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About Me


Detroit is home to a fifty-megaton nuclear warhead. It’s name? Chapstik .
Chapstik is a wasteland for mastermind/guitarist/vocalist Leighton Mann . It’s where his art-damaged mind and sarcastic wit collide with the demons of doom metal. Where a three guitar sonic attack, led by Mann ( Glori5 , FistFuck USA ), Erin-Elvis (BONK!, Glori5 ) and HoChi ( MotorCityBurgers ) is paired with low end bass wrangling from Dan G ( Paradise , Novadriver ) and V8 powered skin bashing from John Lehl ( Diegrinder ). It’s where the balls of tortured souls are rocked into oblivion.
Chapstik began in the mid ’90s in San Antonio and cycled through eight members before Mann got a case of wanderlust and decided to move his base of operations west of Detroit to Ypsilanti, MI . While in Ypsilanti, the band cycled through another eight members and released its first full-length, "Whiskey Time" on Baltimore’s Reptilian Records in 1998.
A second disc, "Chimingo" was quietly released to friends and supporters in 2002 and a permanent line-up was settled in 2005, taking the band through eleven years, twenty-three members and a musical evolution from the garage type punk of its humble beginnings to its current status as the world’s angriest party band.
Armed with an album of newly recorded material, the warhead of a band finds itself on the verge of detonation. With their third release "Barnburner" now complete, do they choose to keep the uneasy peace of mutually assured destruction intact, or let the prophesy of Armageddon fulfill itself? Only the bowels of the Motor City know the answer.
Dare you push the button?
Reviews:
CHAPSTIK - Barnburner
Unfortunate Miracle Records
"If you’re a fan of hard hitting riff rock, this one delivers... fine purveyors of the heavy take notice. It’s called Barnburner for a reason."
John Pegoraro - StonerRock.com
"Chapstik has already managed to carve out their own demented place in music... This is heroin riffrock for the masses."
Kevin McHugh - Hellride Music
You can’t extol the virtues of stoner rock enough, that underappreciated subgenre of rock ’n’ roll. In fact, by hurling fistfuls of thund-and-speed, bands like Chapstik appeal to the baser self, the self that cannot resist the power of the head band and the flashing of the metal sign - the self that knows why it feels so good to be bad. Chapstik is pure adrenaline.
Eve Doster - The Metrotimes
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Member Since: 7/7/2004
Band Website: chapstikbomb.com
Band Members: Leighton Mann (vocals/guitar)

Erin-Elvis (guitar/vocals)

HoChi (guitar)

DanG (bass/vocals)

John Lehl (drums / broken drums)
Influences: Chapstik boys (and girl) have toured with or played with:
Zeke, Speedealer, Disengage, Neurosis, Boxcar Satan, Bad Wizard, Easy Action, Stinking Lizaveta, At the Drive In, Honky, Jucifer, And You Will Know Us by the Trail of Dead, Alabama Thunderpussy, Heroin Sheiks, Dysrhythmia, Throw Rag, Thrall, Bible of the Devil, God Bullies, Diegrinder, Heads Will Roll, Orange Goblin, Bang Bang, Hammerhead, Janitor Joe, Gnomes of Zurich, Novadriver, Quadrajets, Broadzilla, Devil to Pay, Immortal Lee County Killers, Turbo ACs, Modey Lemon, Starfish, Migas, Evil Mothers, Iron Boss, Electric Eel Shock, Demolition Doll Rods, Puny Human...

CHAPSTIK
Barnburner (UMR.031)
Unfortunate Miracle Records

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Chimingo
Speed Records

Currently Unavailable
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Whiskey Time(rep030)
Reptilian Records

V/A
Hell Ain't a Bad Place to Be... (A Tribute to AC/DC)(rep032)
Reptilian Records
Various Artists include: Zeke, The Dwarves, Electric Eel Shock, REO Speedealer, Supersuckers, Honky, Iron Boss, Electric Frankenstein, and more...
Sounds Like: Two Universes colliding in the convenience of your own home.
Record Label: Unfortunate Miracle / Reptilian / Speed
Type of Label: Indie

My Blog

Chapstik: Original Lineup in San Antonio (recap)

Though there were 3 HD cameras filming the event for a DVD, I must write down what happened at the Boxcar Satan 15th Anniversary / Chapstik reunion show before I forget. First, Mig Kokinda did an ama...
Posted by CHAPSTIK on Fri, 11 Apr 2008 01:11:00 PST

Maximum RockNRoll (10 Years ago...)

Chapstik review from 10 years ago in MRR along with some other bands you may have heard of:(Wildbunch are now some side project called the "Electric Six")...
Posted by CHAPSTIK on Wed, 20 Feb 2008 10:47:00 PST

Chapstik in Real Detroit Weekly’s "In My Ear"

in my earChapstikThe furious five-piece from Detroit known as Chapstik is a guaranteed lip smackin' good time. Crashing through The D like a semi racing out of hell, you can kiss your puckered lips go...
Posted by CHAPSTIK on Fri, 21 Dec 2007 08:40:00 PST

Chapstik tours for the pussy

Chapstik tours just for the :"CHICKS" uneaten in San Anto (thanks for not pooping on stage!) GIRLS GIRLS GIRLS: ...supercute daughters of David in Austin (thanks for the vegan pancakes!)"Visits to the...
Posted by CHAPSTIK on Wed, 18 Apr 2007 08:30:00 PST

The history of all 20+ members of Chapstik

Current Former Members of Chapstik on stage and / or recording (in order of appearance): TEXASPhil Luna (OG briefly guitar / named band - Worm TX)Jerry (briefly guitar OG - Worm TX) Ernesto (OG drum...
Posted by CHAPSTIK on Thu, 13 Apr 2006 07:19:00 PST

Songs covered by the horriba Chapstika

Covers are best when they are surprising revisions of a song that is either classic or has a great backbone despite poor execution...usually.Songs that just one of my bands, Chapstik, has covered in i...
Posted by CHAPSTIK on Wed, 27 Dec 2006 10:48:00 PST

Barnburner - The reviews are trickling in...

Delusions of AdequacyGary Blackwell's Top 10 of 2006Chapstik - Barnburner: Hell yes. To augment this album properly, the Chapstik gang went out and found someone capable of banging out a truly massive...
Posted by CHAPSTIK on Wed, 08 Nov 2006 05:16:00 PST

SEX! BOOZE! ROCK! CD RELEASE PARTY!

They call 'em CD Release "PARTIES," but rarely is one truly a PARTY like this! Chapstik's third full-length album "Barnburner" will be released on Unfortunate Miracle Records (Aquarius Void, Christ...
Posted by CHAPSTIK on Wed, 18 Oct 2006 08:47:00 PST

The new record...

Alright, well... it's been over three years in the making, but we just finished up recording our record last month and the mixes are about halfway done. The disc weighs in at over 45 minutes long, an...
Posted by CHAPSTIK on Tue, 30 May 2006 08:34:00 PST

Video

It's like really really boring porn. Video of Chapstik live in the vids.
Posted by CHAPSTIK on Wed, 05 Apr 2006 08:50:00 PST