Filth were a seminal hardcore band who were mainstays of the Berkeley/Gilman Street scene during the late 80's and early 90's. Coupling fiery, screamed old-school style vocals with more laid back, sensible, and downright pop-punkish compositions, they quickly made a name for themselves within the East Bay punk community and eventually became one of its most well known bands. The group's short, but extremely influential, career saw them perform with such well known acts as Operation Ivy, Green Day, The Offspring, Tribe 8 and Link 80, among others.

Though they failed to record a full length before their somewhat premature 1991 breakup, the band did manage to record enough compilation and EP material (13 in all) to put out a split LP with yet another local group of beer-swilling, miscreant screamers: the psychedelia-tinged, lyrically twisted, coed hardcore outfit known as Blatz, with whom Filth had played most of their shows. The album, which came to be dubbed "The Shit Split", was initially released by Lookout Records in 1992, though in the mid-90s former members of the two bands decided to transfer the record's publishing rights to another label. Copies of the Shit Split, along with Filth's most popular EP "Live the Chaos", can now be bought via the Life is Abuse record company. Former members of Filth currently play/have played in the following bands: - Isocracy - The Vagrants - Pot Valiant - The Wynona Riders - Creeps on Candy - Dead and Gone - Fields of Shit - Dogma Mundista - Strychnine