Culprit
Culprit | |
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General information | |
origin | Seattle , USA |
Genre (s) | Heavy metal |
founding | 1982, 2010 |
resolution | 1984 |
Website | www.culpritonline.com |
Founding members | |
Jeff L'Heureux (until 1984) | |
Kjartan Kristoffersen (until 1984) | |
guitar |
John DeVol |
Scott Earl | |
Bud Burill | |
Current occupation | |
singing |
Steve Nations (since 2010) |
guitar |
John DeVol |
guitar |
Tim Kleiman (since 2010) |
bass |
Scott Earl |
Drums |
Bud Burill |
Culprit is an American heavy metal band from Seattle .
history
In 1979 the two heavy metal bands Orpheus and Amethyst played a concert at a high school . Since both bands could not achieve any notable success, the Orpheus members John DeVol ( guitar ), Scott Earl ( bass ) and Bud Burill ( drums ) formed the band with the amethyst singer Jeff L'Heureux and the guitarist Kjartan Kristoffersen in 1982 Culprit. The band name is the English word for accused .
In the founding year, the band released two demos and controlled a song for the sampler U.S. Metal, Vol. 2 at. Eventually the band was signed by Shrapnel Records . In the fall of 1983, the debut album Guilty as Charged was released, which musically offers a mixture of hard rock of the 1970s and the New Wave of British Heavy Metal . The German magazine Rock Hard named Guilty as Charged "Album of the Month", which later took place 476 in a list of the 500 best albums of all time compiled by Rock Hard .
The band's success surprised the band and singer Jeff L'Heureux in particular struggled with drug problems in the period that followed . After Scott Earl and Kjartan Kristoffersen left the band for TKO , Culprit broke up. In 1985 the band briefly reformed and released another demo. Twelve years later the band played a concert in Seattle in front of over 4,000 spectators. Since singer Jeff L'Heureux had recently been arrested, Scott Earl took over the vocals. In the following years the band played a few concerts.
In 2005 the compilation Innocent 'Til Proven Guilty was released . Five years later, Culprit officially reunited with the new singer Steve Nations and guitarist Tim Kleinman.
Discography
- 1983: Guilty as Charged
- 2005: Innocent 'Til Proven Guilty (compilation)
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c Holger Stratmann (Ed.): Rock Hard Encyclopedia . Rock Hard GmbH , Dortmund 1998, ISBN 3-9805171-0-1 , p. 214 .
- ↑ Rock Hard (Ed.): Best of Rock & Metal - The 500 strongest discs of all time . Heel Verlag , Königswinter 2005, ISBN 3-89880-517-4 , p. 16 .
Web links
- Official website
- Culprit at Allmusic (English)