EA80

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EA80 is a German punk band founded in Mönchengladbach in West Germany in 1979. EA80’s music includes sophisticated lyrics that are written in German and rarely rhyme. As a matter of principle, the band produces no merchandise or promotional material. Since the beginning of the 1990s, they have given few interviews. When they have granted interviews it has been on the condition that no recording of the interview be made and that their answers will not be directly quoted. On the band's official website, there only appears the name of the band, and no further information. They prefer to advertise their rare concerts only with local flyers and by word of mouth, and have usually been able to sell-out concerts that way. EA80 have been continuously active since their founding and have released 13 studio albums. Their albums are self-released because they object to contracts with record labels. However their albums have been re-released and distributed by the German indie label Major Label, which has also released albums from the Boxhamsters, Razzia, and the East German punk band L'Attentat. Their albums are highly regarded, and have been reviewed in Maximum Rocknroll, Die Tageszeitung, and Ox Fanzine. Their album Zweihundertzwei (also written 202), released in 1990, was listed in Musik Express' 2023 "50 best punk albums of all time". EA80 was featured in the 2016 book Beyond no future: cultures of German punk. They were also mentioned in the 2022 book Culture from the Slums: Punk Rock in East and West Germany.