Roman Surman is an American musician and the current lead guitarist for

Wednesday 13 Joseph Michael Poole (born August 12, 1976), better known by his stage name Wednesday 13, is an American singer and musician. Apart from his solo career, he was the frontman of the horror punk/ heavy metal band Murderdolls and has also played i ...

horror punk Horror punk is a music genre that mixes punk rock and 1950s-influenced doo-wop and rockabilly sounds with morbid and violent imagery and lyrics which are often influenced by horror films and science fiction B-movies. The genre was pioneered b ...

solo band. Surman was also a guitarist for Gunfire 76, Bourbon Crow and the second incarnation of

Murderdolls Murderdolls was an American rock band founded during 2002 in Hollywood, California. The band line-up consisted of the late Joey Jordison, Wednesday 13 , Acey Slade, Eric Griffin, Tripp Eisen and the late Ben Graves. The band released two al ...

, all bands fronted by Wednesday 13.

Career history

Surman's long-standing partnership with Wednesday 13 began with Surman becoming a guitar-tech for his solo band. He first performed as a touring guitarist in Bourbon Crow, an Outlaw country side project he had put together in 2006. Surman was assistant editor and music composer for a short video release by Wednesday 13 called "Weirdo A-Go-Go" in 2008. In 2009 Wednesday 13 put together another side project, a glam metal band called Gunfire 76, releasing one album "Casualties and Tragedies" in October 2009. They toured the UK with "The First Blood Tour" in December of that year. In 2010, Wednesday 13 and Joey Jordison reformed

after an eight year hiatus, selecting a different line-up, including Surman as rhythm guitarist. He toured with the band until the second breakup in 2011. He recorded guitar tracks for their second studio album

Women and Children Last ''Women and Children Last'' is the second and final studio album by American horror punk supergroup Murderdolls released through Roadrunner Records on August 31, 2010, and produced by Chris "Zeuss" Harris. With the exception of Murderdolls touri ...

. After the breakup, Wednesday 13 continued as a solo band with Surman as lead guitarist. He first appeared on 2011's Calling All Corpses and has been on every Wednesday 13 release and tour since except for the Undead Unplugged album. He was co-credited with Wednesday 13 on five tracks on 2015's Monsters of the Universe: Come Out and Plague and had a sole writing credit for "Planet Eater: Interstellar 187", the first time a Wednesday 13 song was credited entirely to someone other than Wednesday 13, not including covers and co-credits.

Discography

With Gunfire 76 * Casualties and Tragedies (2009) With

(2010) With

* Calling All Corpses (2011) * Spook and Destroy (2012) * The Dixie Dead (2013) * Dead Meat: 10 Years of Blood, Feathers & Lipstick (2014) * Monsters of the Universe: Come Out and Plague (2015) *

Condolences Condolences (from Latin ''con'' (with) + ''dolore'' (sorrow)) are an expression of sympathy to someone who is experiencing pain arising from death, deep mental anguish, or misfortune. When individuals condole, or offer their condolences to a par ...

(2017) Necrophaze (2019) Horrifier (2022)

Filmography

With

(Deluxe Edition DVD) (2010) With

* Weirdo A Go-Go (2008) * Scream Britain Scream (2014)

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Surman, Roman American punk rock guitarists Place of birth missing (living people) Lead guitarists Living people Horror punk musicians Year of birth missing (living people)