Kill Cheerleader

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Kill Cheerleader
Kill Cheerleadër (photo ca. 2003)
Background information
Origin	Toronto, Ontario Canada
Genre(s)	Metal Thrash Punk
Years active	1999 – 2004
Label(s)	Spinerazor Records Sonico Records Corporate Punishment Records
Members
Chad MacKinnon Jason Decay Zach Slaughter Kriss Rites Ethan Deth

Kill Cheerleader is a metal/thrash/punk band whose teenage members formed in 1999 in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. Mainly influenced by punk and heavy metal acts such as The Stooges, early era Guns N' Roses, and Iron Maiden they had crafted their own unique, sleazy style of punk-metal-garage-noise.

1 Biography
2 Past members
3 Discography
4 References
5 External links

[edit] Biography

The original members of the group were childhood friends who learned their instruments by playing the album Funhouse by The Stooges. They started off playing shows in Toronto but were soon banned from clubs for their on and off stage antics.^[1]

After some 8000 demo CDs were sold, a German record label licensed one of their unmixed/unmastered recordings and released it as 'Gutter Days.' One reviewer called it "the greatest punk n' roll recording ever made... completely redefined excellence in that genre... I am shaken..." (House of Smut). Ky Anto, lead guitarist for Robin Black once called them "The sound of desperation"... Nikki Sixx of Mötley Crüe called them the "best new band" in his online journal... SPIN Magazine journalists wrote how they were "blown away" about their live show, and Alternative Press has called them a "band to watch." Rock legend Lemmy from Motörhead invited them to open their UK tour ^[2] and talked about them on SuicideGirls.com and in Playboy, declaring Kill Cheerleadër as the "greatest rock n' roll band since Guns N' Roses."

After traveling to the U.S west coast and playing a number of high-profile shows in Los Angeles, the band gained a new following for their destructive and fresh take on dirty punk-metal. They fell apart in 2004 due to problems with their drug addicted members and one of their core members(Ethan)leaving punk-metal behind for a new band which was experimenting with electronics and chip-bending.