Necros was formed in mid-1979 by then-teenagers Barry Henssler (vocals), Andy Wendler (guitar), and Todd Swalla (drums). After going through a handful of bassists (including Donny Brook, Jeff Allsop, David Cooke, Brian Hyland, Jeff Lake, and Brian Pollack), Corey Rusk joined the band. Barry Henssler had struck up a friendship with
Tesco Vee and Dave Stimson of
Touch and Go magazine after sending them a copy of his own 'zine,
Smegma Journal. Andy Wendler left the band in 1981 (although he continued to write for them) and Brian Pollack joined on guitar. Later that year, the band recorded and released another self-titled 7-inch record known as "IQ32", produced by
Minor Threat vocalist
Ian MacKaye. This nine-song effort was jointly released by Touch and Go (which Rusk now had a hand in running) and MacKaye's own
Dischord Records. Wendler rejoined on guitar in late 1982 and, in 1983, the band recorded and released two more records, a 7-inch and LP both titled
Conquest For Death. In 1983, Corey Rusk quit the group to concentrate on Touch and Go, after assuming full control of the label and bassist Ron Sakowski stepped in. Despite the group's steady output at their onset, the band did not release another record for two years. In an interview with
One Solution zine, vocalist Barry Henssler blamed the delay between releases on Rusk's refusal to give the band a definite answer as to whether or not they were still on Touch and Go. The label has since deleted their Necros releases from their catalogue. The next Necros release came in 1985 as a split LP with
White Flag entitled
Jail Jello, on Gasatanka Records. Now featuring a more distinctly
post-hardcore sound, the band followed up the split with 1986's
Tangled Up LP on
Restless Records, along with a single of the same name on Gasatanka. After spending 1987 touring, first with
Megadeth and then later the
Circle Jerks, the group called it quits. A live album,
Live or Else, appeared posthumously in 1989. ==Post break up==