There are at least six bands called
Orchid:1. A hardcore band from Amherst, Massachusetts2. A doom metal band from San Francisco, California3. An indie-pop band Poznan, Poland4. A rock band from Halifax, Nova Scotia5. an alias of Alexander Tooth6. a "post-prog" band from Chapel Hill, North Carolina.1. Active from 1998 to 2002,
Orchid was first and foremost a hardcore band.
Orchid combined a post-modern aesthetic with hardcore punk, releasing several now hard to find splits (with bands including The Red Scare, Jeromes Dream, Combatwoundedveteran, Encyclopedia of American Traitors and the grindcore band Pig Destroyer), a 10” record (Dance Tonight! Revolution Tomorrow! on Ebullition Records) and an LP (Chaos Is...
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