Eric griffin murderdolls biography

Murderdolls&#;were an American&#;horror-punk&#;supergroup, founded during in Hollywood, California by the after time Joey Jordison.^[1]&#;The band line-up consisted of core members&#;Wednesday13&#;and&#;Joey Jordison.

Followed by Ben "The Ghoul" Graves, Acey Slade, Eric Griffin and Tripp Eisen for the first album's tour. For the 2nd album's tour only Wednesday and Joey remained as the authentic founding members the others entity replaced by new ones.

To meet the band has only released two albums, the first in the form of&#;Beyond the Valley of the Murderdolls&#;which was released in The band had limited initial success in the Together States, though their album and singles charted well in the United Kingdom and around the same time they picked up a strong following in Japan.

Their second album,&#;Women and Children Last, was released August 31, Wednesday 13 confirmed the bands split in an interview in March Some time during or the trademark and for Murderdolls was bought out by former member Acey Slade.

Characteristics

The sound of the band is made up of their shared influences, which musically are&#;punk rock&#;and as well as from some of the s&#;hard rock&#;acts (such as&#;Kiss&#;and&#;Alice Cooper).

The band also share a massive interest in&#;horror movies, from which they take images and references.

Lyrically, the group most often introduce themselves in a "tongue-in-cheek" manner,^[2]&#;covering topics of&#;necrophilia,&#;grave robbing,&#;cross-dressing, shaving their eyebrows, and wearing makeup, amongst other things.

The Murderdolls are often described as "Mötley Crüe&#;meets&#;the Misfits"^[3]&#;by critics and fans alike.

Biography

Early years

Some^[who?]&#;consider the Murderdolls history to proceed back as far as to a&#;Des Moines, Iowa&#;based band&#;Joey Jordison&#;played in, named The Rejects, which was fronted by vocalist Dizzy X Draztik.

The sound of the band was somewhat comparable to what the Murderdolls would later develop, minus the horror themed lyrics.

The Rejects split up as Jordison's "other band"&#;Slipknot&#;were signed to a major label.

Also a bassist named Ian, who had played in New York based band the Vampire Love Dolls (fronted by&#;Acey Slade&#;who was known as J at the time), played with them live.

Formation,&#;Beyond the Valley of the Murderdolls&#;(–)

Dizzy Draztik introduced Joey Jordison to the melody of the&#;Frankenstein Drag Queens from Planet 13, a&#;horror punk&#;band from&#;Charlotte, North Carolina, fronted by vocalist&#;Wednesday Draztik persuaded the band to invite the Drag Queens frontman to play with the Rejects.

The pair had previously considered bringing Wednesday 13 into the band before Eisen joined. Wednesday joined them on November , where he was brought into the Rejects as a bassist. Tripp Eisen has claimed that he suggested that his friend&#;Acey Slade&#;was brought into the band around this time, but was turned down.

Soon, Wednesday 13 was moved to the frontman position after Dizzy left the band to take care of his ailing mother.

The band changed their name to the Murderdolls and would soon adopt a horror themed approach. In reality, in terms of material used Wednesday 13 became the driving force for it. Most of the tracks on the Murderdolls debut album came from his previous band Frankenstein Drag Queens from Planet 13, which would later introduce a whole fresh audience to the past melody of Wednesday

Wednesday 13, Jordison, and Eisen went into the recording studio to record an album of material.

Which because of the association of Eisen and Jordison's other bands, was to be released on&#;Roadrunner Records. Primarily the recording features Wednesday 13 and Joey Jordison playing all of the instruments and vocals, however Eisen recorded some of the&#;guitar solos&#;on it.

Around this time in late March , Ben Graves and&#;Eric Griffin, two musicians native of&#;Boston, Massachusetts&#;but were living in Hollywood, California at the time joined the Murderdolls.

The band played their first show together as the Murderdolls on July 30, at&#;San Diego's Epicenter club.

An EP was released in early named&#;Right to Endure Violent&#;and featured some tracks from the forthcoming album.

