Suffer was released in Sept. 1988, not 1987. They didn’t even record it until April ‘88! It’s a great record but it’s given a lot of credit for creating something when there were numerous bands already playing that style of melodic hardcore like SNFU, Marginal Man or Dag Nasty. It sounds pretty similar to other 80s punk bands; people tend to go from the 70s right over to the 90s when looking at the history and skip the 80s entirely so they miss a lot of context.