Murderdolls

Murderdolls were an American horror-punk supergroup, founded during 2002 in Hollywood, California by the late Joey Jordison.[1] The band line-up consisted of core members Wednesday13 and Joey Jordison. Followed by Ben "The Ghoul" Graves, Acey Slade, Eric Griffin and Tripp Eisen for the first album's tour. For the 2nd album's tour only Wednesday and Joey remained as the original founding members the others being replaced by new ones.
To date the band has only released two albums, the first in the form of Beyond the Valley of the Murderdolls which was released in 2002. The band had limited initial success in the United States, though their album and singles charted well in the United Kingdom and around the same time they picked up a strong following in Japan. Their second album, Women and Children Last, was released August 31, 2010. Wednesday 13 confirmed the bands split in an interview in March 2013. Some time during 2020 or 2021 the trademark and copyright for Murderdolls was bought out by former member Acey Slade.
Murderdolls 	Murderdolls
Origin 	Hollywood, California, US
Genres 	Horror punk, heavy metal
Years active 	2002–2004, 2010–2011
Labels 	Roadrunner
Associated acts	Slipknot, Dope, Static-X, Synical,Trashlight Vision, Gunfire 76, Scar the Martyr
Website 	www.murderdollsband.com
 	
Past members 	Wednesday 13
Joey Jordison
Roman Surman
Jack Tankersley
Jason West
Tripp Eisen
Ben Graves
Acey Slade
Eric Griffin
Racci Shay
==Characteristics==
The sound of the band is made up of their shared influences, which musically are punk rock and as well as from some of the 1970s hard rock acts (such as Kiss and Alice Cooper). The band also share a large interest in horror movies, from which they take images and references.
Lyrically, the group most often present themselves in a "tongue-in-cheek" manner,[2] covering topics of necrophilia, grave robbing, cross-dressing, shaving their eyebrows, and wearing makeup, amongst other things.
The Murderdolls are often described as "Mötley Crüe meets the Misfits"[3] by critics and fans alike.
==Biography==
===Early years===
Some[who?] consider the Murderdolls history to go back as far as 1994 to a Des Moines, Iowa based band Joey Jordison played in, named The Rejects, which was fronted by vocalist Dizzy X Draztik. The sound of the band was somewhat comparable to what the Murderdolls would later develop, minus the horror themed lyrics.
The Rejects split up as Jordison's "other band" Slipknot were signed to a major label. During the 1999 Ozzfest tour, Jordison met Tripp Eisen and asked him if he was interested in a project he had in mind; the reforming of the Rejects with Draztik. Eisen agreed to join the project and a friend of his from the band Dope and previously the Genitorturers, Racci Shay played drums with them. Also a bassist named Ian, who had played in New York based band the Vampire Love Dolls (fronted by Acey Slade who was known as J at the time), played with them live.
===Formation, Beyond the Valley of the Murderdolls (2001–2002)===
Dizzy Draztik introduced Joey Jordison to the music of the Frankenstein Drag Queens from Planet 13, a horror punk band from Charlotte, North Carolina, fronted by vocalist Wednesday 13. Draztik persuaded the band to invite the Drag Queens frontman to play with the Rejects. The pair had previously considered bringing Wednesday 13 into the band before Eisen joined. Wednesday joined them on November 2001, where he was brought into the Rejects as a bassist. Tripp Eisen has claimed that he suggested that his friend Acey Slade was brought into the band around this time, but was turned down.
Soon, Wednesday 13 was moved to the frontman position after Dizzy left the band to take care of his ailing mother. The band changed their name to the Murderdolls and would soon adopt a horror themed approach. In fact, in terms of material used Wednesday 13 became the driving force for it. Most of the tracks on the Murderdolls debut album came from his previous band Frankenstein Drag Queens from Planet 13, which would later introduce a whole new audience to the past music of Wednesday 13.
Wednesday 13, Jordison, and Eisen went into the recording studio to record an album of material. Which because of the association of Eisen and Jordison's other bands, was to be released on Roadrunner Records. Primarily the recording features Wednesday 13 and Joey Jordison playing all of the instruments and vocals, however Eisen recorded some of the guitar solos on it.
Around this time in late March 2002, Ben Graves and Eric Griffin, two musicians native of Boston, Massachusetts but were living in Hollywood, California at the time joined the Murderdolls. They were brought in after Eisen showed Jordison a video of himself jamming with the pair, they decided the duo would be right for the band. And although they would feature on the debut album artwork, they did not actually play on the album itself. The band played their first show together as the Murderdolls on July 30, 2002 at San Diego's Epicenter club.
An EP was released in early 2002 named Right to Remain Violent and featured some tracks from the forthcoming album. The full length album soon followed, titled Beyond the Valley of the Murderdolls. The initial release featured fifteen tracks; twelve in total had previously been recorded by Wednesday 13 with Frankenstein Drag Queens from Planet 13 and one from an earlier band Maniac Spider Trash, 13 did however write all of the aforementioned tracks himself.
The song "Welcome to the Strange" was featured on the soundtrack for the movie Freddy vs. Jason.
