Kevorkian Death Cycle is an American
electro-industrial
Electro-industrial is a music genre that emerged from industrial music in the early 1980s. While EBM (electronic body music) has a minimal structure and clean production, electro-industrial tends to have a grittier, complex and layered sound ...
band from
Riverside, California
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, founded by Ryan Gribbin and Roger Jarvis.
The band was originally named Grid and later changed their name to the politically motivated "Kevorkian Death Cycle".
Career
The band's first demo, ''Distorted Noise Arrythmia'', was released under the name Grid in 1992, a name that roots back to the term Gay Related Immune Deficiency (or
GRID) which is what the AIDS virus was first dubbed in 1982.
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.
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
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A big city b ...
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
Front Line Assembly (FLA) is a Canadian electro-industrial band formed by Bill Leeb in 1986 in music, 1986 after leaving Skinny Puppy. FLA has developed its own sound incorporating elements of electronic body music and electro-industrial. The ba ...
.
In 1999, they released their third album, ''A+0(M)''. This album contained a cover of
Frankie Goes to Hollywood's "
Relax
Relax or RELAX may refer to:
Albums
* ''Relax'' (album), by Das Racist, 2011
* ''Relax'', by Blank & Jones, 2003
* ''Relax'', by Los Piratas, 2003
Songs
* "Relax" (Deetah song), 1998
* "Relax" (Frankie Goes to Hollywood song), 1983
* "Relax ...
". The album peaked at #7 on the
CMJ
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RPM Charts in the U.S.
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".
Discography
* ''Distorted Noise Arrythmia'' (1992)
* ''Collection for Injection'' (1996)
* ''Dark Skies'' (1998)
* ''A + 0
' (1999)
* "Relax" (2000, single)
* "Mind Decay" (2013, single)
* ''God Am I'' (2013)
* "Distorted Religion" (2014, single)
* ''I Am God'' (2015)
References
External links
*
Kevorkian Death Cycleat
Allmusic
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Kevorkian Death Cycleon MySpace
Kevorkian Death Cycleat Bandcamp
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Electronic music groups from California
Electro-industrial music groups