Voodoo Glow Skulls

Voodoo Glow Skulls are a company established in 1988 in Riverside, California U.S. Skacore band and count with bands like Operation Ivy or The Mighty Mighty Bosstones of the founders of this crossover style.

Band History

The three Casillas brothers founded in 1988 together with her longtime friend Jerry O'Neill of the third wave ska band assigned. In its early years, the Voodoo Glow Skulls occurred particularly on a smaller scale and in backyards.

In 1991 they made ​​their first nationwide tour and were allowed to occur as a headliner and as support for groups like The Offspring and No Doubt.

First, they signed a contract with the label Dr. Strange Records, then at Epitaph. The sixth and seventh album they released on Victory Records.

Some of their current seven albums since 1993, took the seven -member group in their own studio, the Dog Run Studios. On every album the band released on at least a ska cover version of a well-known songs. On the penultimate album " Adicción, Tradición, y Revolución " (2004), for example, a ska version of the Guns N 'Roses classic Used To Love Her included.

Style of music and texts

Her style was significantly influenced by U.S. punk, but also of ska bands like Hepcat, or thrash metal band Slayer. Accordingly, the band plays very fast ska, the often - is dominated by guitar shrieks and guttural growls - despite the hectic aufspielenden brass section. They describe their music as California Street Music.

Their lyrics are in both English and Spanish, they recorded the album " Firme " again completely in Spanish on. The content of the texts that are written by Frank and Eddie Casillas, ranging from silly love songs to political and socially critical statements.

Band Instrumentation

• Frank Casillas - Vocals
• Eddie Casillas - Guitar
• Jorge Casillas - Bass
• Jerry O'Neill - drums
• Brodie Johnson - trumpet and trombone
• James Hernandez - Saxophone

Discography

Studio albums

Compilations

• 2004: Holmes Movies