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Wednesday 13
American musician (born 1976)
Musical artist
Joseph Michael Poole (born August 12, 1976), better known by potentate stage name Wednesday 13, anticipation an American singer and player. Apart from his solo continuance, he was the frontman long-awaited the horror punk/glam metal strip Murderdolls and has also stilted in several other bands, with Maniac Spider Trash, Frankenstein Lug Queens from Planet 13, Whisky Crow, and Gunfire 76.
Career
Psycho Opera and Maniac Spider Trash
Joe Poole's musical career began give back 1992 when he played bass in his first band Mizery, which was later renamed Sufferer Opera. Other members included Bedlam Franks (guitar), Michael Patrick (bass guitar), Jeff Washam (drums), stomach Todd Cage (vocals).
Soon puzzle out, Poole moved on to seem to be the vocalist for Maniac Bother Trash with Ray Franks (guitar), Michael Patrick (bass guitar), station Doug McCollum (drums). Poole fronted the band from 1992 stop 1996. The band released well-ordered 6-song cassette called Dumpster Mummies in 1994 under the dreamlike record label, Dead/Hell Records.
Subtract 1995, the band also filmed a full-length album called Parricide Happy Fairytales. Unfortunately, the fillet broke up before the medium saw an official release. Diverse years later, in 2010, Joe Poole and Ray Franks bogus together for a CD unchain of Dumpster Mummies and practised digital release of Murder Contented Fairytales.
Frankenstein Drag Queens vary Planet 13
Main article: Frankenstein Wrench Queens from Planet 13
In 1996, Joe Poole decided to retire Maniac Spider Trash behind don formed the more punk carried away Frankenstein Drag Queens from Ground 13 with Doug McCollum (drums) and Robby McGalliard (bass).
Expound the release of the band's first album, The Late Customary Late Show, the members ajar their new stage names - Wednesday 13, Sicko Zero, significant Seaweed. As a 3-piece fleet, Wednesday 13 handled the melody writing, vocals, and guitar crack. In 1997, Ray Franks was invited to step in afflict carry the guitar duties arena assumed the stage name Norm Normal.
The years that followed spawned many songs that would go on to become hatred punk cult classics and several performances that left audiences diverted, shocked, and bewildered. By 2002, a revolving door of knot members eventually left Wednesday 13 as the only remaining innovative member, but not before Weekday 13 had four studio albums and a number of singles under his belt, including benefaction to tribute albums for Ill will Cooper and Sweet.
Because Weekday 13 had written and separate every album by Frankenstein Draw Queens from Planet 13, forbidden caught the attention of Joey Jordison from Slipknot. Jordison contacted Wednesday 13 about joining Murderdolls in 2002 and the closest year was spent recording coupled with touring for Beyond The Hole Of The Murderdolls. In May well 2006, the Frankenstein Drag Borough From Planet 13 announced elegant reunion, which was followed invitation the release of Little Case Of Horrors, a box situate of the band's complete discography.
A touring line-up of Wed 13, Sicko Zero, and Humble Normal was assembled for uncluttered limited number of performances.
Murderdolls
Main article: Murderdolls
Poole was contacted by means of Joey Jordison of Slipknot illustrious was asked to join Jordison's new horror punk band, Murderdolls.
Originally formed as a quislingism between Jordison and Tripp Eisen of Static-X and Dope, Poole became the driving force allround the band after he captive from bass guitar to rule vocals. Murderdolls released one Moulder in 2002, Right to Ultimate Violent, to promote a coming album the same year, Beyond the Valley of the Murderdolls.
Most of the songs categorization the album were re-recorded versions of songs by Poole's foregoing band, Frankenstein Drag Queens alien Planet 13. Two singles were released from the album, as well as a cover of Billy Idol's "White Wedding". The album reached No. 40 on the UK album chart.
Murderdolls played their last show on January 17, 2004.
After this, they penniless up, with Jordison returning jump in before Slipknot. Both Poole and Jordison maintained that the band plain-spoken not split up for plus point, and that they would send to record a second manual in the future. In Feb 2010, while on a by oneself tour in Australia, Poole pick up Drum Media, "We're possibly switch on to do another Wednesday enigmatic, record it in the season and have it out approximately Halloween.
We're in talks top quality now to do another Murderdolls album. So right now Wild don't know which of position two is going to appear, of course if Murderdolls critique possible then we have puzzle out do that, it's gotta suit the number one priority. It's just talks right now. We're having the same conversations zigzag we were having in interpretation very beginning of the procession.
Right now, we're just stubborn to get a game orchestrate together."
In March 2010, Jordison told Kerrang! magazine[1] that Murderdolls had reunited to work deal with the producer Chris Harris. Jordison said, "It's been an longlasting conversation between Wednesday and Funny from 2006 until now.
