American heavy metal band
W.A.S.P.
is an American
heavy metal
band formed in 1982. They emerged from the early 1980s Los Angeles heavy metal scene. The band's popularity peaked that decade, yet they continue to record and tour. W.A.S.P. gained notoriety for their
shock rock
-themed image, lyrics and live performances. They have sold over twelve million records worldwide,
[5]
with their first two albums,
W.A.S.P.
(1984) and
The Last Command
(1985), being
certified as gold
by the
RIAA
.
[6]
W.A.S.P. was a target in the mid-1980s of the
Parents Music Resource Center
(PMRC), an organization that pushed for
warning labels
on recorded music. The band immortalized its fight with the PMRC on the song "Harder, Faster" from their 1987 live album,
Live... in the Raw
. Their most well-known songs include "
Animal (F**k Like a Beast)
", "
I Wanna Be Somebody
", "L.O.V.E. Machine", "
Wild Child
", "Blind in Texas", "Forever Free", "The Headless Children", "Chainsaw Charlie (Murders in the New Morgue)" and "The Idol", as well as their cover versions of
Ray Charles
' "
I Don't Need No Doctor
" and
The Who
's "
The Real Me
". The band's most recent studio album,
Golgotha
, was released in 2015 and they have been working on new material.
[7]
[8]
[9]
History
[
edit
]
Early years and rise to fame (1982?1985)
[
edit
]
W.A.S.P. began following the demise of Circus Circus, a Los Angeles-based band featuring
Blackie Lawless
and
Randy Piper
. The original lineup of W.A.S.P. was formed in Los Angeles, California, in 1982 by Lawless, Piper,
Rik Fox
, and
Tony Richards
. The band became notorious for its raunchy and, at times, shocking live shows. Lawless was known to tie semi-naked models to a torture rack, and to also hurl raw meat into the audience.
[10]
The band's debut single, entitled "
Animal (F**k Like a Beast)
", and its cover were equally controversial.
[10]
The first lineup did not last for long, as Rik Fox was let go and went on to join the band
Steeler
with vocalist
Ron Keel
and guitarist
Yngwie Malmsteen
. He was replaced by Don Costa, the bassist in Richards' former band, Dante Fox (which later evolved into
Great White
). Shortly afterward, Costa also left the band and his position on the bass was filled by Brayden Parker. At the same time, guitarist
Chris Holmes
joined the band.
W.A.S.P. signed to
Capitol Records
for their debut album,
W.A.S.P.
, released on August 17, 1984.
[10]
The debut was at one time planned for release with the title
Winged Assassins
. The band's first single, "Animal (F**k Like a Beast)", was omitted from the album in the United States to prevent it from being banned from major chain stores.
[10]
W.A.S.P.
was accompanied by the band's first world tour, performing with numerous bands such as
Kiss
,
[11]
Iron Maiden
,
[12]
Dokken
,
[11]
Krokus
,
[13]
Helix
,
[13]
Quiet Riot
,
[14]
Armored Saint
,
[15]
and a then-relatively unknown
Metallica
.
[15]
Shortly afterwards, the band made an appearance in the 1984 film
The Dungeonmaster
and on the soundtrack to
Ghost Warrior
with the song "Tormentor".
"L.O.V.E. Machine" and "I Wanna Be Somebody" helped the album sell, and set the band up for "Blind in Texas", a song written in St. Paul, Minnesota, by Lawless. The song was included on their next album
The Last Command
in September 1985.
[10]
The Last Command
remains W.A.S.P.'s highest-charting album, peaking at No. 47 on the Billboard album chart. "Blind in Texas" is perhaps their best known song, more than three decades after its release.
[10]
The Last Command
was also the first album with new drummer
Steve Riley
(formerly of
Keel
),
[10]
who had replaced Richards at the beginning of the 1984-1985 tour. W.A.S.P. supported the album by participating in two arena tours, opening for
Kiss
on their
Asylum
tour
,
[16]
and, along with a then-unknown
Anthrax
, they supported
Black Sabbath
on their
Seventh Star
tour.
[17]
After
The Last Command
tour, Piper departed the band.
[10]
Former King Kobra bassist
Johnny Rod
joined W.A.S.P. as Lawless went back to playing rhythm guitar.
[10]
Around this time, W.A.S.P. became a very prominent target of the
Parents Music Resource Center
(PMRC),
[10]
an organization led by
Tipper Gore
and dedicated to opposing music with lyrics deemed violent or overtly sexual in content. This lowered the band's reputation to such a degree that concert halls were getting bomb threats, band members were receiving death threats by the hundreds, and Lawless was shot at twice (though not hit). The controversy generated valuable publicity for the band.
