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Luicidal (album)
''Luicidal'' is the debut album by the American punk rock band Luicidal, released on October 14, 2014. Overview ''Luicidal'' features multiple musicians including three of the four members of the ''Join the Army'' era Suicidal Tendencies lineup (Louiche Mayorga, R.J. Herrera and Rocky George) as well as Grant Estes and Amery Smith, who played guitar and drums respectively on Suicidal Tendencies' 1983 self-titled debut album. Mike Muir is the only original member of Suicidal Tendencies who does not perform on the album. ''Luicidal'' also features guest vocals by H.R. (Bad Brains), Dale Henderson (Beowülf) and Keven Guercio ( No Mercy). Reception ''Luicidal'' has received mostly positive reviews. Rich Dodgin from All About The Rock said, "This is an album of old school punk rock, Venice Beach style, and an album that I'm going to have on repeat play for a long time to come." Track listing Personnel Luicidal * Mando Ochoa – vocals * Marty Ramirez – guitar * Louiche Mayorga ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Luicidal
Luicidal is a punk rock band from Venice, Los Angeles, California, formed in 2012. The band consists of Mando Ochoa (vocals), Mike Avilez (vocals), Louichi Mayorga (bass/guitar), R.J. Herrera (drums), Gene Duarte (guitar), and Doug Mug Swanson (bass). Band history Bassist Louiche Mayorga decided to form Luicidal with his former Suicidal Tendencies bandmate R.J. Herrera after he missed "being on the stage as an artist". In order to put the band together, they were joined by Mando Ochoa (Sick Sense) on vocals and Ricky Reynaga (Rated X, Rolling Papers and Sancho's Revenge) on guitar. Luicidal performs songs from Suicidal Tendencies' first three studio albums, ''Suicidal Tendencies'', ''Join the Army'' and ''How Will I Laugh Tomorrow When I Can't Even Smile Today''; the first two featured Mayorga on bass, while the last two featured Herrera on drums. Luicidal released their debut album ''Luicidal'' on October 14, 2014, on DC-Jam Records. Mayorga has described the musical direct ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
DC-Jam Records
DC-Jam Records is a Midwest American record label founded in 2006 by Darron Hemann that focuses primarily on punk rock, ska, and experimental musicDarron Hemann/ref> The label features well-known classic punk rock artists such as T.S.O.L., JFA, Fishbone, Meat Puppets, Richie Ramone, The Adicts, Down By Law, Trusty, and Government Issue, and several others including The Soviet Machines, Porcupine, Onward, etc., Luicidal, Dirty Filthy Mugs, The Generators, Kirkwood Dellinger Downtown Brown, and Fast Piece of Furniture (featuring Jeff Nelson of Dischord Records and Minor Threat). Discography * 16 Hi-Fi Hits Compilation LP * Meat Puppets “Live in Manchester England” LP Picture Disc * The Soviet Machines LP * #Goals CD * Porcupine “What You’ve Heard Isn’t Real” EP & CD * Porcupine “Carrier Wave” LP & CD * The Adicts ''All The Young Droogs'' CD & LP * Fishbone ''Crazy Glue'' LP & CD * Fishbone ''Live'' PIC DISC LP x2 * Government Issue ''The Punk Remains ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Join The Army
''Join the Army'' is the second studio album by American crossover thrash band Suicidal Tendencies. It was released in April 1987, and is one of the most well known albums for crossing over the genres of punk and thrash metal, known as crossover thrash, a genre that Suicidal Tendencies have been credited for creating. ''Join the Army'' is arguably one of Suicidal Tendencies' popular efforts, although it only reached No. 100 on the ''Billboard'' 200 chart. This was their first album with guitarist Rocky George and drummer R.J. Herrera, and their last recording with bassist Louiche Mayorga (although he did co-write songs on their next album '' How Will I Laugh Tomorrow When I Can't Even Smile Today''). This is also the last album to feature the band playing hardcore punk before an extended period with a more thrash metal focus (on some more recent albums, hardcore punk is again part of the mix). Musical style Mike Muir used vastly different vocal techniques and range compared ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Suicidal Tendencies
Suicidal Tendencies is an American crossover thrash band formed in 1980 in Venice in Los Angeles, California by vocalist Mike Muir. Muir is the only remaining original member of the band. Along with D.R.I., Corrosion of Conformity, and Stormtroopers of Death, the band is often credited as one of "the fathers of crossover thrash". Their current lineup includes Muir, guitarists Dean Pleasants and Ben Weinman, bassist Ra Díaz and drummer Dave Lombardo. Notable musicians who have contributed to the band's studio or live activities include guitarists Rocky George and Mike Clark, bassists Louiche Mayorga, Robert Trujillo, Josh Paul and Stephen "Thundercat" Bruner, and drummers Amery Smith, Jimmy DeGrasso, Brooks Wackerman, David Hidalgo Jr., Thomas Pridgen and session musician Josh Freese. Suicidal Tendencies have released fourteen studio albums (four of which are composed of re-recorded or previously released material), two EPs, four split albums, four compilation albums, and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rocky George
