This lineup lasted a very short time, with Falls leaving after Iron Cross's early show at American University.
[6] He was replaced by Paul Cleary, who was a founding member of the D.C. bands Trenchmouth and Black Market Baby.
The 1982 Dischord Records compilation Flex Your Head introduced three Iron Cross songs to an audience beyond the eastern United States.
In 2001, Iron Cross re-released their EPs and previously-unreleased material in the form of the full-length CD Live For Now.
The mini-album Two Piece and a Biscuit, featuring four songs from Iron Cross and three from The Royal Americans, was released in 2007 on 13th State Records.
[11] In the mid 1980s, New York hardcore band Agnostic Front began covering "Crucified", a song from the Iron Cross EP Skinhead Glory.
Agnostic Front included studio versions of the song on their Liberty and Justice For... and Something's Gotta Give albums.
Grey's lyrics refer to being ridiculed for being different, being blamed for society's ills, being accused of violence, and to intolerance because of the actions of others.
White Power sympathizers and fascists who called themselves skinheads also identified with the song due to backlash they received for their reactionary and racist ideology.