Murderdolls was an American rock band formed in Hollywood, California in [3] Its lineup consisted of core members Wednesday 13 and Joey Jordison while former touring members included Ben Graves, Acey Slade, Eric Griffin and Tripp Eisen.

The full length album soon followed, titled&#;Beyond the Valley of the Murderdolls. The initial unleash featured fifteen tracks; twelve in total had previously been recorded by Wednesday 13 with Frankenstein Drag Queens from Planet 13 and one from an earlier band Maniac Spider Trash, 13 did however write all of the aforementioned tracks himself.

The anthem "Welcome to the Strange" was featured on the soundtrack for the movie&#;Freddy vs.

Jason.

Upon its release the Murderdolls album was promoted to the public as the "other band" of Joey Jordison, the drummer of Slipknot, or a "collaboration" between Jordison and&#;Tripp Eisen. At the period Wednesday 13's importance as tune writer wasn't known by the public.

The lead off unpartnered from the album was titled "Dead in Hollywood", the&#;promotional video&#;featured a guest appearance by&#;Marilyn Manson, who had previously become friends with Jordison and was returning the favour of him earlier appearing in the video for "Tainted Love".

In July Eisen announced he was leaving the band and returning to his main band&#;Static-X&#;as they were due to record a new album at the time.

Eisen's former&#;Dope&#;bandmate&#;Acey Slade&#;was brought in to replace him on guitar.^[4]

Touring (–)

The first tour dates of the&#;Beyond the Valley of the Murderdolls World Tour&#;took the band through parts of the United States including; Los Angeles, Detroit, Chicago and Jordison's native&#;Iowa.

Their first major meet was at the&#;Summer Sonic Festival&#;in&#;Tokyo, Japan&#;during August 18, , two days before their debut album was released. This helped them gain a fan base in Japan.

Following this they played some dates in Europe, including a tour of the United Kingdom with&#;AntiProduct&#;(the lead singer of which, Alex Kane, replaced Griffin on Bass, when he had to return home during the tour)^[5]&#;and Ireland.

At the time the band also co-headlined an international tour with label mates and friends of Jordison's&#;Papa Roach.

Their restless touring continued throughout into , where they played in several major festivals; first, they played at the Australian festival&#;Big Morning Out, going on after&#;Queens of the Stone Age&#;and&#;Foo Fighters&#;headlined the event.

They were received favorably and one reviewer commented on the band's performance as a "mangled, choked and psychotic version of the&#;Sex Pistols."^[6]&#;The other major festival dates during this day were&#;Download Festival&#;and&#;Rock am Ring,&#;Iron Maiden&#;headlined both of the festivals.

[1][2]Special Edition cover ofBeyond the Valley of the Murderdolls

Together, the band recorded a cover version of&#;Billy Idol's "White Wedding".

A promotional video was recorded for it, in which they mocked popstar singing contests such as the&#;Idol series. It was released as a single in the United Kingdom and they even performed it on the premier UK chart show,&#;Top of the Pops.

Mid The Murderdolls co-headlined a tour of England with fellow Roadrunner Records band,Stone Sour, which contained two of Jordison's fellow members of Slipknot.

Murderdolls toured at the conclusion of in support of the single and the re-release of their debut, which included their Billy Idol cover as good as five other bonus tracks and b-sides: "Let's Fuck'", "I Take Drugs", "Crash Crash", "Welcome to the Strange" and "I Love to Say Fuck".

The latter two had previously been recorded by Wednesday 13 with the Frankenstein Drag Queens from Planet The tour went through many European countries including Spain, Italy,&#;Croatia, andScandinavian countries&#;before ending with a four date tour of the UK supported by Englishpsychobilly&#;band&#;Eighties Matchbox B-Line Disaster.

Murderdolls played their last show on January 17, in&#;Corona, California.

After this they went on an indefinite hiatus with Jordison returning to Slipknot. Since the hiatus begun, both Wednesday 13 and Jordison maintained that the band had not split up for good, and that they would return to record a second album together in the future.^[7]&#;Additionally, in a interview, Slade revealed that he would have been happy to reform the Murderdolls by now, but it always proves unfeasible due to other commitments of the band members.^[8]

Reunion &&#;Women & Children Last&#;and break-up (–)

In February , whilst embarking on a solo tour in Australia, Wednesday 13 spoke with&#;Drum Media&#;and told them he was tossing up whether to record another solo album or record another Murderdolls album.

