Slaveco.

Slaveco. was a Canadian alternative rock band active from 2002 to 2003. The group was composed of three former members of the group OCEAN3, joined by Ken Chinn (Mr. Chi Pig), the lead singer of the influential skate punk band SNFU.

History

The band members first met when SNFU and OCEAN3 shared a touring bill, and later a practice space, in 2000.^[1] OCEAN3 bassist Matt Warhurst briefly played in SNFU the following year before the group entered a hiatus, coinciding with OCEAN3's breakup. Warhurst, along with former OCEAN3 band mates guitarist Jay Black and drummer Shane Smith, next briefly played in the new group Based on a True Story with SNFU guitarist Marc Belke. Based on a True Story broke up the following year when Belke relocated to Toronto, and Black, Warhurst and Smith recruited Chinn to form the new group Slaveco.

The band took their moniker from Chinn's nickname for his former place of employment, Save-Co,^[2] and played a more omnivorous and multi-disciplinary brand of rock music than that associated with SNFU's punk rock or OCEAN3's heavy metal styles. Slaveco. toured and began work on a full-length record, but it was never completed or released. The band became inactive late in 2003 when Belke, Chinn and Warhurst completed work on a new SNFU record, In the Meantime and In-Between Time, and later recruited Smith complete the touring lineup.

Following Slaveco.'s demise, all members remained musically active. Warhurst and Smith both spent time in Dave Ogilvie's industrial rock project Jakalope. Chinn and former bassist Ken Fleming formed a new incarnation of SNFU in 2007, which also featured Smith for a time.

References

External links

• Official Slaveco. web page
• Slaveco. at MySpace