[1]
Mainstream success (1986?1989)
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]
With the lineup changes made, they recorded their third album, titled
Inside the Electric Circus
.
[10]
It was released in October 1986,
[10]
and a near year-long world tour in support of the album followed, including supporting
Iron Maiden
on their
Somewhere in Time
tour
in Europe,
[18]
and a headlining North American tour with
Slayer
,
Raven
and
Saxon
.
[19]
Inside the Electric Circus
received a mixed reaction from the music press: it was considered a big hit with W.A.S.P. fans, while critics, on the other hand, dismissed it as "7th-grader rock".
[
citation needed
]
Songs like "Shoot From The Hip" and the minor hit single "95-N.A.S.T.Y." helped the band live up to the reputation of one of the possible meanings of their band name, "We Are Sexual Perverts". However, Blackie Lawless himself, known to be a harsh critic of his own work, cited in the album's re-release liner notes that
Inside the Electric Circus
was "[a] tired record by a tired band." Ultimately it was an unfavorable critical review of the single "95-N.A.S.T.Y." that convinced Lawless to take some time off and reconsider the band's creative direction.
In 1987, W.A.S.P. had their song "Scream Until You Like It" included on the soundtrack of the movie
Ghoulies 2
. The same year, a few dates during the
Inside the Electric Circus
tour were recorded and on November 27, 1987, the Long Beach arena concert was released as the
Live... in the Raw
album.
[10]
By this time, Riley had left W.A.S.P. to join
L.A. Guns
, and was replaced by local drummer Chad Nelson.
[10]
Then-eighteen-year-old Glenn Soderling, who had recorded an album in 1983 with the band
Pandemonium
,
[20]
then joined the band,
[21]
but did not play any shows due to Holmes' illness.
[21]
Soderling left during rehearsals
[22]
and was replaced by Kelly Martella for their
Donington
appearance and a
Top of the Pops
performance of "Scream Until You Like It" on the
BBC
.
[23]
Martella went on to join the band Silent Rage (Simmons Records) in 1988. Soderling later surfaced under the name "Tripp Holland" in the band Engines of Aggression
[24]
with former
Tomorrow's Child
members
Rik Schaffer
and Craig Dollinger,
[25]
and is currently making music for TV shows as staff writer with Supersonic Noise.
[26]
W.A.S.P.'s fourth studio album,
The Headless Children
, was released on April 15, 1989, and was their first album without any overtly sexually explicit songs.
[10]
The album reached the band's highest chart position with No. 48
[27]
on the
Billboard
200
before falling off the charts in 13 weeks. However, it was W.A.S.P.'s most critically acclaimed work up to that point and, according to a recent Lawless interview,
[
citation needed
]
it is now the highest-selling W.A.S.P. album to date. The drumming duties for the album were handled by former
Quiet Riot
drummer
Frankie Banali
.
[10]
It features two of the band's most highly acclaimed songs, the
power ballad
"
Forever Free
" and a cover of
The Who
's "
The Real Me
". W.A.S.P. went on tour in the United States with
Accept
and
Metal Church
to support
The Headless Children
, playing at smaller venues such as clubs and theaters, as opposed to the arenas and stadiums that had propelled the band into success.
[28]
Post-Chris Holmes period (1989?1995)
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]
Chris Holmes left the band in August 1989, stating that he wanted to "have fun, you know." Lawless responded with a caustic remark about the fact that "some guys want to stay at home and wear aprons," hinting at the nature of Chris Holmes' relationship with his new wife
Lita Ford
. The band effectively disbanded a few months later, with Blackie Lawless embarking on a short lived solo career.
[10]
Lawless was originally slated to play the
T-1000
terminator in the movie
Terminator 2: Judgment Day
, but was later replaced by
Robert Patrick
after
Arnold Schwarzenegger
deemed Lawless "too tall" (1.93m).
[29]
Blackie commenced work on his solo project, but under pressure from both promoters and fans, he released it as a W.A.S.P. album. Ironically, many critics feel that the resulting concept album,
The Crimson Idol
, has been the best W.A.S.P. output so far.
[
citation needed
]
The follow-up to
The Crimson Idol
was
Still Not Black Enough
(1995), a collection of dark, introspective tunes that extended the
Crimson Idol
mythology.
[10]
This time, rather than "hiding behind"
alter ego
Jonathan Steele, Lawless spoke directly to the audience about his own feelings (as stated in the liner notes). While the album lacked the cohesiveness of its predecessor, the lyrics still explored similar topics to
Crimson Idol
: being an outcast and misfit, the pressures of fame and society, and the search for love.
