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Vicious Kings

One step higher into the purple

About Me

Vicious Kings is a three-man crew that plays honest, balls-out, in-your-face rock and roll. With hooky tunes, explosive performances, and influences everywhere from Grunge, Punk, Hard Rock to Classic Rock and Surf, they have been honing their stage skills since 2002, readying to assault your senses with their own brand of aggressive rock. From Fletcher's, the Ottobar, Sonar and the Sidebar in Baltimore, to Asylum, DC9, and the Velvet Lounge in DC, they have taken venues in Baltimore and DC by storm. No place is safe from the fury; no place is safe from the wrath. Hail to the Kings, baby.

My Interests

Music:

Member Since: 1/14/2005
Band Members: Dave Dobyski
-Lead Vocals/Guitar, Jack Daniels, Miller Lite
Randy Lusby
-Bass/Vocals, Tequila, Craft brewed or just Natural Light, baby!
Travis Mays
-Drums, Whiskey, Sam Adams
Influences: All legends of Rock n Roll past and present.

...Burning Brides, Led Zeppelin, the Raconteurs, Queens of the Stone Age, Alice in Chains, Motorhead, the Melvins, the Beatles, Smashing Pumpkins, Nirvana, the Cure, Social Distortion, the Distillers, Sonic Youth, Bad Religion, the Wipers, Foo Fighters, Green Day, Soundgarden, Mudhoney, Metallica, Rancid, NOFX, Jimmi's Chicken Shack, the White Stripes, Kix, AudioSlaves...
Sounds Like: unadulterated rock! grunge era, west coast punk rock, classic rock, pop/rock, metal influences
Record Label: Yes, please
Type of Label: None

My Blog

Early VK song - Unrest Nation

Digging through the archives, we came across this super early recording from one of our practices way back in 2004. It's a song we played a lot in our early sets when we first started playing out, th...
Posted by Vicious Kings on Thu, 21 Feb 2008 01:03:00 PST

Done

Vicious Kings ended on a career high. Opening for Mondo Generator and Burning Brides as their last two shows at the Ottobar. Seeing as we can't ever top that, we quit.Dave now spends his days marrie...
Posted by Vicious Kings on Sun, 06 Jan 2008 04:11:00 PST

The Songs above

I want to tell you a little story... A long time ago Vicious Kings went into a slick ass recording studio and layed down some tracks with the intention of putting them into an album.  Then they w...
Posted by Vicious Kings on Tue, 27 Mar 2007 10:51:00 PST

New drummer, new sound

Well Vicious Kings has come to another crossroads. We're losing Travis, sadly, but Dave and I have chosen to continue down the path we set years ago in Dave's little suburban basement. Though our liv...
Posted by Vicious Kings on Mon, 28 Aug 2006 11:53:00 PST

The New Rock we are unleashing = excitement

The band is sounding better than ever right now as we continue to bring our new drummer up to speed and write new tunes. Last night's practice was eye-opening.   Such passion, energy and tightnes...
Posted by Vicious Kings on Thu, 21 Dec 2006 09:43:00 PST

New Pics

Check our myspace pictures for some awesome new ones taken by Marc Hartley at our last Fletcher's show. We'll have more of those plus pictures from the Fletcher's show before that up at our website s...
Posted by Vicious Kings on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST

New Songs

We have two newly recorded songs for you. You can hear one of them here called "Beat My Valentine" - you can download both of them over at our website. Both will be on our untitled upcoming EP....
Posted by Vicious Kings on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST

Name our EP

Hey Freakbags. We're in the beginning stages of releasing our first ever EP and we want to know what you would call it. It's going to consist of 5-6 studio tracks and 2-3 live tracks. Post as many ...
Posted by Vicious Kings on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST