Wednesday 13: A Profile of the Horror Metal Band

Wednesday 13, the band not the lead singer with the same name, Indulges listeners its in "horror movie" based metal. The group formed in 2004 and continue to play. The movies this band play off range form "House on Haunted Hill" in their song "The Ghost of Vincent Price" all the way up to the Jason movies in their song "Till Death Do Us Party". The bands official website is located here www.wednesday13.com. Their band members range from members of the band Dope to the band Static-X. Their music is off culture and to some might be slightly offensive in nature but the beat and sound of their music more then makes up for it. But some of their songs are a little... odd shall we say. All music and lyrics are written by Wednesday 13. All guitars, bass, keyboards and vocals on the recordings are by Wednesday 13. After Wednesday 13's primary band the Murderdolls went on hiatus, he went on a solo tour of the United Kingdom in March 2004, called the "Graveyard A Go-Go" tour. For his live performances he was joined by members of Florida horror punk band Death Becomes You, though this was not meant to be permanent.

Permanent line-up

When Wednesday 13 returned to North Carolina in June 2004 he began to put together a more permanent band, with whom he would perform with under the Wednesday 13 name. He brought in a former Frankenstein Drag Queens member Ikky on guitar. The band took heavily influenced by the likes of KISS and Alice Cooper, while at the same time not straying far from the band members previous horror punk related projects. In September 2004 Ikky was replaced with Matt Montgomery also known as Piggy D., who had recently departed from the band Amen. Together the Wednesday 13 band toured Europe in November 2004 on the "Look What The Bats Dragged In" tour, some of dated were supported by English rockers Viking Skull.

Transylvania 90210

In 2005 after touring,they released their debut album "Transylvania 90210", and made a promotional video for the track "I Walked With A Zombie", the video depicted the band members in footage from the original Night of the Living Dead horror movie. Following the albums release the group embarked on a tour of the United Kingdom; "Tour from the Crypt".

Also in 2005 they played on the main-stage of Download Festival at Donington, but perhaps the crowning moment for the group so far was when they opened some shows for their idol, Alice Cooper around Halloween.

Wednesday 13 parted ways with Roadrunner Records, before signing a new deal with Rykodisc, which then released a new album on named Fang Bang on September 12th, 2006.

Member changes in 2006

During March and April of 2006 all of the members of the band parted ways with Wednesday 13, first the bassist Kid Kid, to concentrate fully on his solo project. It was announced that Argyle Goolsby of Blitzkid would be filling in at three live shows, before the band found a permanent replacement. Then 13 announced that guitarist Piggy D and Ghastly had also left the band, 13 stated that he maintains an amicable relationship with all the former members and wished them luck.

On the band's official website, 13 wrote that there would be a special Wednesday 13 line-up for a Cancer research benefit concert, and the following gig. This line-up brought Wednesday 13 and his Murderdolls band mate Eric Griffin back together for the first time since 2003. Griffin took on guitar playing duties, also joining him was drummer Racci Shay and bassist Brix from the band Dope . It was later announced that this line-up, aside from Brix would be permanent.

A list of members, now and then, Videos and Discography.

Current

* Wednesday 13 - vocals and guitar
* Eric Griffin - guitar
* Racci Shay - drums
* Nate Manor - bass

Former

* Nicodemous - live bass (2004)
* Christopher Lee - live drums (2004)
* Gory - live guitar (2004)
* Ikky - guitar (2004)
* Piggy D - guitar (2004-2006)
* Brix Milner - live bass (2006)
* Argyle Goolsby - live bass (2006)
Music Videos

* I Walked With A Zombie (2005)
* Bad Things (2005)
* My Homesweet Homicide (2006)
Discography

* Transylvania 90210: Songs of Death, Dying, and the Dead (2005)
* Fang Bang (August 29, 2006)

This is a band I would recommend to and would easily give it a 8/10 at best.

Band information curtosy of Wikipedia.