page_title: Nomeansno
section_title: One, All Roads Lead to Ausfahrt (2000–2006)
hierarchical_section_title: Nomeansno / History / One, All Roads Lead to Ausfahrt (2000–2006)
caption_attribution_description: Galego: NoMeansNo en concerto na sala La Iguana de Vigo NoMeansNo
context_page_description: Nomeansno was a Canadian punk rock band formed in Victoria, British Columbia and later relocated to Vancouver. They issued 11 albums, including a collaborative album with Jello Biafra, as well as numerous EPs and singles. Critic Martin Popoff described their music as "the mightiest merger between the hateful aggression of punk and the discipline of heavy metal." Nomeansno's distinct hardcore punk sound, complex instrumentation, and dark, "savagely intelligent" lyrics inspired subsequent musicians. They are often considered foundational in the punk jazz and post-hardcore movements, and have been cited as a formative influence on the math rock and emo genres.
  Formed in 1979 by brothers Rob and John Wright, the group began as a two-piece punk band influenced by jazz and progressive rock. They self-released their debut Mama LP in 1982. Adding guitarist Andy Kerr the following year, the group signed with the Alternative Tentacles imprint and continued to expand their audience. Kerr departed in 1992 after five LPs with the band, and the group returned to its two-piece formation for the Why Do They Call Me Mr. Happy? album.
context_section_description: The band issued its final Alternative Tentacles album, One, in 2000.  Featuring a slow stoner rock cover of The Ramones's "Beat on the Brat" and a fifteen-minute version of Miles Davis's "Bitches Brew" with electric piano and congas, the album was well received.  AllMusic's Schulte assessed the album as "intense and heavy collegiate punk" as praised it as the band's finest effort since Wrong.  Three outtakes from the album were also issued as the Generic Shame EP on Wrong.
  The band left Alternative Tentacles in 2002, and began slowly reissuing their back catalogue through Wrong and distributors Southern Records.  With new drummer Ernie Hawkins, The Hanson Brothers released their third album, My Game, later that year.  Nomeansno continued touring extensively, but ultimately took six years to release their next album.  In the meantime, they issued the best-of compilation The People's Choice.
  Their tenth studio album, All Roads Lead to Ausfahrt,  was released on August 22, 2006 by AntAcidAudio in the United States and Southern in Europe. AllMusic critic Jo-Ann Greene praised the album's exhausting diversity as befitting of the band's legacy and career-spanning accomplishments.  Greene wrote that with the record Nomeansno travel "yet again through the undergrowth and underbelly of the rock realm, and with all the piss and vinegar that they started out with a quarter century ago."
caption: The band was a three-piece featuring (from left to right) Tom Holliston, John Wright, and Rob Wright in its final two decades.
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