The Splatterpunks were formed in 1989 by Boris Randall with a mission to bring horror rock to small-town Ohio. After recruiting local ghouls Rawb(bass), Oz(guitar), and Igor(drums), they played a handful of gigs opening for the areas top ranking bands such as Killjoy and Ide's March. The band went into the studio in March of 1989 and recorded their debut indy release, "Rat-Boy."
In 1990, Boris made a change in the line up. Amon(guitar), Johnny Coffin(bass), and Mikel(drums), were now the new Splatterpunks. They landed a few gigs but played mostly on their own by "making" their own events to play. By this time, The Splatterpunks were starting to gain a local cult status. They recorded their second release in August of 1990 which was titled "It's Only Murder."
From 1991-1995 The band continued to play and release only live material. It wasn't until 1996, with new members, that The Splattepunks released their third album titled "The Devil's Empyrean." Amon(guitar), Chud(drums), and Bo(bass) were backing Boris now. January 1996 saw the reemergence of the cult following with this release, only now bigger. The band continued to play and simultaneously record what became their biggest undertaking yet.
"The Demonology" was The Splatterpunks anthology. It was only released on two cassettes and carried 72 songs spanning the entire career of the band from 1989 until 1997. All songs from previous releases we re-recorded and unreleased material, some live, and rare songs were included. Also packaged with it was a 28 page booklet containing the band's history, artwork, and lyrics to all songs.
The Splatterpunks played their final show on Halloween 1999. For the last 4 years there's been no word of them, but they pop up when you least expect them! There has been rumors of a new studio release. Only time will tell.
Splatter Facts:
Boris Randall & Igor are brothers
Rawb is now a police officer
"Rat-Boy" cost the band eighty dollars to make and was the only studio recording the band paid for
Oz, Johnny Coffin, Mikel and Amon all wrote songs for the band
Boris Randall & Johnny Coffin are now members of Hallowmas who use a session drummer named Paxton House, aka Igor
Boris appears on the Necrophagia release "Goblins Be Thine" on the title track and Killjoy appears on the Hallowmas release "October Burning" on the song "Violentella"
Hallowmas guitarist, Damien Matthews was never in the Splatterpunks, but was photographed standing on stage singing backing vocals with them in 1997
Rawb, who had never played an instrument, bought a bass for twenty-five dollars and learned all of the songs within a week.
The band used to have such troubles finding a drummer that they often rehearsed without one!
The Splatterpunks were originaly called "The Addicted," and changed their name shortly before their first show.
Their first show ever was an opening spot for "Killjoy" in 1989.
The Splatterpunks were offered a record deal with an Italian label in 1997 but turned it down.
To fill an hour and 10 minute show, The Splatterpunks had to play 42 songs.
The shortest song was 47 seconds while the longest was 2 minutes and 34 seconds.
Johnny coffin played a three-string bass.
Today, Boris still gets requests for The Splatterpunks' releases.
In 10 years, The Splatterpunks wrote 72 songs about blood, guts, murder, monsters, aliens, satanism, necromantics, grave robbing, serial killers, zombies, black magic, and politics.
The song "6/16/66" was about friend Rob Boyce and the song "Q's Dead" was written for longtime friend Stivq Locke.
The band only had 10 rehearsals before playing their first show.
In 1996, they played 3 shows without a bass player.
The first member to join the band was Rawb(bass 1989) and the last to join was Donhead(drums 1999).
the Splatterpunks Info taken from www.splatterpunks.s5.com