Still Not Black Enough
also included cover songs as "bonus tracks". The initial European edition included a different track listing from the American version and a subsequent American re-issue featured yet a different track listing. No version to date includes all the various tracks on one disc.
Reunion with Chris Holmes (1996?2001)
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]
Chris Holmes returned to W.A.S.P. in 1996 and together they released
Kill.Fuck.Die
(1997) and
Helldorado
(1999).
[10]
They also recorded two live albums from these tours,
Double Live Assassins
and
The Sting
respectively.
The Sting
CD and DVD were taken directly from an experimental webcast that Lawless claims to have had no control over. This release angered him as he was unhappy with the sound and picture quality.
The band continued with the album
Unholy Terror
in 2001. Holmes left the band once again that year, stating that he wanted to "play the blues". He hooked up with fellow ex-W.A.S.P. member Randy Piper's band Animal, but soon dropped out of that project also. Holmes, for his part, has claimed he never played on
Unholy Terror
.
[30]
Dying for the World
and the
Neon God
albums (2002?2005)
[
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]
Dying for the World
, released in 2002, was written and recorded in less than a year which is very fast by Lawless' perfectionist standards. Its liner notes feature one of Lawless' strongest statements about political correctness, inspired by the
9/11
terrorist attacks.
In April 2004, W.A.S.P. released the first part of
The Neon God
, subtitled
The Rise
, a conceptual album about an abused and orphaned boy who finds that he has the ability to read and manipulate people. The second part,
The Demise
, was released in September 2004.
In 2005, W.A.S.P. headlined American Metal Blast. A video shoot for the track "Never Say Die" was planned with Ward Boult, a
fetish
photographer, directing. To this day, there has been no news as to whether the shoot resulted in anything concrete. It would have been the first W.A.S.P. promo video in ten years, the last being 1995's "Black Forever".
Dominator
and
Babylon
(2006?2014)
[
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]
Early 2006 saw the seemingly stable lineup fall apart. Long-time session and tour drummer
Stet Howland
left first (on amicable terms), promising more specific information about the reasons for the split to be posted on his website. Larry Howe of
Vicious Rumors
was considered as a replacement. In May, the departure of guitarist
Darrell Roberts
, who went on to join the band
Five Finger Death Punch
, was announced and new guitar player Mark Zavon was brought in several days before the first tour date. The same press release confirmed
Mike Dupke
, and not Howe, would be the new drummer. Furthermore, two days later, Zavon was out of the picture as well, seeing
Doug Blair
step in on guitar.
A new album,
Dominator
was planned for release in October 2006, according to a statement made by Blackie Lawless at a tour stop in
Kavarna
. He then went on to play a new song from the album, entitled
Mercy
. A few weeks later, the release of the album was postponed until April 2007, with the band recording two news songs and dropping two cover songs, to be used instead as bonus tracks. In October 2007, W.A.S.P. embarked on
The Crimson Idol
Tour, to celebrate that album's 15th anniversary. It was the first time that the album, often regarded to be among the band's finest work, was performed in full from start to finish. The tour kicked off in Greece, in
Thessaloniki
at the Principal Club Theater on October 26, 2007.
The release of the
Dominator
album was finalized for April 16 in the UK, April 20 in Scandinavia with the rest of mainland Europe following on April 27. The release dates for South America and Russia followed in early May.
Dominator
reached No. 72 on the charts in Germany.
[31]
W.A.S.P. canceled their North American tour due to their record label's loss of a distributor.
[
citation needed
]
They were going to finish up their shows in Europe and then reschedule their shows in the United States. They were unable to finish the shows in Europe because of a "family illness that needed immediate attention" which forced the band to return to Los Angeles right away. They were originally going to perform at
Rocklahoma
. As the tour was canceled, W.A.S.P. was not able to perform at Rocklahoma and was replaced by
Queensryche
.
W.A.S.P. announced a European tour which included dates in Scotland, England and other places throughout Europe in late October 2007.
W.A.S.P. released their fourteenth studio album, entitled
Babylon
in late 2009, via
Demolition Records
.
Shortly after the release of
Babylon
, Blackie Lawless declared that he was never going to play the song "Animal (Fuck Like A Beast)" live again, due to his religious beliefs.
[32]
These beliefs are what have allegedly been behind Blackie Lawless' self-censorship of his own lyrics during the "Babylon World Tour", most notably during the performance of "Chainsaw Charlie (Murders In The New Morgue)".
