(True Sounds of Liberty) is an American punk rock band formed in 1978 in Long Beach, California.

According to legend, the band acquired their instruments by casing a local music shop, waiting until closing, and then performing a smash-and-grab robbery.

's debut five-song EP, T.S.O.L., was released in spring 1981 by Posh Boy Records, featuring the reconvened original lineup.

This first release was harshly political, featuring tracks such as "Superficial Love", "World War III" and "Abolish Government".

They then signed to independent label Alternative Tentacles, releasing the Weathered Statues EP early in 1982, and the melodic Beneath the Shadows album later that year; the latter featured a new member, keyboardist Greg Kuehn.

's replacement drummer, Mitch Dean, referred to Cathedral of Tears as a "synthesizer band" whose music he did not particularly like, adding, "not to make fun of it or anything," but that "[Grisham's] doing what he wants.

T-shirts were seen in the video for that band's "Sweet Child o' Mine", most notably on drummer Steven Adler.

were joined briefly by guitarist Scotty Phillips, who quit before the band started recording the follow-up to Hit and Run.

Roche was fired shortly before the album's release and signed over rights to the name and trademark to Wood and Dean leaving the band with no original members.

[11] The remaining members recruited drummer Jay O'Brien (formerly of All Day, later of American Jihad) and released the "Anticop" single (2001) and the albums Disappear (2001) and Divided We Stand (2003), all on Nitro Records, the latter of which featured Kuehn back on keyboards as well as Billy Blaze replacing O'Brien.

In 1981, director Paul Young made Urban Struggle: The Battle of The Cuckoo's Nest, a film which featured live performances by T.S.O.L.

[16] Their music was also featured in the popular 1985 horror movie The Return of the Living Dead and 1986 film Dangerously Close.