[2] Th’ Inbred emerged in the alternative music club The Underground Railroad and its all-ages annex The Dry House.
The band's sound was described by Alternative Tentacles' Jello Biafra as "Bach meets Black Flag"[5] and by Raw Power's drummer as "the Rush of Hardcore".
One such flier, from 1986 is on the cover of ‘Visual Vitriol, The Street Art and Subcultures of The Punk and Hardcore Generation’ by David A. Ensminger (2011, University Press of Mississippi, Jackson).
[8] Their political message was conveyed in outrageous stage antics; a fan went to Inbred shows to be entertained as well as educated, never knowing what would happen next.
That sense of theater was illustrated by such diverse examples as the "Destroy All Monsters Gig" (with Adrenalin O.D., when they showed the Castle condensed version of the above-named film accompanied by "The Rites of Spring", by Stravinsky, which segued into their opening song) to the lead singer's spot-on parodies of well-known hardcore figures, such as Henry Rollins (of Black Flag).