Andrew's younger brother Alan joined the band as the main vocalist, allowing Stretton to concentrate fully on playing guitar.
Stretton drove across the continent to radio stations in Sydney, Melbourne, and Brisbane to try to get airplay, but did not succeed, and he returned, dejected.
[3] Around 2000, after a resurgence of interest driven by the Internet, Black Chrome became a cult band, and venues wanted to book them to play.
[9] Stretton announced in November 2024 that the band's latest project was taking "appalling songs in history and fixing them by playing them in punk".
Apart from Black Chrome, he recorded many early punk bands, including JAB, The Chosen Few, Bohdan X, The Accountants, The U-Bombs, The Dagoes, Psychosurgeons, the Lipstick Killers, Riff-Raff, and Young Modern.
Later the label recorded Perdition, CULL the Band, Fear and Loathing, Ben Gel's Shitshow, Teenage Crime, and others.
[13] "Fighting in the Streets" was featured in a 2022 episode of the Radio National program The Music Show in which Andrew Ford interviewed filmmaker Jennifer Ross, maker of the documentary feature Age of Rage: The Australian Punk Revolution, the title taken from Black Chrome's 2018 album Age of Rage.
[14] In July 2020, Triple J Unearthed featured the band's single "The Storm", calling them a "pioneering Australian punk band", and likening their music to The Ramones, Sex Pistols, The Stooges, Green Day, Midnight Oil, and the Sex Pistols.
[3][4][21] Drummer Andrew Griffiths formed and played in a number of Adelaide rock bands, such as Squawk, Matriark, and Sidewinder.