Editing Bad Religion (section)

===Formation and early recordings (1980–1983)===
[[File:Badreligion1980.jpg|thumb|upright=1.25|Bad Religion in 1980]]
Bad Religion was formed in [[Los Angeles]], California, in 1980<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.thebrpage.net/media/item.asp?itemID=43|title=Greg Graffin interviewed by Kelly E. and Cathy D – Media -–The Bad Religion Page – Since 1995|website=Thebrpage.net|access-date=May 27, 2018}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.thebrpage.net/media/item.asp?itemID=60|title=Bad Religion Is Spreading – Media – The Bad Religion Page – Since 1995|website=Thebrpage.net|access-date=May 27, 2018}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.thebrpage.net/media/item.asp?itemID=112|title=Addicted to the Opiate of the Masses – Media – The Bad Religion Page – Since 1995|website=Thebrpage.net|access-date=May 27, 2018}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.badreligion.com/legacy/|title=Bad Religion – 30 Years.|website=Badreligion.com|access-date=May 27, 2018}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7hcnjiZtclQ|title=Bad Religion's Greg Graffin – Wikipedia: Fact or Fiction?|last=Loudwire|date=August 16, 2017|access-date=May 27, 2018|publisher=[[YouTube]]}}</ref> by high school students [[Greg Graffin]], [[Jay Bentley]], [[Jay Ziskrout]], and [[Brett Gurewitz]]. Their first public performance was playing six<ref name="30 questions"/> or eight<ref name="anarchy 21" /> songs at a [[Fullerton, California]],<ref name="30 questions">{{cite web|url=http://www.yuppiepunk.org/2010/03/bad-religion-30-years.html |title=Bad Religion: 30 Questions for 30 Years |publisher=YuppiePunk |date=March 22, 2010 |access-date=March 14, 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131209171449/http://www.yuppiepunk.org/2010/03/bad-religion-30-years.html |archive-date=December 9, 2013}}</ref> or [[Santa Ana, California]],<ref name="anarchy 21">{{cite book |last1=Graffin |first1=Greg |last2=Olson |first2=Steve |date=2010 |title=Anarchy Evolution: Faith, Science, and Bad Religion in a World Without God |location=New York |publisher=HarperCollins Publishers |pages=21–23 |isbn=978-0-06-182850-8}}</ref> warehouse [[opening act|opening]] for [[Social Distortion]]. Their first official show was on November 11, 1980, at Joey Kills Bar in [[Burbank, California]].<ref name="It All Happened">{{cite web|title=The Forms at Joey Kills Bar|url=http://www.itallhappened.com/the-forms-at-joey-kills-bar-1980-11-11|work=It All Happened – A Living History of Live Music|access-date=April 12, 2013|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151016230629/http://www.itallhappened.com/the-forms-at-joey-kills-bar-1980-11-11|archive-date=October 16, 2015|url-status=dead}}</ref> Graffin has said that the name "Bad Religion" came about when the then-[[adolescent]] members of the band wanted to "piss people off".<ref>{{Cite book |last=Dolgins |first=Adam |title=Rock Names: How Rock Bands Got Their Names |publisher=[[Carol Publishing Group]] |year=1998 |isbn=0-8065-2046-9 |edition=3rd |pages=16 |language=English}}</ref>

In 1981, the band released their initial [[eponymous]] six-song EP as a 7" record on the newly formed label, [[Epitaph Records]], which was and continues to be managed and owned by Gurewitz. Also in 1981, the band began recording their first full-length album, ''[[How Could Hell Be Any Worse?]]'' During the recording of this album, [[drummer]] Jay Ziskrout quit the band, and was replaced by Pete Finestone. Released in 1982, ''How Could Hell Be Any Worse?'' was also distributed by the band under the Epitaph label, and sold roughly 12,000 copies.<ref name="opiateofthemasses">{{cite news|url=http://www.thebrpage.net/media/item.asp?itemID=112|title=Addicted to the Opiate of the Masses|author=Greene, Jo-Anne.|date=May 23, 1997|work=Goldmine: The Collectors Record and Compact Disc Marketplace}}</ref>