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[BIOGRAPHY]
[Discography]
[Singles]
[Videos]
[Lyrics]
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W.A.S.P. broke new ground in terms of on-stage decadence and lunacy in concert while their recorded efforts stirred enough controversy to land them in serious trouble with governments around the world. It has been only a few years since W.A.S.P. locked horns with Tipper Gore and the PMRC.
In that time W.A.S.P. represented everything the kids wanted and needed in a band. W.A.S.P. was hunted and black-listed by the PMRC for their nefarious activity. But all that attention made W.A.S.P. even more outrageous and controversial.
Now Blackie and Chris are back after several years of separated work and they kick ass again.
"The time is right for W.A.S.P.," Blackie explains, "cause there are not enough bands doing this kind of music. There are few bands who are trying to be extreme - well - they don't know how to do it. If the Exorcist scared people in the 80's it won't scare them now. The same situation is with our shows. If they once scared the people, they won't scare them now so we have to do something about it. After we do a couple of shows, people will realize that we are the filthiest, the meanest, the most disgusting band on the earth. All other bands are going to have to become hippies, 'cause the will be nothing more visually left to do"
NOTE: WE ARE SORRY TO SAY
THAT ALL OF THESE HAVE BEEN PRETTY MUCH
REMASTERED BY BLACKIE AND THE GANG AND WE'RE TOO BROKE TO GIVE YOU
THE UPDATES ON THOSE... :-(
W.A.S.P. Self Titled @ 1984 The Best album ever created, at the height of the 80's invasion and the band I beleive started it all! Songs included I Wanna Be Somebody, L.O.V.E. Machine, The Flame, B.A.D., School Daze, Hellion, (Sleeping(in the fire), On Your KneesTormentor , The Torture Never Stops
@ 1985 The one that led me to W.A.S.P. never forget it, night of firsts, and that was the
only one that outlasted the rest! If you know what I mean, I still listen to this one, nightly!
Songs on here: Wild Child, Ballcrusher, Fistful Of Diamonds , Jack Action, Widowmaker,
Blind In Texas , Cries In The Night [best song ever made!], The Last Command, Running Wild
In The Streets, & Sex Drive
This one and Live In The Raw I got together many years later during a time-out from the metal
scene, so I always get confused which is which... Until I hear them. Of course, that's what
digitially remastered disks help for, those of us who no longer care to listen to our old
albums, yet want real music when it's so damn hard to find! Any band who wants to say that
Blackie is copying Marilyn only need look into one of these classics to see who copied off whom!
Songs on this one included: The Big Welcome, Inside The Electric Circus, I Don't Need No Doctor,
9.5. N.A.S.T.Y., Restless Gypsy, Shoot From The Hip, I'm Alive,
Easy Living , Sweet Cheetah, Mantronic, King Of Sodom And Gomorrah & The Rock Rolls On
@ 1986 We've never been hip on live albums, got this one years
later at a record outlet for $.50 - shhh.... But that won't stop Blackie from recording one
for the fans, unlike of my fav bands some who will refuse to do a live album... Songs off this one:
Inside The Electric Circus, I Don't Need No Doctor, L.O.V.E. Machine, Wild Child,
9.5. - N.A.S.T.Y. , Sleeping (in the fire), The Manimal, [sorry dudes, this one gets my hormones goin each time I
play it!], I Wanna Be Somebody, Harder Faster, [especially after hearing this one afterwards!}], Blind In Texas,
& Scream Until You Like It
Once I regained my sanity and got off the Thompson Twins and Culture Club sound alikes of the past,
[can you guys beleive the dude is still on tour, and like I was soooo shocked when he came out
of the closet - puh-lease!] it was back onto real metal and this particular album!
When I bought my first CD player I purchased two disks, this one and AC/DC's Back N' Black....
Songs on this included The Heretic (the lost child), The Real Me, The Headless Children
Thunderhead, Mean Man, The Neutron Bomber, Mephisto Waltz, Forever Free, [In case you wonered about
the title, from the time of firsts, this was the song to the first to rip my heart in half...]
Maneater, & Rebel In The F.D.G.
I also have a dictated in entirety by Blackie novel of the album, he strums his acoustic and narrates the story. Songs: The Titanic Overture, The Invisible
Boy, Arena Of Pleasure, Chainsaw Charlie (murders in the new morgue), The Gypsy Meets The Boy, Doctor
Rokter, I Am One, The Idol, Hold On To My Heart, & The Great Misconceptions Of Me The cd is a concept album,
when I heard it first it reminded me of Savatage's "Streets A Rock Opera" but that's kind of like comparing
water to wine...
I bet it took them a long time to conceive a "Greatest Hits" W.A.S.P. CD, I mean,
lets face it, they all are... Songs on this include: Animal (fuck like a beast), L.O.V.E.
