In 1986 when many of their hardcore peers started crossing over into metal the Cro-Mags dropped an uncompromising NYHC classic with their debut album The Age of Quarrel.  John Joseph, Harley Flanagan and Parris Mayhew were already veterans of the scene by the time of it’s release but their legacy was solidified as soon as the pummeling intro to We Gotta Know kicks in.  The original line-up would never record together again but these fifteen tracks were enough to make the Cro-Mags hardcore legends.  It was intense and mind blowing at the time but does it still hold up today?   Recommended Listening:     Crumbsuckers Life of Agony (’86) https://open.spotify.com/album/6gw1FknEZI3i8f4O6l6iHD    New York City Hardcore: The Way It Is https://www.discogs.com/Various-New-York-City-Hardcore-The-Way-It-Is/release/3220268   Video Fear on SNL featuring John Joseph) - Halloween 1981 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Frud5RFtTi0   Cro-Mags We Gotta Know  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0BLcCM8nPYQ   The New York Hardcore Chronicles  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KBqZ3yBnakQ&t=148s   Movie The Godfathers of Hardcore  https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1674591332/the-godfathers-of-hardcore   Books John Joseph The Evolution of a Cro-Magnon https://www.amazon.com/Evolution-Cro-Magnon-John-Joseph/dp/0980065704/ref=sr_1_3?ie=UTF8&qid=1490032865&sr=8-3&keywords=john+joseph   NYHC by Tony Rettman https://www.amazon.com/NYHC-York-Hardcore-1980-1990/dp/1935950126