Which anarcho-punk band released The Feeding of the 5000 in 1978? Crass released it.
The album was Crass’s first studio album, recorded at Southern Studios in London on 29 October 1978. It established the group as a defining force in British anarcho-punk, combining abrasive music with explicitly anti-war, anti-authoritarian and anti-religious lyrics.
Its release also became part of the band’s history. A pressing plant objected to the track “Asylum,” so the original record substituted two minutes of silence titled “The Sound of Free Speech.” Crass later issued the song separately and restored it on a subsequent edition.
The title refers to the biblical feeding of 5,000 people. It is sometimes confused with Stations of the Crass, the band’s 1979 follow-up, but The Feeding of the 5000 came first and helped define Crass’s do-it-yourself approach to punk.