Dog Eat Dog (Band)
Dog Eat Dog is a Founded in 1991, American crossover band from New Jersey, the styles such as hardcore punk, heavy metal and hip -hop combined. They are regarded by many as pioneers of the crossover. Your time innovative, highly designed for party music direction led the mid-1990s led to a boom in the music business. From other bands of the genre, the instrumentation of Dog Eat Dog by the integration of a saxophone is different.
History
The band Dog Eat Dog was founded in 1989 in the context of Mucky Pup, one in New Jersey quite successful crossover band. In the summer of 1989, Dan Nastasi Mucky Pup left and began writing his own songs with Sean Kill Kenny and Dave Neabore. Singer of this new group was soon after John Connor, a former school friend Sean, who at the time already had experience as a front man in several bands. As a drummer was added Brett Austin. Finally, she asked her good friend Kevin Reilly to play the saxophone for the band.
The first performance took place in front of 50 people assembled in the sample space of the band. The music was well received. In particular, the interplay of guitars, vocals and saxophone met with enthusiasm. A while later, Dog Eat Dog began with performances in the clubs of New Jersey and the surrounding area. Experience with live performances they had been by their former bands. Finally, producers and record companies were aware of the group.
Appeared in 1993 with moderate success the Warrant EP. A year later the band All Boro Kings made a breakthrough. With the release of this album, guitarist Dan Nastasi decided to withdraw from family and professional reasons from the band. Temporarily Parris Mayhew took over his position. This was followed by a European tour, where Dog Eat Dog appeared as the opening act for Biohazard. After the tour, Mayhew left the band again. In its place, Marc DeBacker joined the band. A little later, also left drummer Dave Maltby Dog Eat Dog for personal reasons and was replaced by Brandon Finley. In addition, Scott Mueller has been committed as a saxophonist. The largest fan base had dog eat dog in Europe. While they performed in the United States only in smaller clubs, they played concerts in Europe in arena size and were also represented at the festival. The biggest of these was in 1995, the Dynamo Festival in the Netherlands.
In 1996 Play Games, which remained in the sales figures behind its predecessors. For this album, Dog Eat Dog worked together with Ronnie James Dio ( "Games " ) and RZA from Wu -Tang Clan ( " Step Right In"). An extensive tour concluded at the release of the album with appearances at festivals such as Roskilde and PinkPop.
In summer 1999, the album Amped, which was the expectations of the fans not just appeared. The majority said that the band's sound had changed too much and they were going too much commercial way. Amped is only in Europe, but not published in the U.S., which was the main trigger for Dog Eat Dog parted from her former record label Roadrunner Records. A year later published Roadrunner Records In The Dog House: The Best And The Rest, which consisted mostly of remixed versions of old tracks. Dog Eat Dog distanced themselves from this album, as they were no longer at the time of release on Roadrunner under contract and thus had had no say in the material.
Since 2000, Dog Eat Dog toured mostly by European clubs and gathered new material for a comeback. In 2003 she found with Vibra a new management and thus came into contact with Claus Grabke. With him, they worked on songs like "MILF ", " Hell Yeah ," " Cannonball" and " Undivided " for her new album. In the latter sings Marta Jandová Die Happy as a guest singer. While working on Walk With Me Universal brought in 2005 the live DVD Dog Eat Dog - Live at Dynamo with the legendary performance from 1995 at the Dynamo festival on the market. On 26 May 2006, the latest Dog -eat -Dog studio album Walk with Me was released. In the same year it was announced that founding member Sean Kilkenny has left the band for personal reasons. Temporarily took Roger Haemmerli of the Swiss band Henchman his part until Matt Salem a substitute for Kilkenny was found in May 2006. In April 2007 he left Dog Eat Dog surprising. His place was taken by the Thumb guitarist Axel " AXE " Hilgenstöhler. The next few years the band spent a lot of time with various tours across the globe. They played at big festivals before about 20,000 people, but also in many small clubs with just 200 spectators. 2009 came the " 15th anniversary of All Boro Kings " tour, which guitarist Roger Haemmerli again came back to the band and Axel Hilgenstöhler replaced for all concerts. In the following spring Dog Eat Dog started their tour to the 20 - year anniversary. Also, this tour led them back over several concerts in the United States to Europe, where dog eat dog can be seen at various festivals and club gigs.
Band Members
Former band members:
- Dan Nastasi - Guitar
- Sean Kilkenny - Guitar
- Dave Maltby - drums
- Marc DeBacker - Guitar
- Mark Marri - drums
- Brett Austin - drums
Short-term band members:
- John Milnes - Drums
- Parris Mayhew - Guitar
- Roger Haemmerli - Guitar
- Matt Salem - Guitar
- Nils Berger - drums
- Kris Kohler - Bass