Brides of Destruction
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Brides of Destruction is a hard rock supergroup containing Nikki Sixx of Mötley Crüe and Tracii Guns of L.A. Guns amongst others. Its debut album Here Come the Brides reached the top 100 of the US album charts and launched a headlining tour of the US in April 2004. Sixx left the band to rejoin Mötley Crüe in January 2005 for a reunion tour supporting a greatest hits compilation.
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[edit] Band history
Brides of Destruction formed in 2002 in Los Angeles. Its founding members were Sixx on bass, Guns on guitar, Kris Kohls of Adema on drums, Adam Hamilton on keyboards and neophyte singer London LeGrand. LeGrand impressed in his audition and secured the job as vocalist by impressing his bandmates in a gig opening for Mudvayne and Taproot. The band was initially known as "Cockstar" but radio programmers advised that they wouldn't be able to announce the name on air. For a brief period afterwards, the band adopted the moniker Motordog, but dropped it shortly after for the final name, Brides of Destruction. A friend suggested the name to Nikki Sixx in an instant message and the band liked it.
Hamilton soon left the band and was replaced by John Corabi who had briefly worked with Mötley Crüe in the 1990's. The band initially recorded some demos. However Kohls left in November 2002 and Scot Coogan was recruited as the drummer. They recorded some more songs and played two gigs in December 2002 while being support acts for major nu metal acts Mudvayne, Taproot, and Depswa. John Corabi left in March 2003 and the band was on hold for a few months while members pursued they were in discussions with many record labels.
The band eventually signed with Sanctuary Records and recorded its debut album Here Come the Brides for release in the US spring. It made the top 100 of the Billboard album charts in 2004. However, the band chose "Shut the Fuck Up" as its first single as a protest against politicians discussing the war against terror. Despite the fact that the track was edited for radio, the song did not receive as much airplay as the band would have liked and the track failed to chart.
Here Come the Brides also contains "Only Get So Far", a ballad originally written by Sixx for Tim McGraw and Faith Hill. On its website (which truly doesn't exist anymore, and it did have a video of "Shut the Fuck Up" by the way, and sorry to say, I'm afaid you may have missed it.) the band nominated "I Don't Care", "Brace Yourself", "I Got A Gun", "Life" and "Natural Born Killers" as highlights.
The lineup of the band changed again when Sixx left the band to rejoin Mötley Crüe for its reunion tour in 2005. Ginger from The Wildhearts joined the band as the second guitarist and Scott Sorry of Amen joined on bass. The new lineup of Brides of Destruction commenced writing songs for their follow up, Runaway Brides. In late 2005 while Brides of Destruction were touring Britain and Europe in 2005 Scott Sorry was no longer in the band. The band chose to use Jeremy Guns as the bass player for these shows along with the support act Red Star Rebels bass player for many of these shows. Jeremy worked as guitar and bass tech for Brides of Destruction and was doing this before Sorry left.
Tracii Guns also recently announced that the Brides of Destruction are on hold for at least a year as he goes to join Quiet Riot on lead guitar eventhough his member only lasted one month. According to Guns, the future of the Brides is still unknown. Guns has since formed his own solo band.
[edit] Band members
[edit] Current lineup
- Tracii Guns (guitar and Vocals) 2002-
- London LeGrand (vocalist) 2002-
- Scot Coogan (drums and vocals) 2002-
- Jeremy Guns (Bass) 2005
[edit] Former members
- Nikki Sixx (bass) 2002-2004
- Adam Hamilton (keyboards) 2002
- Kris Kohls (drums) 2002
- John Corabi (guitar) 2002-2003
- Ginger (guitar) 2005
- Scott Sorry (bass) 2005
[edit] Discography
- "Here Come the Brides" 2004
- "Runaway Brides" 2005
| Mötley Crüe |
| Vince Neil | Mick Mars | Nikki Sixx | Tommy Lee |
| John Corabi | Randy Castillo | Samantha Maloney | Greg Leon | O'Dean | Robin |
| Discography |
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| Studio Albums: Too Fast for Love | Shout at the Devil | Theatre of Pain | Girls, Girls, Girls | Dr. Feelgood | Mötley Crüe | Generation Swine | New Tattoo |
| Compilations and EPs: Decade of Decadence | Quaternary | Greatest Hits | Supersonic and Demonic Relics | Loud as F*@k | Red, White and Crüe |
| Live albums: Live: Entertainment or Death | Carnival of Sins Live |
| Related articles |
| Brides of Destruction | Methods Of Mayhem |