Machine, I Wanna Be Somebody, On Your Knees , Blind In Texas, Wild Child , I Don't Need No Doctor,
The Real Me , The Headless Children, Mean Man , Forever Free, Chainsaw Charlie, The Idol, Sunset
& Babylon, Hold On To My Heart & Rock And Roll To Death
- 1995 It's a sure fire shot as an editor to know that you've made it when you receive a cd buy
one of your childhood idols to review in the mail, It seems like eons ago, this to me was
one of Blackie's best albums, it's wrote from the heart and really hits home. Well, all of his songs
do that, but this one in particular swore me to be a diehard to the end. There's two versions of this
CD available, the one I have contains these songs. Still Not Black Enough, Skinwalker,
Black Forever, Scared To Death, Goodbye America, Somebody To Love, Keep On Holding On,
Rock N' Roll To Death (teenage anthem!), I Can't, No Way Out Of Here, One Tribe, Tie Your Mother
Down, & Whole Lotta Rosie
Another Album of two's The Tokyo version contains the songs: Kill, Fuck, Die,
Take The Addiction, My Tortured Eyes, Killahead, Kill Your Pretty Face, Tokyo's
On Fire, U, Wicked Love, & The Horror Our version has Kill Fuck Die, Take The Addiction, My
Tortured Eyes, Killahead, Kill Your Pretty Face, Fetus, Little Death, U, Wicked Love,
& The Horror.... The Artwork is also different, I really dug the album until I saw them live and
kept on confusing the intro of one song with the next, not too mention not like I really give a f*ck,
but is all that f*ckn nonsence with the language really f*ckn necessary? What the F*ck do I know, I f*ckn suck right?
The Horror is still the best damn song of this century!
The first time I heard this was
on the way to see Sebastian Bach in Columbus OH. The cool thing about this was not only listening
to my fav. man live on the way to see my other fav man live, it was also the content, after seeing
W.A.S.P. enough times you get to know what he's going to say sometimes even before he does, no not clairvoyance
speaking, if you've seen W.A.S.P. you know what I mean.... It made me want to be there so bad,
and on the way through the flood driven Ohio gig it was the best medicine anyone could give me,
No, I don't need no Doctor, just the man behind the vocals... :-) That's a drug better than heroine could
ever put off!
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W.A.S.P. broke new ground in terms of on-stage decadence and lunacy in concert while their recorded efforts stirred enough controversy to land them in serious trouble with governments around the world. It has been only a few short years since W.A.S.P. locked horns with Tipper Gore (Vice President Al's wife) and the Parents Music Resource Center (PMRC) on Capitol Hill, and subsequently catapulted Blackie Lawless into "Public Enemy Number One" status in the eyes of mommies and daddies across the United States.
But the k i ds could dig it, because W.A.S.P. represented everything they wanted and needed in a band in an age of classic rock ' n ' roll malaise. W.A.S.P. had controversy, rage, and a mere presence that could uncategorically piss their parents off. W.A.S.P. was hunted and black-listed by the PMRC for their nefarious activity. But all that attention only made W.A.S.P. all the more outrageous, all the more controversial. There were rewards for taking those risks as well as pitfalls, but past history is not a big concern for W.A.S.P.. The future is what counts... since those pages are yet to be written.
"The time is right for W.A.S.P.," Blackie explains, "because there are not enough bands doing this kind of music and few bands that are trying to be extreme don't really know how to do it." Music listeners claim nothing's shocking anymore, but Blackie knows where to stab. "Stark realism is the only thing at all. The new record is just a part of the equation. Our live show is going to blow people away to the extent that after we finish doing what we're doing, all bands are going to have to become hippies, because there will be nothing visually left to do." If the early reports from performances in Europe are any indication, watch out: W.A.S.P. leaves nothing for the weak at heart.
Time may not heal all scars, but it certainly helps them fade. After an eight year separation, Blackie (vocals/guitar) and W.A.S.P. co-founder, Chris Holmes (guitar) have reunited forces. The Lawless/Holmes
Written and recorded in Los Angeles during the end of 1996 and early 1997, K.F.D. taps into the darker side of the human psyche. The final recording is the abstract artwork found within bruises that only a predator can see. K.F.D. is the emotional release of vengeance that only the scorned know. Produced by Blackie Lawless and engineered and mixed by Mikey Davis, K.F.D. incorporates modern technology such as samples, loops and computer sequences along with driving guitars, a bombastic rhythm section and, of course, Blackie's Inimitable vocals. Michael Duda (bassist) and Stet Howland (drummer) fill out the W.A.S.P. line-up. Brutally violent, sexually explicit and politically incorrect, tracks like "Take The Addiction," MY Tortured Eyes," "Killahead," and "K.F.D." are W.A.S.P. at their over-the-top finest. After just one listen, It is rather apparent that W.A.S.P. have returned to their crimson-spattered roots of sex, blood, and rock 'n' roll.
"This was the single most difficult record I've ever had to make," Blackie said. 'You look at the music I've done with Chris and then the stuff without Chris; his influence is all over this album. Chris is the single most angry man I've ever met In my life and I feed off his anger. Chris and I started writing at his demo studio. We spent a few months just bouncing ideas off each other. I look at songs like a puzzle In the sense that I have a vague idea where certain parts are going to be. I'm pretty good at chop rock because I go in with a hatchet and start moving stuff around until it feels right. It took a lot of effort to get these songs to where I felt they were their strongest."
For W.A.S.P., K.F.D. is a new dimension, appropriately deemed "snuff rock" The music itself is violently sonic and multltextured, upping the ante to separate the pretenders from the originators. The live show conjures up expletives as adjectives, disturbing to say the very least. W.A.S.P. have brought back a crucial element to music that has been missing for the past several years... danger! Subtlety has never been a W.A.S.P. strong point, but with the release of "K.F.D.", W.A.S.P. have re-written the rules for extreme rock n' roll.
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