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Death From Above 1979

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Outrage! Is Now
(2017)

The Physical World
(2014)

You're a Woman, I'm a Mac
(2004)

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2 Male

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Toronto, Canada

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Punk Rock

Style
Rock/Pop

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Born

2003

Active
2003 to Present...

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Death From Above 1979 - Romantic Rights
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Death From Above 1979 - Blood on Our Hands
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Death From Above 1979 - Black History Month
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Death From Above 1979 - Little Girl
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Death From Above 1979 - Turn It Out

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Trainwreck 1979

Romantic Rights

Freeze Me

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Death from Above 1979 are the Toronto-based duo of Jesse F. Keeler on bass/synths and Sebastien Grainger on vocals/drums. Refusing to employ a lead guitarist, they played loud synth infused dance punk on the drum and bass combination alone. Originally named just “Death From Above”, the duo changed their name after a legal dispute with New York City dance-punk label Death From Above (known as DFA Records since the September 11, 2001 attacks). “Death from above” was written on a helicopter in the movie Apocalypse Now, which was copyrighted in 1979. However, Grainger says this is simply a coincidence; 1979 was chosen as it was, amongst other reasons, “the year I was born.”