Leonard F. George (born January 9, 1965), best known by his stage name Rocky George, is an American guitarist who has been a member of several notable musical acts, including Suicidal Tendencies, where he was their lead guitarist from 1984 to their first breakup in 1995, and was the first African-American member of the band. After Suicidal Tendencies, George played with 40 Cycle Hum and Cro-Mags, and in 2003, he joined Fishbone. George was also a member of a local punk rock band called Pap Smear with Jeff Hanneman and Dave Lombardo. In 2019, George returned to the Cro-Mags lineup. Biography During his tenure with Suicidal Tendencies, George joined a short-lived punk side project called "Pap Smear", formed by Slayer members Jeff Hanneman and Dave Lombardo. Although Pap Smear has never released any records, two of their songs were re-recorded on Slayer's 1996 covers album ''Undisputed Attitude''. George joined Suicidal Tendencies in 1984, replacing Jon Nelson, who replaced the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Suicidal Tendencies (album)
''Suicidal Tendencies'' is the debut studio album by American hardcore punk band Suicidal Tendencies, released on July 5, 1983 through Frontier Records. Regarded as one of the best-selling and most successful punk rock albums, ''Suicidal Tendencies'' was well-received by fans and critics alike, and the airplay of its only single " Institutionalized" (for which its music video was one of the first hardcore punk videos to get airplay on MTV) brought the band considerable popularity. The album was a major influence on the then-emerging genre of thrash metal and its subgenre crossover. Album information The cover of ''Suicidal Tendencies'' features an image of the band members hanging upside down, taken by Glen E. Friedman, who produced the album. The background on both the front and back cover depict various homemade Suicidal Tendencies T-shirts. "I Shot the Devil" was originally entitled "I Shot Reagan". The band is rumored to have been approached by the FBI to change the name of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mike Muir
Michael Allen Muir (born March 14, 1963) is an American singer who is the lead vocalist and the only sole continuous member of Los Angeles-based bands Suicidal Tendencies, Los Cycos, and Infectious Grooves. He has also released several solo albums under his nickname Cyco Miko. Muir's trademark is wearing bandanas, jerseys with the number 13, and hats with block-style letters that read "suicidal". Early life Born in Venice, Los Angeles, and raised in Santa Monica, Mike Muir is the younger brother of Jim Muir of the Dogtown skateboarding team. Jim exposed Mike to metal music as well as skateboarding. Muir attended Santa Monica College after being kicked out of school in the 10th grade. Career Muir has cited bands such as the Sex Pistols, the Ramones, Black Sabbath, UFO, AC/DC, Van Halen, Emerson, Lake & Palmer, Led Zeppelin, and Kiss as his early musical influences, and has said that he was introduced to funk music by former bandmate Robert Trujillo. Muir incorporated funk in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bad Brains
Bad Brains are an American rock band formed in Washington, D.C. in 1976. Originally a jazz fusion band under the name Mind Power, they are widely regarded as pioneers of hardcore punk, though the band's members have objected to the use of this term to describe their music. They are also an adept reggae band, while later recordings featured elements of other genres like funk, heavy metal, hip hop, and soul. ''Rolling Stone'' magazine called them "the mother of all black hard-rock bands", and they have been cited as a seminal influence to numerous subgenres of heavy metal, including thrash/speed metal, alternative metal, funk metal and rap/nu metal. Bad Brains are followers of the Rastafari movement. Bad Brains have released nine studio albums. They have broken up and reformed several times over their career, sometimes with different singers or drummers. Their classic lineup includes singer H.R., guitarist Dr. Know, bassist Darryl Jenifer, and drummer Earl Hudson. This lineup ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dale Henderson
Dale Henderson (born January 8, 1966) is an American musician. He is best known as the frontman and guitarist of the crossover thrash band Beowülf where he is the only constant member. He composed the music and wrote the lyrics on all of Beowülf's albums. Biography Henderson's musical career began in 1981 when he joined the local punk band Black Sheep. The band also consisted of former Neighborhood Watch former Mike Jensen, Paul Yamada on bass and Mike Jensen's cousin, Roger DeGiacomi, on drums. The band played many parties, bars and clubs in Venice in 1981–1982 before DeGiacomi became the band manager and was replaced by Michael Alvarado on drums in 1983, changing the name of the band to Beowülf or BWF (The F being inverted) as they wrote it in Venice "graffiti slang". Beowülf recorded two albums in the 1980s: '' Beowülf'' (1986) and '' Lost My Head... But I'm Back on the Right Track'' (1988). They had achieved small success with those albums, but difficulty keeping ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Beowülf
Beowülf is an American crossover thrash metal band formed in Venice Beach, California, in 1981 by Michael Alvarado, Dale Henderson, Mike Jensen and Paul Yamada. The group never gained a large mainstream success, but is considered one of the first bands that defined the "Venice Scene" in the 1980s, along with Suicidal Tendencies, Los Cycos, Neighborhood Watch, No Mercy, Excel and Uncle Slam, who all played a mix of skate punk, hardcore, heavy metal and thrash. As of 2011, Beowülf has released six studio albums. They split up in 1995, but reformed in 2000. The band has had numerous line-up changes and Henderson has been the only constant member. Their classic line-up is Henderson (vocals), Mike Jensen (guitar), Paul Yamada (bass) and Michael Alvarado (drums). History Early years (1981–1984) The band started in 1981 as Black Sheep with Dale Henderson on vocals and guitar, former Neighborhood Watch guitar player Mike Jensen on guitar, Paul Tsutomu Yamada on bass and Mike Jen ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
