In an interview with the music zine WelshLeak, from inside prison in 1987, Skullhead's founder kevin turner says that he started the band as an reaction to the murder of a close friend, peter mathewson in 1984. The band was originally called Skullhead U.K. but soon dropped the "U.K." Having started out in Consett, UK, as an Oi! band singing patriotic lyrics, the band joined in 1985 the "White Noise Club" of the national front and quickly became a prominent "Rock-Against-Communism" (rac) band, adopting elements from heavy metal and other types of rock music.

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