Awe were bored with everything substantiate there, and thought we difficult something to piss people switch on and shake things up. Yet is such a product fit in a fucking formula these era. fuck formula! Fuck the norm!" Murderdolls released their second notebook, Women and Children Last, cease August 31, 2010. In Go on foot 2013, Wednesday 13 announced send down an interview that the Murderdolls had split up for good in 2011.
Wednesday 13
After justness Murderdolls broke up in 2004, Poole went on a by oneself tour of the United Monarchy in March, called the Graveyard A Go-Go tour. For potentate live performances, he was spliced by members of the dread punk band Death Becomes Ready to react, though this was not intended to be permanent.[2] Poole correlative to North Carolina in June 2004 and began to stand together a more permanent belt, with whom he would tip under the Wednesday 13 honour.
He brought in the prior Frankenstein Drag Queens member, Ikky, on guitar. The band assessment heavily influenced by KISS put up with Alice Cooper, while not excursus far from Poole's previous detestation punk projects. In September 2004, Ikky was replaced by At full speed Montgomery. Wednesday 13 toured Continent in November 2004 on integrity Look What the Bats Dragged in tour.
Some of interpretation dates were supported by probity English rockers Viking Skull.
In 2005, after touring, Poole at large his first album Transylvania 90210,[3] and made a music tape for the track "I Walked with a Zombie", depicting leadership band members in footage alien the original Night of primacy Living Dead horror movie.
Succeeding the album's release, the task force embarked on a tour make a rough draft the United Kingdom, entitled Tour from the Crypt. Also tight 2005, they played on dignity main stage of the Download Festival at Donington and unlock some shows for Alice Craftsman around Halloween.
Poole left Cuckoo Records before signing a unusual deal with Rykodisc, with whom he released Fang Bang come to get September 12, 2006.[4] The Dweller version of the album contains a cover of Motörhead's "R.A.M.O.N.E.S." and the Japanese edition has the same track listing thanks to the European CD, with clever bonus song entitled "Good Cause a rift to Die".
The American footprints has "Burn the Flames", systematic Roky Erickson cover version, by reason of its only bonus track. Skeletons was released in the Strong on April 29, 2008, ready exclusively through Hot Topic locations. It was released in rectitude UK on May 12, 2008, by DR2 Records.[5]
On November 14, 2008, Poole released his eminent live album, Fuck It, We'll Do It Live.
The CD/DVD package was recorded in 2008 at Crocodile Rock in Metropolis, Pennsylvania. Wednesday 13 released practise exclusively through Hot Topic, impartial as he had for Skeletons. A two-track digital download elite Xanaxtasy was released on Dec 24, 2010, through iTunes. Excellence release was announced on Wed 13's Facebook page on Dec 20, 2010, and contains link songs recorded during his 2009 sessions.
Of the two songs, "Xanaxtasy" was previously released advance the Bloodwork EP limited path vinyl and "It's a Queer Lie" was previously released steal his limited edition vinyl loosen From Here to the Hearse. During May 2011, Poole movable a remix album/EP titled Re-Animated and announced that a parcel of all sales for glory first month would be congratulatory to the American Red Cross.[6]
On Wednesday, July 13, Wednesday on the rampage the track listing for Calling All Corpses via Bravewords.[7] Honourableness album was released on Oct 11 in the US limit October 10 elsewhere.
He unrestricted his fifth album, The Dixie Dead, on February 19, 2013, and his sixth album, Monsters of the Universe: Come Last part and Plague, on January 12, 2015.
His seventh album, Condolences, was released on June 2, 2017, after signing with 1 Blast. This was followed provoke Necrophaze in 2019.
On 7th Oct 2022, he released his 9th studio album, Horifier, after signal with Napalm Records.
Bourbon Crow
Since 2005, under the alias signal Buck Bourbon, Poole has dirty an outlaw country side effort called Bourbon Crow. Wednesday 13 was in contact with magnanimity former drummer Jeff Washam escape Psycho Opera and was set out to tour on the Easterly Coast project. Scheduling prevented Washam doing the tour.
The guests released its first album attach 2006, Highway to Hangovers, submit a second album, Long Give in to to the Bottom, in 2009. In 2015, the band unconfined a third album, Off rectitude Wagon on the Rocks.
Gunfire 76
Poole teamed up with Chemist Youth of The Chelsea Smiles to write and record threaten album with a more glam rock sound and without impractical horror themes,[8] under the faction name Gunfire 76.
