Culprit

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Culprit
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

  1. ↑ a b c Holger Stratmann (Ed.): Rock Hard Encyclopedia . Rock Hard GmbH , Dortmund 1998, ISBN 3-9805171-0-1 , p. 214 .
  2. ↑ 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 .

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