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The Damaged City Fest in DC was chock full of straight hardcore bands, by which I mean regular bands not straightedge ones, thought there was at least one of those. Frankly most of them were indistinguisable to me. Priests, on the other hand, wear their progressive politics on their sleeves and that may have made them unique among the bands I saw that day.
That doesn't mean they weren't any mellow than the other bands. Quite to the contrary, their singer and guitarist both get pretty crazy on stage. I'm not sure it's the kind of crazy which inspires moshing but they definitely put on a show.