Vintage Mental "Pam Grier" Lockin' Out T-Shirt Punk Their self-titled debut album

Their self-titled debut album

This original early 80s Olatunji shirt

But everyone know what it means

created the template for what NYHC should be: short

with a driving rhythm section and metallic and moving guitar riffs

Vintage Mental "Pam Grier" Lockin' Out T-Shirt Punk Their self-titled debut albumMental were a hardcore band from Boston, MA founded in 2001. They released three 7"s and an LP, all through their own Lockin Out Records save for one EP. The band brought with them an appreciation of obscure NYHC, rap, and sneakers to create an entirely new aesthetic, one that would become the predominant style for the first part of the new millennia. In their wake, everyone was skanking low and reading Trumbull. Their final record, the LP Planet