Unique VIO-LENCE drummer Perry Strickland has formally left the influential San Francisco Bay Space thrash metallic band.
Earlier at the moment, Strickland took to his Instagram to share a video of him performing with VIO-LENCE, and he captioned it: “”I am going to Miss enjoying these songs !”
After one fan requested Perry within the feedback to make clear whether or not he has in reality exited the group, Strickland responded: “sure a few month in the past”.
Among the many individuals reacting to Strickland‘s announcement was former OVERKILL and VIO-LENCE guitarist Bobby Gustafson, who wrote: “Good luck with what ever you do sooner or later. We had some good occasions lastly.”
It isn’t presently clear who will sit behind the drum equipment for VIO_LENCE going ahead. The band is scheduled to play on the Whisky A Go Go in West Hollywood, California on February 25, to be adopted by dates in Asia, Australia and New Zealand in early March.
Gustafson joined VIO-LENCE in January 2020 because the alternative for Ray Vegas however introduced his departure from the band final October. On the time, VIO-LENCE cited “logistical difficulties that weigh too heavy to operate in a productive method” as the explanation for the cut up with Bobby.
In March 2022, VIO-LENCE launched a brand new EP, “Let The World Burn”, through Metallic Blade Information. The five-song assortment, VIO-LENCE‘s first authentic launch since 1993’s “Nothing To Achieve”, was tracked at Trident Studios in Pacheco, California by Juan Urteaga (MACHINE HEAD, EXODUS),combined by Tue Madsen (DARK TRANQUILLITY, HEAVEN SHALL BURN) and mastered by Ted Jensen (ALICE IN CHAINS, DEATH ANGEL).
Fashioned in 1985, VIO-LENCE helped outline and refine what got here to be generally known as the Bay Space sound, dropping three seminal albums earlier than splitting in 1993. Forsaking a heady legacy, they reformed briefly a few occasions within the intervening years earlier than turning into a full-time going concern as soon as extra in 2019. After enjoying a string of profitable reveals, the quintet began to consider new music and delivered “Let The World Burn”, showcasing their first new materials in 29 years.
VIO-LENCE‘s recording lineup on “Let The World Burn” consisted of Gustafson, founding guitarist Phil Demmel, singer Sean Killian and Strickland together with former FEAR FACTORY bassist Christian Olde Wolbers.
VIO-LENCE reunited quickly after Demmel left MACHINE HEAD in late 2018.
Demmel was in MACHINE HEAD for almost 16 years, throughout which era he performed on 5 of the group’s studio albums: “By The Ashes Of Empires” (2003),“The Blackening” (2007),“Unto The Locust” (2011),“Bloodstone & Diamonds” (2014) and “Catharsis” (2018).
VIO-LENCE performed its first present with guitarist Ira Black in August 2022 on the Brutal Assault pageant in Jaromer, Czech Republic.
Black, who grew up within the Bay Space and beforehand performed with VICIOUS RUMORS, HEATHEN and METAL CHURCH, crammed in for Demmel, who was on the highway on the time with LAMB OF GOD because the short-term alternative for Willie Adler.
Though MACHINE HEAD frontman Robb Flynn was a part of VIO-LENCE‘s basic incarnation and performed on the band’s debut album, “Everlasting Nightmare”, he wasn’t approached about participating within the band’s reunion.
Picture courtesy of Perry Strickland‘s Instagram
