Liberty City Hardcore

Type	RADIO STATION
Liberty City Hardcore
Location	Liberty City
Core genre	Hardcore punk Death/Black Metal Crossover thrash
Appears in	Grand Theft Auto IV and Grand Theft Auto: Episodes From Liberty City
Host	Jimmy Gestapo (formerly) Max Cavalera (currently)

“

Hardcore lives on in the city where it all began. Jimmy Gestapo hosts a selection of the best punk and hardcore classics.

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— GTA IV Website

“

Steeped in a tradition of punk and metal, Liberty City Hardcore now features a new radio show hosted by DJ Max Cavalera of the legendary bands Sepultura, Soulfly and Cavalera Conspiracy.

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— The Lost and Damned Website

Liberty City Hardcore, also known as Liberty City Hardcore Classics or as an abbreviation, is a radio station that appears in Grand Theft Auto IV and is hosted by hardcore punk musician Jimmy Gestapo. In The Lost and Damned and Grand Theft Auto: Episodes from Liberty City, It is hosted by Max Cavalera and plays Hardcore Punk/Death Metal. LCHC plays music from the NYHC (New York Hardcore) music scene.

GTA IV rendition:

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LCHC advertisement

DJ: Jimmy Gestapo, the vocalist of Murphy's Law and the only founding member still in the band. Mostly punk rock songs made in the 1980s, the setlist pays homage to New York City's rock scene at CBGB, an iconic bar where most of the bands featured have performed at one point or another.

• Murphy's Law - "A Day in the Life" (1986)
• Maximum Penalty - "All Your Boyz" (2006)
• Underdog - "Back to Back" (1989)
• Leeway - "Enforcer" (1988)
• Sick of It All - "Injustice System" (1989)
• Cro-Mags - "It's the Limit" (1985)
• Sheer Terror - "Just Can't Hate Enough" (1989)
• Bad Brains - "Right Brigade" (1982)
• Killing Time - "Tell Tale" (1989)
• Agnostic Front - "Victim in Pain" (1984)

The Lost and Damned and Episodes from Liberty City rendition:

DJ: Max Cavalera, the Brazilian-born frontman of metal bands Sepultura (his first and most famous band, formed in 1984, left the band in 1997), Soulfly and Cavalera Conspiracy. His segment is referred to as the "Blood Fire War Hate Death Metal Show".

• At the Gates - "Slaughter of the Soul" (1995)
• Drive By Audio - "Jailbait" (2009)
• Celtic Frost - "Inner Sanctum" (1987)
• Entombed - "Drowned" (1990)
• Sepultura - "Dead Embryonic Cells" (1991)
• Soulfly - "Blood Fire War Hate" (2008) (Only the introduction was played for the station's feature ident.)
• Deicide - "Dead by Dawn" (1990)
• Cannibal Corpse - "I Cum Blood" (1992)
• Bathory - "Call from the Grave" (1987)
• Kreator - "Awakening of the Gods" (1986)
• Terrorizer - "Fear of Napalm" (1989)

Trivia

• It is possible, that L.C.H.C. is the favorite radio station of the McReary Crime Family in Liberty City. The song "Day In The Life" by Murphy's Law could be heard in trailer of Patrick McReary and Bucky Sligo's pals listen to this station in his crib.
• L.C.H.C. plays both at the Lost MC Clubhouse and Brian Jeremy's Safehouse.
• L.C.H.C. is possibly the favorite station of The Lost MC in Liberty City, because it plays at their clubhouse.
• The song "Jailbait" by Drive By Audio can only be heard in the downloadable version of TLAD as for whatever reason it isn't featured in the standalone Episodes from Liberty City version.
• It is very well liked by Henrique Bardas.
• Jim Fitzgerald, Johnny Klebitz, Clay Simons, and Terry Thorpe from The Lost Brotherhood all like this radio station.
• L.C.H.C. is the favorite radio station of the Angels of Death, because it plays at their clubhouse and it's default station on all the Angels of Death Gang member's bikes.
• It's also one of the two favorite radio stations of the Albanian Mob, alongside K109 The Studio.

Videos

GTA IV

Grand Theft Auto IV soundtrack:

File:GTA IV Soundtrack- L.C.H.C

GTA TLAD/TBOGT

Episodes from Liberty City soundtrack:

Radios GTA EFLC - Liberty City Hardcore (Download Link)

See Also

• V-Rock, a radio station in Grand Theft Auto: Vice City and Vice City Stories that also plays Metal.
• Anvil, a radio station in Grand Theft Auto: Chinatown Wars that also plays Metal.
• Channel X, a radio station in Grand Theft Auto V that also plays hardcore punk.

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