Dan Lilker

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Dan Lilker
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Lilker in 2015
Background information
Birth nameDaniel Adam Lilker [1]
Born (1964-10-18) October 18, 1964 (age 60)
New York City, U.S.
Genres
OccupationsMusician
InstrumentsBass guitar, guitar, drums, piano, vocals
Years active1981–present
Member of
Formerly of

Daniel Adam Lilker (born October 18, 1964) is an American musician best known as a bass player, but also guitarist, pianist, drummer, and vocalist. He has played bass in numerous heavy metal bands, including Anthrax, Nuclear Assault, S.O.D. and Holy Moses, and grindcore bands Brutal Truth and Exit-13.

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Biography

Lilker was the bassist for the thrash metal band Nuclear Assault and was a founding member of Anthrax with Scott Ian. Lilker was then playing rhythm guitar and recorded bass guitar and co-wrote on their first album, Fistful of Metal (1984). Not long after the release of that album, he was dismissed from Anthrax and replaced on bass by one of the band's roadies Frank Bello. Despite this, Lilker has remained close to the band, receiving a co-writing credit for at least one song on their next two albums, Spreading the Disease (1985) and Among the Living (1987), and he was offered to fill in for Bello on their spring 2024 tour dates. [2] [3]

In addition to Anthrax and Nuclear Assault, Lilker has played bass in grindcore band Brutal Truth and crossover band Stormtroopers of Death with Scott Ian and Charlie Benante (from Anthrax), and Billy Milano (Anthrax roadie, M.O.D. singer). He has also played bass with Exit-13, Malformed Earthborn, [4] The Ravenous, Overlord Exterminator, [5] Venomous Concept, Crucifist, [6] Nokturnal Hellstorm, [7] Nunfuckritual [8] and Extra Hot Sauce. [9]

During his tenure with Anthrax, Lilker played bass by fingerpicking, but since forming Nuclear Assault, he has mostly been using a pick.

Lilker played on Holy Moses' 1994 No Matter What's the Cause . [10] He is known for his fast, guitar-like riffing through heavy distortion. Lilker has been a columnist with Zero Tolerance Magazine since the publication's inception in 2005. In 2009, it was reported that Chicago journalist Dave Hofer was writing a biography of Lilker. [11]

Lilker formed United Forces with Stormtroopers of Death bandmate Billy Milano as their singer in 2012. [12]

In January 2014, Lilker announced his plans to retire from being a full-time recording and touring musician. [13] He also announced that Brutal Truth would break up on his 50th birthday. [14] However, Lilker remained a member of Nuclear Assault, who released new material in 2015 for the EP Pounder , and had continued performing live sporadically until their breakup in 2022. [15] [16] [17] [18]

Discography

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Lilker in 2007

Extra Hot Sauce

Date of releaseTitleLabel
1989Taco of DeathPeaceville Records

Nuclear Assault

Date of releaseTitleLabelUS sales
1986Brain Death (EP) Combat Records / Under One Flag5,000
March 10, 1986 Game Over Combat Records / Under One Flag90,000
1987 The Plague (EP)Combat Records / Under One Flag80,000
1988Fight to Be Free (EP)Relativity / Under One Flag15,000
1988Good Times, Bad Times (EP)Under One Flag10,000
June 13, 1988 Survive Combat Records / Under One Flag100,000
November 23, 1989 Handle with Care Relativity / Under One Flag500,000
1989 Handle with Care European Tour '89 100,000
September 10, 1991 Out of Order Relativity / Under One Flag40,000
1991 Radiation Sickness 50,000
May 19, 1992 Live at the Hammersmith Odeon Relativity Records / Roadrunner 150,000
July 1, 2003 Alive Again Screaming Ferret / Steamhammer 45,000
August 29, 2005 Third World Genocide Screaming Ferret Wreckords50,000
2015 Pounder (EP)Sidipus, Dry Heave

Brutal Truth

Date of releaseTitleLabelUS sales
October 6, 1992 Extreme Conditions Demand Extreme Responses Earache Records40,000
October 25, 1994 Need to Control Earache Records30,000
October 1, 1996 Kill Trend Suicide (EP)Relapse Records20,000
September 23, 1997 Sounds of the Animal Kingdom Relapse Records40,000
2000For Drug Crazed Grindfreaks Only!Solardisk5,000
April 20, 2009 Evolution Through Revolution Relapse Records20,000
September 27, 2011 End Time Relapse Records

Anthrax

Date of releaseTitleLabelUS sales
January 1984 Fistful of Metal Megaforce Records150,000
1992 Armed and Dangerous (reissue)Megaforce Records

Stormtroopers of Death

Date of releaseTitleLabelUS sales
December 1985 Speak English or Die Megaforce Records100,000
1992 Live at Budokan Megaforce Records100,000
May 18, 1999 Bigger than the Devil Nuclear Blast Records50,000
1999Seasoning the Obese: 7" split with Yellow Machinegun Rotten Orange/Howling Bull75,000
August 21, 2007 Rise of the Infidels Megaforce Records20,000

The Ravenous

Date of releaseTitleLabelUS sales
August 29, 2000Assembled in BlasphemyHammerheart50,000
2002Three on a Meathook (EP)Red Stream10,000
February 24, 2004Blood DeliriumRed Stream10,000

Venomous Concept

Date of releaseTitleLabel
2008Poisoned AppleCentury Media

Holy Moses

Date of releaseTitleLabel
1994 No Matter What's the Cause SPV/Steamhammer

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