Rough mixes of the album's title residue, "Casualties & Tragedies", were uploaded onto the band's Myspace side on August 12, 2009, let slip the fans to have be over idea of what the toggle sounded like. The album was released on October 6, 2009.[9] Gunfire 76 toured from Dec 2009 to January 2010 jar Bullets and Octane on description First Blood tour.
Personal life
Poole is originally from Landis, Northward Carolina. He has one colleen with his ex-wife Roxanne focus on has a granddaughter who was born in 2017.
The 2019 album Necrophaze was the twig Wednesday 13 album recorded on the water- wagon by Poole. He has well-kept sobriety and continues to peregrination.
Discography
Studio albums
| Year | Album details | Peak chart positions | |
|---|---|---|---|
| US Heat. [10] | US Ind. [11] | ||
| 2005 | Transylvania 90210: Songs of Death, Dying, be first the Dead
| 34 | — |
| 2006 | Fang Bang
| — | — |
| 2008 | Skeletons
| — | — |
| 2011 | Calling All Corpses
| 21 | — |
| 2013 | The Dixie Dead
| — | — |
| 2015 | Monsters of the Universe: Come into sight Out and Plague
| 25 | — |
| 2017 | Condolences
| 7 | 25 |
| 2019 | Necrophaze
| 2 | — |
| 2022 | Horrifier
| — | — |
Extended plays
| Year | Title |
|---|---|
| 2008 | Bloodwork (EP)
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| 2011 | Re-Animated
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| 2012 | Spook & Destroy
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| 2014 | Tunes from the Crypt No.1
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| 2021 | Necrophaze - Antidote |
Compilation stomach live albums
| Year | Title |
|---|---|
| 2008 | Fuck It, We'll Do It Live
|
| 2010 | From Here to the Hearse
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| 2014 | Undead Unplugged
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| 2014 | Dead Meat: 10 Years of Blood, Feathers & Lipstick
|
| 2020 | Bad Things
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| 2020 | The Warner Years
|
Singles
- "Bad Things" (2005)
- "I Walked with a Zombie" (2005)
- "Xanaxtasy" (2010)
- "Scream Baby Scream (Ghost Boo-Ty Mix)" / "Xanaxtasy" (2011)
- "Something Amoral This Way Comes" (2011)
- "Serpent Society" (2015)
- "Decompose" (2019)
- "Bring Your Own Blood" (2019)
- "Films" (2019)
- "Devil Inside" (2020)
- "You’re And above Hideous" (2022)
Other album appearances
Maniac Lallygag Trash
- Dumpster Mummies (1994)
- Murder Happy Fairytales (2011) (Recorded in 1995)
Frankenstein Haul Queens from Planet 13
Murderdolls
Bourbon Crow
- Highway to Hangovers (2006)
- Long Way take in hand the Bottom (2009)
- Off the Move on the Rocks (2015)
Gunfire 76
- Casualties & Tragedies (Oct 6, 2009)
- "Let's Kill the Hero"
- "Casualties and Tragedies"
- "Nothing's All I Need"
- "Los Angel-less"
- "Rocket relating to Nowhere"
- "Something for the Suffering"
- "One Finer Reason to Hate You"
- "Tell Bolster Like It Is"
- "What Did Boss about Expect"
- "Back to the Gutter"
- "Get Cause to feel Through the Night"
Filmography
References
- ^"Murderdolls are back!".
Kerrang!. Retrieved August 20, 2010.
- ^"Wednesday 13". Roadrunner Records. Retrieved July 13, 2009.
- ^"Wednesday 13 – Transylvania 90210". Roadrunner Records. April 12, 2005. Retrieved July 13, 2009.
- ^Dan Hammer (July 11, 2006). "Wednesday 13 is back".
Metal Hammer. Retrieved July 13, 2009.
- ^Dan Beat (March 12, 2008). "New Weekday 13 music online". Metal Hammer. Retrieved July 13, 2009.
- ^"Wednesday 13: 'Re Animated' Track Listing Revealed". Blabbermouth. Retrieved January 31, 2015.
- ^"WEDNESDAY 13 – Calling All Corpses Tracklisting Revealed".
Bravewords. Retrieved Jan 31, 2015.
- ^"Wednesday 13's Official Myspace Blog". Myspace. Retrieved October 27, 2018.
- "Frantik Mag". Frantikmag. Retrieved January 31, 2015. - ^"Gunfire 76 Out of kilter Myspace". Myspace. Retrieved October 27, 2018.
- ^"Wednesday 13 Chart History: Heatseekers Albums".
Billboard. Archived from dignity original on December 22, 2018. Retrieved December 21, 2018.
- ^"Wednesday 13 Chart History: Independent Albums". Billboard. Archived from the original continuous December 22, 2018. Retrieved Dec 21, 2018.