With so many unique experiences under their belts, Lou and Pete, born and raised in Queens, New York, felt the time was right to tell their collective, as well as individual, stories. In its thirty-third year as a band, SICK OF IT ALL recently released its twelfth album, "Wake The Sleeping Dragon!", to critical acclaim and fan adoration alike. ![]() Publishing is scheduled for fall 2019 by Post Hill Press. From Bad Brains", "The Merciless Book of Metal Lists." ) will be compiling the book along with the Kollers. Former A&R man and author Howie Abrams ( "Finding Joseph I: An Oral History Of H.R. Work has commenced on a forthcoming autobiography from SICK OF IT ALL vocalist Lou Koller and guitarist Pete Koller, to be called "The Blood And The Sweat: The Story Of Sick Of It All's Koller Brothers".
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