On The Beast of Babylon Tour, Blackie canceled two shows within a week of each other. The first cancellation came about at the Gramercy Theater in New York City after the band discovered that the venue had been selling
V.I.P.
meet and greet tickets for twice the amount of the general admission price. The band made a statement claiming, "We have never charged a fan for an autograph and will never charge any fans for an autograph."
[33]
The second cancellation occurred when the Crocodile Rock venue in Allentown, Pennsylvania wanted 50% of all of the band's profit, according to Lawless.
On September 21, 2012, the band celebrated the 30th anniversary of their first ever live show by kicking off a world tour at The Forum in London. The set for the tour was split into three sections: songs from the first four albums, a cut-down rendition of the Crimson Idol performance and a final segment for newer material.
[34]
Golgotha
, 25th anniversary of
The Crimson Idol
and next album (2015?present)
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]
W.A.S.P.'s fifteenth studio album,
Golgotha
, was released on October 2, 2015.
[35]
The album took four years to materialize.
[36]
W.A.S.P. toured in 2017 to commemorate the 25th anniversary of the release of
The Crimson Idol
. To coincide with this anniversary, the band released
Reidolized (The Soundtrack to the Crimson Idol)
on February 2, 2018, which came with the original
The Crimson Idol
movie on DVD and Blu-ray, and includes six tracks that were originally intended to be part of the original version of the album.
[37]
In December 2017, it was reported that W.A.S.P. had been working on new material for the follow-up to
Golgotha
.
[7]
No news on the album had surfaced for more than three years, until December 2020 when
Loudwire
listed it as one of the 88 "Most Anticipated Rock + Metal Albums" of 2021.
[8]
Progress on a new album had continued to be slow by January 2022, when frontman
Blackie Lawless
stated in an interview with
Eddie Trunk
that the band has "quite a bit of material that [they've] been working on diligently actually."
[9]
Former W.A.S.P. drummer
Frankie Banali
died of pancreatic cancer on August 20, 2020,
[38]
making him the second deceased member of
The Crimson Idol
-era lineup, following
Bob Kulick
who had died three months earlier.
[39]
The band embarked on their first North American tour in over a decade from October to December 2022, with support from
Armored Saint
, and on selected dates,
Michael Schenker
.
[40]
While on their North American tour, Lawless stated that he and the band use backing tracks in their live performances during a Q&A session.
[41]
Additional tours, including in Europe and North America, were rescheduled to spring 2023 and again to 2024 due to the pandemic situation in Europe as well as Lawless' "extensive back injuries".
[42]
[43]
[44]
Band name meaning
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]
There has been much speculation over the origin of the band's name, and whether it actually stands for anything, since it is written as an
acronym
. One possible interpretation is "
White Anglo-Saxon Protestants
", being the original meaning of the acronym. The song "Show No Mercy", the
B-side
of the band's first single "
Animal
", contains the repeated lyric, "White Anglo-Saxon / A violent reaction".
The original U.S. release of the band's debut album
W.A.S.P.
had the words "We Are Sexual Perverts" inscribed on both sides around the label in the center, while "Winged Assassins" is inscribed on the spine of the first vinyl pressing. When asked about the band's name, Lawless has avoided giving a straight answer. In one interview he answered, "We Ain't Sure, Pal."
[45]
In a February 2010 interview, Lawless stated the main reason for the name was the
periods
. He claimed no band had ever used them before and, in essence, the periods created a "question mark of uncertainty" to make W.A.S.P. stand out more. He then went on to say, "Look where we are: it did!"
[46]
In an interview published on
YouTube
in 2020, former bassist
Rik Fox
explained that the name came about after an incident outside Lawless' home, in which Fox happened across a hornet and tried to kill it before it could sting him.
[47]
The sight of the insect's throbbing stinger brought to mind the image of the
Green Hornet
logo. According to Fox, this happened while the band was still under the moniker of "Sister" and Lawless was looking for a new name. When Fox explained what happened to Lawless, the band's leader liked the idea and ultimately adopted it. Fox's story has been corroborated by former guitarist
Randy Piper
, who while agreeing with him, did acknowledge Lawless as being the one who came up with the idea of the band's name being written as an acronym.
[48]
Band members
[
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]
Current members
- Blackie Lawless
? lead vocals, rhythm guitar, keyboards, percussion
(1982?present)
- Mike Duda ? bass, backing vocals
(1995?present)
- Doug Blair
? lead guitar, backing vocals
(2006?present; touring 1992 and 2001)
- Aquiles Priester
? drums
(2017?present)
Discography
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]
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