He went on to earn a master's degree in geology from UCLA and received his PhD from Cornell University. Graffin attended El Camino Real High School, then double-majored in anthropology and geology as an undergraduate at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA). It was co-written and produced by Brett Gurewitz of Bad Religion and features members of Social Distortion as backing musicians. His latest record, "Millport" was released on March 10, 2017. In a September 2015 interview, Graffin revealed that he has been working on his third solo album, which will continue the folk style of his previous album Cold as the Clay. It was produced by Brett Gurewitz and released on ANTI- Records on July 10, 2006. The album is an amalgamation of new songs by Graffin and 18th- and 19th-century American folk songs. In 2005, Graffin recorded his second solo album Cold as the Clay. Most of this album was written during the breakup of his marriage, and the songs reflect this in lyrics and style. Graffin recorded a solo album in 1997, called American Lesion, which consisted of softer, more pop-oriented folk songs. They have since continued to co-write songs and recorded five records: The Process of Belief (2001), The Empire Strikes First (2004), New Maps of Hell (2007), The Dissent of Man (2010) and the latest, True North (2013). Gurewitz had left the band in 1994 to concentrate on the future of Epitaph.Īfter a stint with major label Atlantic Records ended in the early 2000s, Bad Religion re-signed with Epitaph and Gurewitz rejoined. Graffin and Gurewitz are the band's two main songwriters, though Graffin wrote the bulk of the material on his own for a three-album period in the late 1990s. The reunion line-up made two more records before Finestone left the band in 1991.īad Religion has been known for its articulate and often politically charged lyrics as well as its fast-paced harmony, melody and counterpoint. In 1988, they released Suffer, which was a comeback for Bad Religion as well as a watershed for the Southern California punk sound popularized by guitarist Gurewitz's Epitaph Records.
However, Bad Religion reformed in 1986 with a new line-up, consisting of Graffin on vocals, Brett Gurewitz and Greg Hetson on guitars, Jay Bentley on bass, and Pete Finestone on drums. After making a name for themselves in the Los Angeles punk scene, releasing two EPs and two full-length albums, they disbanded around 1985. In either 1979 or 1980, at the age of 15, Greg Graffin and a few high school classmates formed Bad Religion in Southern California's San Fernando Valley.
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