Slaughter (band)
Slaughter is an American hard rock band from Las Vegas, Nevada. The band had at the beginning of the 1990s, some hit singles in America and became their first two albums to the last successful hair metal bands before the Grunge wave changed the rock landscape permanently.
History
Slaughter goes in 1989 from the group Vinnie Vincent Invasion, the band of former Kiss guitarist, shows Dana Strum had been a founding member of the band, Mark Slaughter came immediately after the release of the debut album for the group. During the recording of the second album All Systems Go 1988 at the insistence of the record company ( Chrysalis Records ) corrects the image of the group: Mark Slaughter to future conduct the interviews instead of the band 's founder Vinnie Vincent, attention is in favor of a band Images by Vinnie Vincent carried away. After the tour for the second album, the band dissolves on August 26, 1988 Vincent loses his record deal in 1989.
Slaughter and Strum form their own band and get the guitarist and drummer Blas Elias Timothy Kelly to the group, which also receives a record deal with Chrysalis. The acknowledgments in the production notes indicate early support from the record company to the band's formation: The group is grateful for the "three years of support " at Chrysalis Records.
The 1990 released debut album Stick It to Ya is from the state to be a success for the band. Slaughter tour as support for Kiss on their U.S. tour, a European tour as support for Cinderella is canceled because of the war in Iraq. The singles Up All Night and Fly to the Angels placed in the top 40 on the U.S. charts and Slaughter do it with eight videos at # 1 on the MTV charts. Stick It to Ya awarded double platinum. Due to the success the record company released a mini live album called Stick It to Ya Live, which contains five songs.
Their second album, The Wild Life appears in 1992 and lands at number eight on the Billboard charts. Slaughter tour with Ozzy Osbourne by the United States, but the grunge boom changed the musical landscape virtually overnight. So MTV no longer plays the videos of the band and the second album sold thus not as good as the debut. Nevertheless, the band toured in the following years further stoic.
That 's 1995 album Fear No Evil can not build on the success of the old days and only came just as stated in the Billboard 200 Revolution ( 1997) presents the band in a 1960s psychedelic paint and explore new musical paths. This album also flopped. On 5 February 1998 guitarist Tim Kelly died in a traffic accident when he collided with a truck deviator.
The band is at that time in the studio to work on the next album, Back to Reality. The recordings are completed with the backup guitarist Jeff Blando. The end of 1998 to complete Slaughter along with Firehouse, Warrant and Quiet Riot Rock Never Stops tour of the USA. The album is released in 1999.
2001 Slaughter are back on tour and playing with Vince Neil, Ratt and Vixen the Voices of Metal tour. Again Jeff Blando plays guitar. That same year, drummer Blas Elias stands for the Hollywood movie Rockstar ( starring Mark Wahlberg and Jennifer Aniston ) in front of the camera, in which he plays the drummer of the fictional band Blood Pollution. Slaughter get more airplay in 2001 than in the entire previous five years. In the same year they are playing with Whitesnake, Warrant and Winger again on the rock -Never -Stops Tour. In 2004, the band completed another U.S. tour.