Haggerty went on to play with 3 and Severin. Ferrando went on to form the band Gray Matter with Haggerty, and Ferrando also played in the band Ignition. Iron Cross was introduced to the world beyond the eastern United States with their three songs on the Dischord compilation "Flex Your Head".Īfter lineup changes that left Grey as the only original member of Iron Cross, the band broke up in 1985. He was replaced by Paul Cleary, who was a founding member of the DC bands Trenchmouth and Black Market Baby. The song, "You're a Rebel" was covered by the Boston band Dropkick Murphys.īlow left the band and was replaced by John Dunn, who left the band just before the release of the "Hated and Proud" EP. That EP features the signature song "Crucified," which was later covered by Agnostic Front, The Business, Subculture Squad and 25 ta Life. The band's original lineup lasted until just after the recording of their first EP "Skinhead Glory". The only non-skinhead in the band was Ferrando, who has usually maintained a spiky hairstyle.
This lineup lasted a short time, and the band went through two more bassists before settling on Wendell Blow, the former bassist for the DC hardcore punk band State of Alert. The first lineup consisted of Grey on lead vocals, Haggerty on guitar, Ferrando on drums and John Falls on bass guitar. When Grey and Ferrando decided to start a new band, Grey suggested the name Iron Cross. Ferrando was previously in the band Broken Cross with Mark Haggerty while in school. Iron Cross formed in Washington, DC when Dante Ferrando met Sab Grey. Grey stated in the original Iron Cross press kit in 1982, ".oh, and we're not Nazis!" Fact|date=February 2007 The band's name - and the skinhead image of most of its members - led to accusations of fascism, which Grey has always denied. Singer Sab Grey was one of the many roommates in the Dischord House in Arlington, VA. The band had close ties to the Washington, DC hardcore punk subculture, due to its relationship with other hardcore bands, with Ian Mackaye, and with Dischord Records. They play a rough form of streetpunk, and is the first band in the United States to adopt the skinhead look and the Oi! musical style. Iron Cross is a hardcore/ Oi! band from Baltimore, Maryland and Washington D.C.
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