Slaughter (American band)

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Slaughter
General information
Genre (s) Hard rock
founding 1989
Website http://www.slaughterweb.com/
Current occupation
Mark Slaughter (since 1989)
Jeff Blando (since 1998)
Dana Strum (since 1989)
Blas Elias (since 1989)
former members
guitar
 Timothy Kelly (1989–1998, † February 5, 1998)

Slaughter is an American hard rock band from Las Vegas , Nevada . The band had a few hit singles in America at the beginning of the 1990s and with their first two albums became one of the last successful hair metal bands before the grunge wave changed the rock landscape for good.

history

Slaughter emerged in 1989 from the group Vinnie Vincent Invasion , the band of the former Kiss guitarist: Dana Strum was a founding member of the band, Mark Slaughter joined the group immediately after the release of the debut album . During the recording of the second album All Systems Go in 1988, the image of the group was corrected at the insistence of the record company ( Chrysalis Records ): Mark Slaughter was to conduct the interviews instead of the band's founder Vinnie Vincent, attention was in favor of a band image of Vinnie Vincent led away. After the tour for the second album, the band broke up on August 26, 1988; Vincent lost his recording deal in 1989.

Slaughter and Strum formed their own band and brought guitarist Timothy Kelly and drummer Blas Elias to the group, which also got their record deal with Chrysalis. The acknowledgments in the production notes indicate early support from the record company to found the band: The group thanked Chrysalis Records for "three years of support".

The 1990 released debut album Stick It to Ya was an instant hit for the band. Slaughter toured as support for Kiss on their US tour, a European tour as support for Cinderella was canceled due to the Iraq war . The singles Up All Night and Fly to the Angels placed in the top 40 of the US charts and Slaughter made it to number 1 on the MTV charts with eight videos . Stick It to Ya was awarded double platinum. Due to the success, the record company released a mini live album called Stick It to Ya Live , which contains five songs.

The second album The Wild Life was released in 1992 and landed at number eight on the Billboard charts. Slaughter toured the US with Ozzy Osbourne , but the grunge boom changed the music landscape practically overnight. MTV stopped playing the band's videos and the second album didn't sell as well as the debut. Even so, the band toured stoically in the years that followed.

The album Fear No Evil , released in 1995, could no longer match the success of the old days and only just got into the Billboard 200 . Revolution (1997) presented the band in a 1960s psychedelic livery and explored new musical paths. This album also flopped. On February 5, 1998, guitarist Tim Kelly died in a traffic accident when he collided with an overturning truck.

The band was in the studio at the time to work on the next album Back to Reality . The recordings were completed with backup guitarist Jeff Blando. At the end of 1998 Slaughter completed the Rock Never Stops tour through the USA together with Firehouse , Warrant and Quiet Riot . The album was released in 1999.

2001 Slaughter toured again and played the Voices of Metal tour with Vince Neil , Vixen and Ratt . Jeff Blando played guitar again. In the same year, drummer Blas Elias was in front of the camera for the Hollywood film Rock Star (with Mark Wahlberg and Jennifer Aniston ), in which he played the drummer of the fictional band Blood Pollution . Slaughter got more airplay in 2001 than in the full five years before. In the same year they played with Whitesnake , Warrant and Winger again on the Rock Never Stops tour. In 2004 the band completed another US tour.

Discography

Chart positions
Explanation of the data
Albums
Stick It to Ya
  CH 32 02/10/1991 (2 weeks)
  DE 58 02/18/1991 (5 weeks)
  US 18th 
Double platinum
× 2
Double platinum
02/17/1990 (85 weeks)
Stick It Live
  US 123 11/24/1990 (20 weeks)
The Wild Life
  CH 37 05/17/1992 (3 weeks)
  UK 64 05/23/1992 (1 week)
  US 8th 
gold
gold
05/09/1992 (23 weeks)
Fear No Evil
  US 182 05/20/1995 (1 week)
Singles
Up all night
  UK 62 09/29/1990 (1 week)
  US 27 April 28, 1990 (14 weeks)
Fly to the Angels
  UK 55 02/02/1991 (1 week)
  US 19th 08/18/1990 (18 weeks)
Spend My Life
  US 39 12/22/1990 (13 weeks)
Real love
  US 69 08/22/1992 (8 weeks)

Studio albums

Live albums and compilations

  • 1991: Stick It to Ya Live (Live)
  • 1995: Mass Slaughter ( Best of )
  • 1998: Eternal Live (Live)
  • 2002: Then and Now (compilation)

Singles and EPs

  • 1990: Spend My Life
  • 1990: Up All Night
  • 1990: Fly to the Angels
  • 1992: Real Love
  • 1996: Hard Times (EP)
  • 1997: American Pie

Video albums

  • 1991: From The Beginning (US:goldgold)
  • 1992: The Wild Life - Home Video (US:goldgold)

literature

  • Stratmann, Holger (Ed.): RockHard Enzyklopädie. 700 of the most interesting rock bands from the last 30 years . Rock Hard Verlag, Dortmund 1998, ISBN 3-9805171-0-1 , p. 379 f .

Web links

Remarks

  1. ^ Julian Gill: The Kiss Album Focus. Volume 2: (1983-96) Hell or High Water. Pp. 61-87.
  2. ^ Dale Sherman: Black Diamond - The Unauthorized Biography of KISS. CG Publishing, 1997, ISBN 1-896522-35-1 .
  3. ↑ Booklet for Stick It to Ya
  4. ^ Joel Whitburn : The Billboard Albums. 6th edition. Record Research, 2006, ISBN 0-89820-166-7 .
  5. ↑ Slaughter on the US Billboard 200 Album Charts
  6. ↑ a b Slaughter in the Official UK Charts (English)
  7. ↑ Stick It to Ya in the German charts on OfficialCharts.de
  8. ↑ Stick It to Ya in the Swiss charts on Hitparade.ch
  9. ↑ Music Sales Awards: US
  10. ↑ Slaughter on the US Billboard Hot 100 Singles Chart