Suicidal tendencies

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Suicidal tendencies
Norje Festival 2010, Blekinge, Sweden
Norje Festival 2010, Blekinge, Sweden
General information
Genre (s) Hardcore punk , skate punk , crossover , thrash metal
founding 1982, 1997
resolution 1995
Website suicidaltendencies.com
Founding members
Mike Muir
Grant Estes
Louiche Mayorga
Amery Smith
Current occupation
singing
 Mike Muir
guitar
 Jeff Pogan
guitar
 Dean Pleasants
bass
 Ra Diaz
Drums
 Dave Lombardo
former members
guitar
 Rocky George (1984-1995)
bass
 Robert Trujillo (1989-1995)
Drums
 Jimmy DeGrasso (1992–1995)
Drums
 Ron Bruner, Jr. (2001-2005)
bass
 Stephen Bruner ( Thundercat ) (2002)
bass
 Tim Williams † (2010-2014)

Suicidal Tendencies ( English for ' suicidal tendencies') is an American hardcore band from Southern California with influences from thrash metal and funk .

Band history

Mike Muir in action

Founded in 1982 in Venice Beach in a shared apartment, the band initially only played at parties and in smaller clubs and halls. In 1983 she released her self-titled debut album on the independent label Frontier Records and the single Institutionalized . With Join the Army they made it into the Top 100 Billboard charts for the first time in 1987 , which was accompanied by years of bans on appearing in California and FBI surveillance due to their appearance in the style of Venice Beach-based Venice 13, a Mexican-American street gang. Their increasing popularity was also shown by the fact that the music videos of the band, unlike those of many other punk / hardcore bands, also ran on MTV and other broadcasters; Suicidal Tendencies even made a cameo in the cult crime series Miami Vice . After a short break, How Will I Laugh Tomorrow When I Can't Even Smile Today followed in 1988 . In the early 1990s, after they released the album Lights… Camera… Revolution! published, they finally went on tour with groups like Metallica or Guns n 'Roses , which increased their level of awareness even more. In 1992 the album The Art of Rebellion followed . On the subsequent tour in the fall, the band took the Rage Against the Machine, which is about to release their debut, with them. Including the successor Suicidal for Life (1994), this was the band's most commercially successful phase. In between the 1993 debut album was re-recorded under the title Still Cyco After All These Years . The provisional dissolution followed in 1995. Mike Muir's saying was known : "I would rather dissolve Suicidal two years too early than two minutes too late". Another reason for the breakup was the band's hope to break away from Sony and take their publications and management into their own hands again.

In 1997 he reformed the band, this time with Dean Pleasants from Infectious Grooves on lead guitar. Former rhythm guitarist Mike Clark has been back since 2000. The band has not been able to build on their old successes so far, but they still enjoy a high reputation in the punk and hardcore as well as the skateboard scene. On the Resistance Tour 2003, Mike Muir suffered a back injury that repeatedly led to complications. For example, the tour planned for 2005 had to be canceled, and the release of a new CD ( Return to Venice ) and a live DVD ( Live at Grand Olympic Auditorium , October 29, 2005) were repeatedly postponed.

In October 2008 a new drummer was presented with Eric Moore II, and in the course of the 25th anniversary there were a few gigs in France and a small US tour in November. In the spring of 2009 new material was released - but not as a separate album, but similar to the Friends & Family samplers together with new songs from the Infectious Grooves and Mike Muir's side project Cyco Miko . The album is entitled Year of the Cycos .

In 2013, after 13 years, the new studio album 13 was released . On August 27, 2014, the band announced the death of their bassist Tim Williams on their Facebook page.

