Although their music often winds up being overshadowed by their shenanigans, the players take their heavy-metal influences seriously. There are also healthy doses of samples, as well as tips of the hat to Cop Shoot Cop, Drive Like Jehu, Zenigeva and early practitioners of speed metal. Better yet, the musicians delivering this racket go to the trouble of actually performing. You know, it's more of an audio-visual thing to go see one of our shows. It's definitely more entertaining than just standing there.
People get into it a lot more.
Rise Nine and a Half and Dick Satan Leisure E, respectively. Shank Portion, Leddy's moniker, is more succinct. Clearly, you'll find little sincerity here. Meanface's roots go back to 1992, when Berger, who'd played with Leddy and Layton in the Boulder punk band Discipline, followed Leddy to Dallas. After some trials and errors, the pair moved back to Denver in 1993 and recruited Layton, who was then playing with another flamboyant Boulder combo, Bunny Genghis.