He stated that the idea was still in talks, but would be his number one priority if the opportunity arose.

In March , Jordison officially revealed to&#;Kerrang&#;magazine that Murderdolls had officially reunited with him and Wednesday working with producer Chris "Zeuss" Harris.

Everything is such a product or a fucking formula these days Fuck formula! Fuck the norm!"^[9]

It was revealed on the band's official website that the band would feature a new line-up, without Slade, Griffin or Graves.^[10]&#;Drummer&#;Racci Shay&#;joined the band alongside guitarist Roman Surman and bassist Jack Tankersley.

Mötley Crüe&#;guitarist&#;Mick Mars&#;recorded a guest appearance on the new album, whilst he was recording material for his debut solo album in the similar space.^[11][12]&#;On April 15, the band confirmed that they had finished recording their upcoming album&#;Women & Children Last.

Joey Jordison has said that he considers&#;Women & Children Last&#;as really the first true Murderdolls album.^[13]

The band was expected to embark on a tour of North America, but the idea was scrapped after Jordison began touring with&#;Rob Zombie&#;on the&#;Hellbilly Deluxe 2 World Tour&#;and after the untimely death of his Slipknot bandmate&#;Paul Gray.

The first show was captured on video and was released on DVD for the particular edition of the album. Jordison resumed touring with Zombie in early July.

For&#;Women & Children Last, Jordison and Wednesday 13 confessed to&#;VerdamMnis&#;Magazine that they consider this new release to be their very first album, as this is the first time they "sat down together to scribble songs and the production is a far better than from&#;Beyond the Valley of the Murderdolls.

They also revealed to the magazine that the CD was recorded in a mansion upon the Hollywood Hills, which encouraged them "to create their retain sound with no influence from the outside world", as they were secluded.^[14]

The album was released on August 31, through&#;Roadrunner Records.

The band promoted the album on the&#;Women & Children Last Earth Tour, on which they supported&#;Guns N' Roses&#;on a handful of European dates, performed on the main stage at the UK edition of the&#;Ozzfest, supported&#;Rob Zombie&#;and&#;Alice Cooper&#;on the&#;Halloween Hootenanny Tour&#;(Jordison performed double duty with Zombie and the Murderdolls), and performed on&#;Fuel TV's&#;The Daily Habit.^[15]&#;The band was expected to embark upon a headlining tour of North America in December, followed by a tour of the United Kingdom in January, before returning to Australia for the first hour in 8 years to co-headline the&#;Soundwave Festival.

The band announced that, along with their North America tour,&#;Violent Night, Deadly Night Tour, they were releasing a tune video for the song "Nowhere" from&#;Women & Children Last&#;on November 29, However, On November 29, , it was announced that the&#;Violent Night, Deadly Night Tour&#;was cancelled, due to family issues.^[16]

In March Wednesday 13 announced in an interview that the Murderdolls had split for good in ^{[citation needed]}

Other projects

Band members

Discography

Main article:&#;Murderdolls discography===Studio albums===

The Murderdolls were an American horror punk band founded during in Hollywood, CA, California.

The band line-up consists of Wednesday 13, Joey Jordison, Acey Slade, Eric Griffin and Ben Graves, though the organization are currently on a hiatus.

To date the band has released one album in the develop of Beyond the Valley of the Murderdolls which was released in , the band had limited initial success in the United States, though their album and singles charted well in the United Kingdom and around the same time they picked up a strong following in Japan.

Love at First Fright

The sound of the band is made up of their shared influences, which musically are; punk rock and glam metal, as adequately as from some of the s hard rock and glam rock acts (Such as Embrace and Alice Cooper).

The band also share a large interest in horror movies, from which they take images, and references.

Lyrically the group most often present themselves in a "tongue-in-cheek" manner,[2] covering topics of necrophilia, grave robbing, cross dressing, amongst other things.

This is standard practice for many horror punk bands.

