Renegade

The name Renegade is used by several different acts, including hardcore, jungle/drum and bass, thrash metal, heavy metal, punk, rock and electronic projects from Australia, the UK, Sweden, Singapore, Bulgaria, Lithuania and the United States.

Hardcore and punk

One Renegade is a hardcore band from Western Sydney, Australia, formed in early 2009. Another is a hardcore punk band from Singapore. A separate 1980s oi!/punk band from northwest London appears on the compilations Oi! The Resurrection and The Sound of Oi!.

Jungle and drum and bass

The best-known Renegade is the UK jungle and drum and bass act made up of Ray Keith and Gavin Cheung. It has used the name since the early 1990s and is associated with the 1994 Moving Shadow release of the track “Terrorist”, which becomes one of the best-known drum and bass tracks of the period and influences other artists in the genre.

Metal

Renegade also refers to an early NWOBHM band from Kent, England, who release the single “Lonely Road” in 1980. There is also a thrash metal band from Melbourne, Australia, and a heavy metal band whose album features tracks including “Decapitation”, “Riot Squad Gladiator” and “Black Ritual”. The metal release is described as raw, aggressive and strongly rooted in speed and thrash metal rather than technical complexity.

Other uses of the name

In Sweden, Renegade is used by a hair metal/AOR band from Jönköping, formed in 1988 and involving Magnus Tallaker, Mats Ottoson, Thomas Kullman, Fredrik Gahn, Per Billengren and Hakan Jardmo. That band releases Time to Choose at the end of 1992, follows it with Ravages of Time about a year later, and begins work on a third album, Renegade III, in 1995. Another Swedish Renegade is the electronic/techno duo Patrik Kindvall and Conny Granlund, based in Stockholm and unsigned. There is also a Bulgarian rock group from Plovdiv whose songs are in Bulgarian and whose live shows include sound, lights and pyrotechnics, as well as a Lithuanian garage rock band from Ukmergė and a 1970s glam rock band.

United States

Another Renegade is a hard rock band from Estherville, Iowa, active from 1981 to 1983. It records a 7-inch single in 1981 with “Rescue Me” and “Don’t Stop, Let’s Rock”; the latter later appears on the proto-punk compilation Bonehead Crunchers Vol. 1. Bassist David Ellefson is briefly in the band before he moves to Los Angeles and forms Megadeth with Dave Mustaine, though he does not record with Renegade.