Hammer Damage was an American punk rock band from Akron, Ohio, that performed from 1978 until 1984.
The Hammer Damage Band started out in 1978 and quickly built a strong following in the Akron-Kent music scene.
Some of the band's highlights included opening for the B-52's and Public Image Ltd. at the Cleveland Agora, and several shows in New York with the Dead Boys.
Hammer Damage contributed a song, "Noise Pollution" to the Bowling Balls From Hell II LP on Clone Records.
[3] Hammer Damage were one of the three bands profiled in the 2005 PBS documentary, If You're Not Dead, Play, along with Chi-Pig and Unit 5.