Style and influence

Suicidal tendencies shaped their own style with their music, which was then often copied. In addition, they created their own lifestyle , which found many followers in the punk and hardcore scene especially in the eighties and early 1990s. As a songwriter, Mike Muir denounces social grievances on the one hand, but also writes lyrics about the inner world of the misunderstood on the other. Fans of the band refer to themselves as "Suicycos" or just "Cycos" (in English: "Psychos"), based on the nickname of front man Mike "Cyco Miko" Muir. Only Mike Muir remains of the original line-up of the band, who runs his own record label, Suicidal Records, on which the records for the many side projects of Suicidal Tendencies appear. Well-known side projects are Infectious Grooves or Cyco Miko. There is also a tattoo shop Suicidal Tattoos in Venice Beach, home of the band .

Suicidal tendencies also shaped their own style of clothing. Flip-up baseball caps, blue bandanas and basketball shirts with the Suicidal logo and the number 13 on it are probably the most striking examples.

Discography

Chart positions
Explanation of the data
Albums
Join the army
  UK 81 05/09/1987 (1 week)
  US 100 05/23/1987 (13 weeks)
How Will I Laugh Tomorrow When I Can't Even Smile Today
  US 111 10/01/1988 (12 weeks)
Controlled by Hatred
  US 150 10/28/1989 (5 weeks)
Lights… Camera… Revolution!
  UK 59 07/21/1990 (1 week)
  US 101 07/21/1990 (15 weeks)
The Art of Rebellion
  DE 35 08/03/1992 (11 weeks)
  US 52 07/18/1992 (10 weeks)
Still Cyco After All These Years
  DE 68 06/21/1993 (9 weeks)
  US 117 07/03/1993 (3 weeks)
Suicidal for Life
  DE 32 07/04/1994 (9 weeks)
  CH 43 07/17/1994 (3 weeks)
  UK 87 07/02/1994 (1 week)
  US 82 07/02/1994 (3 weeks)
Freedumb
  DE 90 06/28/1999 (1 week)
Free Your Soul and Save My Mind
  DE 92 09/11/2000 (1 week)
13
  US 187 04/13/2013 (1 week)
World Gone Mad
  DE 41 07/10/2016 (1 week)
  CH 72 10/09/2016 (1 week)
  US 192 10/22/2016 (1 week)
Still Cyco Punk After All These Years
  DE 94 14.09.2018 (1 week)
Singles
Send me your money
  UK 83 October 27, 1990 (2 weeks)

Web links

Commons : Suicidal Tendencies  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c Marc Halupczok : Who invented it? . In: Metal Hammer . Special issue No. 1/2012: History of Metal , p. 23.
  2. ^ Marc Halupczok: Changeable winds . In: Metal Hammer . Special issue No. 1/2012: History of Metal , p. 26f.
  3. ↑ Suicidal Tendencies bassist Tim Williams is dead. Obituary in Metal Hammer from August 27, 2014 (accessed August 27, 2014).
  4. ↑ Chart sources: DE CH UK US1 US2
Suicidal tendencies
Mike Muir  • Mike Clark  • Dean Pleasants  • Steve Bruner • Eric Moore
Mike Ball • Rick Battson • Ron Bruner • Jimmy DeGrasso  • Mike Dunnigan • Sean Dunnigan • Carlos Egert • Grant Estes  • Andrew Evans • Josh Freese  • Anthony Gallo  • Rocky George  • Bob Heathcote  • RJ Herrera  • Dave Hidalgo  • Louiche Mayorga  • Jon Nelson  • Josh Paul  • Amery Smith  • Robert Trujillo  • Brooks Wackerman


Studio albums

Suicidal Tendencies  • Join the Army  • How Will I Laugh Tomorrow When I Can't Even Smile Today  • Lights… Camera… Revolution!  • The Art of Rebellion  • Suicidal for Life  • Freedumb  • Free Your Soul and Save My Mind  • 13

Compilation albums

Controlled by Hatred / Feel Like Shit… Déjà Vu  • FNG  • Still Cyco After All These Years  • Prime Cuts  • Playlist: The Very Best of Suicidal Tendencies  • No Mercy Fool! / The Suicidal Family