Vincent Signorelli is a

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from

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. He has toured in clubs throughout the world, primarily with

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, NYC's infamous noise rock trio. He has played primarily with

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, Unsane, and

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. Additionally, he has done session work with

Lubricated Goat Lubricated Goat are an Australian noise rock band which originally formed in 1986 by multi-instrumentalist Stu Spasm. They achieved brief notoriety in November 1988 for appearing nude on the ABC TV program ''Blah Blah Blah'', wearing only their ...

, Of Cabbages and Kings, and the slo-core band

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. Concurrent with his involvement in Unsane, Signorelli runs a tattoo shop in New York called True Blue located in Queens on Fresh Pond Road.

Biography

Signorelli's involvement with the New York punk scene began quite early, playing drums with the Dots. It is the Dots drum kit that was used during a recording session with the

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. In 1991, he joined

and played percussion on their album ''

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'', with

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serving as the primary drummer. Signorelli took over as the main drummer for their next album titled ''

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'', released the following year. In 1993, Signorelli joined the American

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band

, replacing original drummer

Charlie Ondras Charlie Ondras was an American drummer from New York and a founding member of the noise rock band Unsane (band), Unsane, formerly Lawn-Chair-Blisters.

who had died the previous year.Jones, Brad
"Unsane in the Brain"
Unsane Biography. October 1994, cited 31 March 2011. He has recently joined a band called

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with Josh Graham (

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, ex

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Battle of Mice Battle of Mice was an American post-metal supergroup consisting of Julie Christmas (Made Out of Babies), Josh Graham (ex-Neurosis, ex-Red Sparowes, A Storm of Light), Joel Hamilton (Book of Knots), Tony Maimone (Book of Knots, Pere Ubu), and Jo ...

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) on guitar and vocals, Domenic Seita (ex

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and Asea) on bass, and Pete Angevine (Satanized) on additional drums and percussion. They released their debut album in June 2008. Not many know that he made a guest appearance on 'MTV Downtown Julie Brown' playing drums for

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on the song "I've Been Thinking About You".

Discography

References

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* American punk rock drummers American male drummers Noise rock musicians Living people Musicians from Brooklyn Lubricated Goat members Of Cabbages and Kings members Swans (band) members Unsane members American rock drummers Year of birth missing (living people) {{US-rock-drummer-stub