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Rancid is a punk rock band which formed in Berkeley, California, United States in 1991. The band consists of Tim Armstrong (vocals, guitar), Lars Frederiksen (guitar), Matt Freeman (bass) and Branden Steineckert (drums). The band has released nine albums: Rancid (1993), Let's Go (1994), ...And Out Come the Wolves (1995), Life Won't Wait (1998), Rancid (2000), Indestructible (2003), Let the Dominoes Fall (2009), ...Honor Is All We Know (2014), and Trouble Maker (2017). The band originally consisted of Armstrong, Freeman (both former members of Operation Ivy) and drummer Brett Reed, with Frederiksen joining in 1993. Reed left in 2006 and...

Rancid Vat are a veteran punk/metal band from Oregon by way of Philadelphia, then Texas, with a strong cult following. .

Rancid Hell Spawn is a punk rock band, active between 1988 and 1995, and again from 2011. Discovered in London the band released five albums and three extended plays. Rancid Hell Spawn also provided two songs for the soundtrack of Dennis Worden's "Stickboy" music video in 1993. Their music was characterized by a distinctive noisy and distorted sound, featuring a Casio organ and large amounts of feedback. The majority of Rancid Hell Spawn songs are short, high-speed punk burnouts with melodies hidden beneath the feedback. Steven Wells of New Musical Express described it as "listening to Eddie Cochran while wearing...