Kevorkian Death Cycle

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Kevorkian Death Cycle
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Live at Das Bunker, 2012-10-10
Background information
Origin Riverside, California, United States
Genres electro-industrial
industrial rock
Years active1996–present
Labels
Members
  • Ryan Gribbin
  • Roger Jarvis
  • Rob Robinson
  • Greg Ripes
  • Mike J
  • Sean Whiteman
Past members
  • Brett Cardamone
  • Travers Bell
  • Ryan Daily
  • Jason Todrick
Website Official site

Kevorkian Death Cycle is an American electro-industrial band from Riverside, California founded by Ryan Gribbin and Roger Jarvis. [1] The band was originally named Grid and later changed their name to the politically motivated "Kevorkian Death Cycle". [2] [3] [4]

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Career

The band's first demo, Distorted Noise Arrythmia, was released under the name Grid in 1992. The duo then released two more demos as Kevorkian Death Cycle before being signed to Ras Dva. The band's name was often assumed to be for shock value, but the band has been adamant in their support of right to die by physician-assisted suicide, and, by extension, critics of organized religion for being against it. [5]

The band released its first album, Collection for Injection, on the Ras Dva label. After a 1997 tour with Spahn Ranch, they became popular with the underground community. The band moved to the Metropolis label in 1998 and in the fall released their second album Dark Skies. They later played with Front 242 and went on tour with Front Line Assembly.

In 1999, they released their third album, A+0(M). This album contained a cover of Frankie Goes to Hollywood's "Relax". The album peaked at #7 on the CMJ RPM Charts in the U.S. [6] That year the band also went on their two-month "Free Jack" tour of North America. ("Jack" here refers to Jack Kevorkian.)

Collection for Injection was re-issued in 2000, and a re-mix single of their cover of "Relax" was released in 2001.

As a side project, in the spring of 2006, Roger Jarvis joined Taury Goforth from Dead Hand Projekt to form an Industrial/EBM/IDM band called HexRx.

KDC returned in 2013 with three out of the original four members with a series of releases including a new album, God Am I, and its single "Mind Decay". [1]

Discography

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References

  1. 1 2 "Kevorkian Death Cycle returns with 'Mind Decay' single and 'God Am I' LP". Side-Line. 23 July 2013.
  2. ↑ "Kevorkian Death Cycle". Discogs . Retrieved 2021-01-27.
  3. ↑ "Kevorkian Death Cycle". MusicBrainz . Retrieved 2021-01-27.
  4. ↑ "Kevorkian Death Cycle". AllMusic . Retrieved 2021-01-27.
  5. ↑ Finney, Josh (Spring 1995). Valerio, Paul (ed.). "Kevorkian Death Cycle". Industrialnation . Iowa City, IA: Moon Mystique. 1 (10): 93. ISSN   1062-449X.
  6. ↑ Comer, M. Tye (22 November 1999). "RPM" (PDF). CMJ New Music Report. Great Neck, NY: College Media, Inc. 60 (644): 26. ISSN   0890-0795 . Retrieved 11 January 2022.
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