The Murderdolls are often described as "Mötley Crüe meets the Misfits"[3] by critics and fans alike. Their bassist Eric Griffin also bears a considerable resemblance to the Mötley Crüe bassist Nikki Sixx.

Dawn of the Dead

Some consider the Murderdolls history to go back as far as to a Des Moines, Iowa based band Joey Jordison played in, named The Rejects, which was fronted by vocalist Dizzy Draztik.

The sound of the band was somewhat comparable to what the Murderdolls would later develop, minus the horror themed lyrics.

The Rejects split up as Jordison's "other band" Slipknot were signed to a major label.

Also a bassist named Ian, who had played in New York based band the Vampire Love Dolls (fronted by Acey Slade who was known as J at the time), played with them live.

Wednesday 13 brought into project Ironically, Dizzy Draztik introduced Joey Jordison to the music of the Frankenstein Drag Queens From Space body 13, a horror punk band from Charlotte, North Carolina, fronted by vocalist Wednesday Eisen persuaded the band to invite the Drag Queens frontman to engage with the Rejects, the two had previously considered bringing 13 into the band before Eisen joined.

Wednesday joined them on November , where he was brought into the Rejects as a bassist. Tripp Eisen has claimed that he suggested that his friend Acey Slade was brought into the band around this time, but was turned down.

Soon, Wednesday 13 was moved to the frontman position and Draztik was taken out of the project.

The band changed their name to the Murderdolls (which Jordison came up with) and would soon adopt a horror themed approach. In evidence, in terms of material used Wednesday 13 became the driving force for it. Most of the tracks on the Murderdolls debut album came from his previous band Frankenstein Drag Queens From Planet 13, which would later introduce a whole recent audience to the past tune of Wednesday

Beyond the Valley of the Murderdolls 13, Jordison, and Eisen went into the recording studio to document an album of material.

Which because of the association of Eisen and Jordison's other bands, was to be released on Roadrunner Records. Primarily the recording features Wednesday 13 and Joey Jordison playing all of the instruments and vocals, however Eisen recorded some of the guitar solos on it.

Around this period in late March , Ben Graves and Eric Griffin, two musicians native of Boston, Massachusetts but were living in Hollywood, California at the time linked the Murderdolls.

The band played their first show together as the Murderdolls on July 30, at San Diego's Epicenter club.

An EP was released in initial named "Right to Remain Violent" and featured some tracks from the forthcoming album.

The packed length album soon followed, titled; "Beyond the Valley of the Murderdolls", the initial release featured fifteen tracks; twelve in total had previously been recorded by 13 with Frankenstein Drag Queens From Planet 13 and one from an earlier band Maniac Spider Trash, 13 did however write all of the aforementioned tracks himself.

Upon its release the Murderdolls album was promoted to the public as the "other band" of Joey Jordison, the drummer of Slipknot, or a "collaboration" between Jordison and Tripp Eisen.

At the time 13's importance wasn't known by the public, but fans later discovered the history. The lead off single from the album was titled "Dead In Hollywood", the promotional video featured a guest appearance by industrial rocker Marilyn Manson, who had previously turn into friends with Jordison and was returning the favour of him earlier appearing in the video for "Tainted Love".

After only playing two live shows with the Murderdolls, Eisen returned to his main band Static-X as they were due to record a new album at the moment.

A friend of Eisen's Acey Slade was brought in to replace him on guitar.[4]

Dead in Hollywood

The first tour dates took the band through parts of the United States including; Los Angeles, Detroit, Chicago and Jordison's native Iowa.

Their first major date was at the Summer Sonic Festival in Tokyo, Japan during August 18, , two days before their debut album was released. This helped them gain a fan base in Japan.

Following this they played some dates in Europe, including a tour of the United Kingdom with AntiProduct (the lead singer of which, Alex Kane replaced Griffin on Bass, when he had to return home during the tour[5]) and Ireland.

At the time, there were no similar acts combining elements of punk and trashy glam for them to tour with, so the band toured with label mates and friends of Jordison's Papa Roach.

