Madball

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Madball
Madball at the Reload Festival 2018
Madball at the Reload Festival 2018
General information
origin New York (USA)
Genre (s) New York hardcore , crossover
founding 1988
Website http://madballhc.com/
Founding members
Freddy Cricien
guitar
 Vinnie Stigma (1988-1996)
Roger Miret
Will Shepler
Current occupation
singing
 Freddy Cricien
Electric bass
 Jorge "Hoya Roc" Guerra
Drums
 Mike Justian
former members
guitar
 Matt Henderson
guitar
 Rob Rosario
guitar
 Brian "Mitts" Daniels (2001-2017)
Drums
 John Lafatta
Drums
 Darren Morgenthaler
Drums
 Rigg Ross
Drums
 Mackie Jayson (2008)
Drums
 Ben Dussault (2009)
Drums
 Jay Weinberg (2009-2011)
Drums
 Igor Wouters (2011)

Madball is from New York native and founded in 1988 Hardcore - band , which stylistically for later metalcore was groups. Madball, along with Agnostic Front and Sick of It All , is currently one of the most important representatives of New York Hardcore . Singer Freddy Cricien is the half-brother of hardcore legend and agnostic front singer Roger Miret .

history

Freddy Cricien 2004 at a concert in Berlin

Madball was founded in 1988 by Freddy Cricien, who was only twelve years old at the time. In the initial line-up, the former members of Agnostic Front played the other roles: Roger Miret became bassist, Vinnie Stigma , the guitarist of Agnostic Front, also took on this role at Madball and the drums were occupied by Will Shepler, who is also at Agnostic Front played this instrument. In the beginning the band mainly played material from the big sister band and was only active regionally.

A year after their founding, the band released their first EP entitled Ball of Destruction . After a second guitarist joined the band with Matt Henderson, the second EP was released in 1992 with Droppin 'Many Suckers .

The following year Roger Miret left the band and was replaced by Jorge Guerra. The band's first album, Set It Off , was released in 1994 on Roadrunner Records with this new line-up , followed by the album Demonstrating My Style in 1996 . During this time, the band increasingly established itself in the New York hardcore scene and became one of its permanent fixtures. In the 1995/1996 produced and released 1999 documentary NYHC about New York Hardcore worked a. a. also Madball with. And after another line-up change (John Lafatta replaced Walter Ryan on drums, who himself had in the meantime stepped in for Will Shepler), the next album, Look My Way, was released in 1998 .

After releasing another album entitled Hold It Down in 2000 - this time on Epitaph Records - the band took a break of several months in 2001/2002. Then the line-up was changed again: Mitts (previously with Skarhead ) took over the guitar and Rigg Ross (previously with Hatebreed ) played the drums. In this constellation, the band released the albums Legacy (2005, Ferret Music / Roadrunner Records) and Infiltrate the System (2007, Ferret Music / I Scream Records ), the EP NYHC in 2004 and the compilation The Best of Madball in 2003 .

In 2009 Rigg Ross moved to Skarhead, which is why the drums had to be changed again. Ben Dussault took over this role but was soon replaced by Jay Weinberg . The album Empire , released in October 2010 on Good Fight Music and Nuclear Blast , was recorded with this line-up. In September, before the album was released, Weinberg was fired due to personal conflicts and replaced by Igor Wouters from Born from Pain . Mike Justian (ex- Unearth ), who toured with the band since 2011, has been a permanent member of the drums since 2012 .

In June 2012, Rebellion, the band's latest EP was initially available as a download. A version on record followed in the fall. The album Hardcore Lives was released in 2014. In October 2017 guitarist Brian Daniels left the band after 16 years. In 2018 the next album For the Cause was released .

style

Stylistically, the band can be clearly assigned to New York hardcore. On more recent recordings, however, there are also more influences from Thrash Metal .

Band members

Founding members of Madball are singer Freddy Cricien, guitarist Vinnie Stigma, bassist Roger Miret and drummer Will Shepler. The band's current line-up includes Freddy Cricien, bassist Jorge "Hoya Roc" Guerra and drummer Mike Justian. The position of the drums in particular has changed several times over the course of the band's history.

  • Madball, live at With Full Force 2018

  • Singer Freddy Cricien

  • Guitarist Matt Henderson

  • Bass player Jorge Guerra

  • Drummer Mike Justian

Discography

Chart positions
Explanation of the data
Albums
Hardcore lives
  DE 43 07/11/2014 (1 week)
  AT 70 07/11/2014 (1 week)
  CH 61 07/06/2014 (1 week)
For the cause
  DE 28 06/22/2018 (1 week)
  AT 46 06/29/2018 (1 week)
  CH 29 06/24/2018 (1 week)

Albums

EPs

  • 1989: Ball of Destruction ( Relativity Records )
  • 1992: Droppin 'Many Suckers (Wreck-Age)
  • 2004: NYHC (Thorp Records)
  • 2012: Rebellion (Black N Blue)

Web links

Commons : Madball  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Press release: Madball releases drummer Jay Weinberg , Madball's blog on Myspace from September 21, 2010; Accessed July 26, 2012
  2. ↑ Rebellion on Discogs
  3. ↑ Madball announce 'Rebellion' EP , punknews.org, May 25, 2012; Accessed July 26, 2012
  4. ↑ Chart sources: DE AT CH