U.S. Chaos are an
American punk rock band from Paterson,
New Jersey, formed in 1981 from remnants of first wave punk outfits The Front Line in 1978 and The Radicals in 1979. They were one of the first American bands to play in an
Oi!/
street punk style. The band was originally based in
Passaic and
Bergen counties. The band's approach was to play music with lyrics that had an
ironic, as well as
satirical, overzealous pro-American stance. They often played recordings of military marches,
air raid sirens and
polyphonic sound assaults before going on stage.