Their restless touring continued throughout into where they played several major festivals, first in Australia they played at the Big Day Out where Murderdolls went on after Queens of the Stone Age and Foo Fighters headlined the event.

The other major festival dates during this time were Download Festival and Rock am Ring, Iron Maiden headlined both of the festivals.

Special Edition cover of "Beyond the Valley"Together the band recorded a cover version of Billy Idol's "White Wedding", a promotional video was recorded for it, in which they mocked popstar singing contests such as the Idol series.

It was released as a single in the United Kingdom and they even performed it on the premier UK chart show; Top of the Pops.

Mid The Murderdolls co-headlined a tour of England with fellow Roadrunner Records band, Stone Sour, which contained two of Jordison's fellow members of Slipknot.

Murderdolls toured at the end of in support of the unpartnered and the re-release of their debut, with six added bonus tracks, as well as their Billy Idol cover, other bonus tracks included; "Let's Fuck", "I Take Drugs", "Crash Crash", "Welcome to the Strange" and "I Love to Say Fuck".

The latter two had previously been recorded by 13 with the Frankenstein Drag Queens From World Their tour in support of this went through many European countries including Spain, Italy, Croatia, and Scandinavian countries before termination with a four date tour of the UK supported by English psychobilly band the Eighties Matchbox B-Line Disaster.

Graverobbing

Murderdolls played their last show on January 17, in Corona, California.

After this they went on an indefinite hiatus with Jordison returning to Slipknot. Since this hiatus begun, both Wednesday 13 and Jordison have maintained that the band have not split up for good, and that they would return to record a second album together in the future.

Slit my wrist

Wednesday 13 recording under the Wednesday 13 name has released several albums and toured extensively, also he resurrected the Frankenstein Drag Queens From Earth 13 for a brief tour, and created and performs as part of outlaw country perform Bourbon Crow.

Ben Graves filled in as drummer on the Japanese tour for the band Dope and has played with AntiProduct and industrial rock execute Nocturne.

Zombies

Wednesday 13 - vocals

Facts:

- Is the Murderdolls lead singer.

- Formerly played bass in the band when they were the Rejects.

- Contributed quite a few songs to the 'Beyond the Valley of the Murderdolls' album from the Frankenstein Drag Queens from Planet 13 days.

- His label is Wednesday 13 because at the time all the rockstars were using numbers as names and on the TV display, The Munsters, they're address was Then Wednesday chose make Wednesay part of his name because of, "That little bitch Wednesday Addams."

- During his Frankenstein Flamboyant Queens days, Wednesday's alter ego was Audrey 3.

Joey Jordison - guitar, backing vocals

Instrument: Guitar

Real Name: Nathan Jonas Jordison

Nicknames: Superball

Age: 39

D.O.B: April 26th,

Resides: Des Moines, Iowa

Marital Status: in a relationship

Previous Jobs: Joey used to perform the midnight shift at a Des Moines gas station.

Previous/Other Bands: Anal Blast, Avanga, The Havenots, Hell Pig and ofcourse Slipknot

Favourite Super Hero: Killjoy from Necrophagia

influences: Black Metal, Hanoi Rocks, Slayer, Faster Pussycat, Morbid Angel, Faith No More, , Kiss, Motley Crue, Deicide, Dark

Facts:

- Joey also plays drums, but prefers guitar.

- On the 'Beyond the Valley of the Murderdolls' album, the drums and guitar parts were recorded by Joey, since they didn't have a drummer/bassist yet.

- Joey is the shortest member of the band.

- Joey is from Des Moines.

- Joey is said to be very talkative.

- Joey started his love in at the age of six, having seen a news report stating that a metal star had bitten the chief off of a bat the night before.

"I immediately mind that Ozzy ruled". Soon after he bought the "Blizzard of Oz" album and the Sickness had started. "It hasn't left me to this day, It was meant to be. It was almost like Ozzy bit the head off a bat to pass the torch way early on, to another sick band."

- Joey is known as the crowdsurfer of the band.

Acey Slade - guitar, backing vocals

Instrument: Guitar

Nicknames: Bones or Mr.

