Modern Warfare was an early-1980s punk rock

Punk rock

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 band from Long Beach, California

Long Beach, California

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. It featured Jim Bemis (guitar and lead vocals), Tim Gaines (bass), Steve Sinclair (bass), Ron Goudie (lead guitar), Randy Scott (drums), and Tish Lucca (Keyboards).

Bemis wrote most of the songs, and also lent his name to the band's label, Bemisbrain Records (sometimes written as two words, "Bemis Brain"). Bemisbrain (the name was reportedly a play on the Bemis Manufacturing Company

Bemis Manufacturing Company

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, maker of toilet seats, though this was never confirmed by the band) issued records by several other punk and deathrock

Deathrock

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 bands, including Tex & the Horseheads

Tex & the Horseheads

Tex & the Horseheads is an American punk rock band, which emerged in the Los Angeles punk subculture of the early-1980s. Their original run was from 1980 to 1986, and during this time they enjoyed a sizeable cult following...

, Nip Drivers

Nip Drivers

The Nip Drivers were an American punk rock band formed in 1982 in Torrance, California. The band was the brainchild of lead singer Mike Webber, and for a time included guitarist Kurt Schellenbach, Janus Jones on bass, and Nick Passiglia on drums, though the lineup at any given time was fluid...

, Mnemonic Devices, and Super Heroines

Super Heroines

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, as well as the two Hell Comes to Your House

Hell Comes To Your House

Hell Comes to Your House is an American Deathrock and punk compilation that chronicles the emergence of Deathrock as a genre.The album was originally released in 1981 but reissued in 1998...

compilation albums.

Discography

• Modern Warfare (7" EP, 1980, Bemisbrain Records)
• Modern Warfare #2 (7" EP, 1981, Bemisbrain Records)

Compilation appearances

• Hell Comes to Your House
  Hell Comes To Your House
  Hell Comes to Your House is an American Deathrock and punk compilation that chronicles the emergence of Deathrock as a genre.The album was originally released in 1981 but reissued in 1998...
  
  (1981)
  • Includes "Out of My Head" and "Street Fightin' Man"

• American Youth Report
  American Youth Report
  American Youth Report is an American punk compilation originally released in 1982 and reissued on CD in 1991.-Track listing:# "One for All" - Modern Warfare# "Only Gonna Die" - Bad Religion# "Catholic Boy" - Channel 3# "Losing Battle" - Adolescents...
  
  (1982)
  • Includes "One for All"

• Life Is Boring So Why Not Steal This Record (1983)
  • Includes "Moral Majority"