Bones

Age: 39

D.O.B: December 15th,

Resides: NYC

Marital Status: Single i believe

Previous/Other Bands: Vampire Love Dolls, Mannequin (temporarily), and Dope

Influences: NMBC, Jack Skellington, Jane's Addiction, Hanoi Rocks, Emily Strange, Caffeine, Manic Street Preachers, AFI, Slayer, Faster

Facts: Played bass and guitar while in Dope (not at the alike time).

- Originally joined the Murderdolls temporarily as a fill-in for Tripp Eisen.

- Quit Dope in July to join the Murderdolls fulltime.

- Likes the color red.

- Is a huge Nightmare Before Christmas fan.

- Is from Downingtown/West Chester, Pennsylvania.

Eric Griffin - bass, backing vocals

Instrument: Bass

Nicknames: Nikki Nine

Age: 38

D.O.B: February 24th,

Resides: Grew up in Boston, Now Lives in Los Angeles

Marital Status: Has a Girlfriend

Previous/Other Bands: Synical

Influences: Motley Crue, Faster Pussycat, Slayer, Peck, NIN, Iron Maidenetc

Favourite Super Hero: Spider-Man

Facts:

- Eric is from Boston.

- Influences include Marilyn Manson and Nine Inch Nails.

- Also plays guitar.

- Joey and Tripp decided to allow Eric (with Ben) to join the Murderdolls mainly because they looked cool.

- Eric is in the Static-X video for the track, 'Cold' as a vampire.

- Is dressed prefer Axl Rose (from Guns and Roses) in the Alien Ant Farm video, 'Movies'.

- Is in the 'Back to School' Deftones' video as a student.

- Has a cameo in the production, 'Queen of the Damned'.

- He started playing the electric guitar at the age of

Half a year later he fell in love wiv a BC Rich Warlock and worked all summer saving up for it.

eric agreed and told tripp he had a kick ass drummer, Ben from Synical. So tripp taped them both jamming with him to show joey from Slipknot to look at the tape and he knew from there that Eric and Ben would be perfect because of their glam/industrial look and what great musicians they are.

Ben Graves - drums

Instrument: Drums

Nicknames: Ghoul

Age

D.O.B: November 5th,

Resides: Born In Boston, now lives in LA

Marital Status: Single I believe

Previous Jobs: Ben used to work for Next

Previous/Other Bands: Synical

Favourite Super Hero: Blade

Influences: Horror Movies, Marilyn Manson, Guns N Roses, NIN, Orgy, Motley

Facts:

- Plays drums for the Murderdolls.

- Ben is from the Boston area along with Eric Griffin.

- Ben was also in Synical with Eric Griffin.

- Piercings: both ears, left and right side of nose, lip

- Tattoos: 2 purple roses on right shoulder and what apears to be Madusa on his left arm and a tattoo on his left wrist.

- Pets: a black kitten

-Favorite colors: red, black, purple, green

-Favorite drinks: water & Red Bull (before a show) / "Heineken & Heineken" (after a show)

Favorite bands: Mindless Self Indulgence, Marilyn Manson, Orgy, Deadsy, NIN, Colorless Zombie, Coal Chamber

Favorite Movies: Halloween, Strange Days, The Terminator, Pulp Fiction, Blade Runner, Predator

Favorite TV shows: The Munsters, Jackass

3 things Ben likes: horror films, thai food, freaky girls

3 things Ben hates: hangovers, LA traffic, "my cell phone bill"

Former Zombies

Tripp and Joey were the two guys to start up the band of the Murderdolls.

Tripp then quit just before recording as he was to busy with Static X (recording album at alike times), so he could not carry on.

None the less, he was replaced by Acey Slade, who by the way is a kick ass dude, and awesome

Tripp Eisen - Got busted for Kidnapping and Statutory Rape after a meet and greet at Guitar Center in Matthews North Carolina!

His tour bus was later found after the meet and greet and on board they found the 2 girls who voluntarily went with him but were in fact under age and still lived with their parents.

EP

"Right to Remain Violent" - ()

Singles

Title Hang out of Release US Chart Position UK Chart Position

"Dead in Hollywood" #54

"White Wedding" #24