Upon its release the Murderdolls album was promoted to the public as the "other band" of Joey Jordison, the drummer of Slipknot, or a "collaboration" between Jordison and Tripp Eisen. At the time Wednesday 13's importance as song writer wasn't known by the public. The lead off single from the album was titled "Dead in Hollywood", the promotional video featured a guest appearance by Marilyn Manson, who had previously become friends with Jordison and was returning the favour of him earlier appearing in the video for "Tainted Love".
In July 2002 Eisen announced he was leaving the band and returning to his main band Static-X as they were due to record a new album at the time. Eisen's former Dope bandmate Acey Slade was brought in to replace him on guitar.[4]
===Touring (2002–2004)===
The first tour dates of the Beyond the Valley of the Murderdolls World Tour took the band through parts of the United States including; Los Angeles, Detroit, Chicago and Jordison's native Iowa. Their first major date was at the Summer Sonic Festival in Tokyo, Japan during August 18, 2002, two days before their debut album was released. This helped them gain a fan base in Japan.
Following this they played some dates in Europe, including a tour of the United Kingdom with AntiProduct (the lead singer of which, Alex Kane, replaced Griffin on Bass, when he had to return home during the tour)[5] and Ireland. At the time the band also co-headlined an international tour with label mates and friends of Jordison's Papa Roach.
Their restless touring continued throughout 2002 into 2003, where they played in several major festivals; first, they played at the Australian festival Big Day Out, going on after Queens of the Stone Age and Foo Fighters headlined the event. They were received favorably and one reviewer commented on the band's performance as a "mangled, choked and psychotic version of the Sex Pistols."[6] The other major festival dates during this time were Download Festival and Rock am Ring, Iron Maiden headlined both of the festivals.
Special Edition 2003 cover ofBeyond the Valley of the MurderdollsTogether, the band recorded a cover version of Billy Idol's "White Wedding". A promotional video was recorded for it, in which they mocked popstar singing contests such as the Idol series. It was released as a single in the United Kingdom and they even performed it on the premier UK chart show, Top of the Pops.
Mid 2003 The Murderdolls co-headlined a tour of England with fellow Roadrunner Records band,Stone Sour, which contained two of Jordison's fellow members of Slipknot.
Murderdolls toured at the end of 2003 in support of the single and the re-release of their debut, which included their Billy Idol cover as well as five other bonus tracks and b-sides: "Let's Fuck'", "I Take Drugs", "Crash Crash", "Welcome to the Strange" and "I Love to Say Fuck". The latter two had previously been recorded by Wednesday 13 with the Frankenstein Drag Queens from Planet 13. The tour went through many European countries including Spain, Italy, Croatia, andScandinavian countries before ending with a four date tour of the UK supported by Englishpsychobilly band Eighties Matchbox B-Line Disaster.
Murderdolls played their last show on January 17, 2004 in Corona, California. After this they went on an indefinite hiatus with Jordison returning to Slipknot. Since the hiatus begun, both Wednesday 13 and Jordison maintained that the band had not split up for good, and that they would return to record a second album together in the future.[7] Additionally, in a 2009 interview, Slade revealed that he would have been happy to reform the Murderdolls by now, but it always proves impossible due to other commitments of the band members.[8]
===Reunion & Women & Children Last and break-up (2010–2011)===
In February 2010, whilst embarking on a solo tour in Australia, Wednesday 13 spoke with Drum Media and told them he was tossing up whether to record another solo album or record another Murderdolls album. He stated that the idea was still in talks, but would be his number one priority if the opportunity arose.
In March 2010, Jordison officially revealed to Kerrang magazine that Murderdolls had officially reunited with him and Wednesday working with producer Chris "Zeuss" Harris. Jordison said about the reunion, "It's been an ongoing conversation between Wednesday and I from 2006 until now. We were bored with everything out there, and thought we had something to piss people off and shake things up. Everything is such a product or a fucking formula these days... Fuck formula! Fuck the norm!"[9]
It was revealed on the band's official website that the band would feature a new line-up, without Slade, Griffin or Graves.[10] Drummer Racci Shay joined the band alongside guitarist Roman Surman and bassist Jack Tankersley.
Mötley Crüe guitarist Mick Mars recorded a guest appearance on the new album, whilst he was recording material for his debut solo album in the same space.[11][12] On April 15, the band confirmed that they had finished recording their upcoming album Women & Children Last. Joey Jordison has said that he considers Women & Children Last as really the first true Murderdolls album.[13]
The band was expected to embark on a tour of North America, but the idea was scrapped after Jordison began touring with Rob Zombie on the Hellbilly Deluxe 2 World Tour and after the untimely death of his Slipknot bandmate Paul Gray. This led to the band performing only two shows in California in mid-June to promote their new album. The first show was captured on video and was released on DVD for the special edition of the album. Jordison resumed touring with Zombie in early July.
For Women & Children Last, Jordison and Wednesday 13 confessed to VerdamMnis Magazine that they consider this new release to be their very first album, as this is the first time they "sat down together to write songs and the production is a far better than from Beyond the Valley of the Murderdolls. They also revealed to the magazine that the CD was recorded in a mansion upon the Hollywood Hills, which encouraged them "to create their own sound with no influence from the outside world", as they were secluded.[14]
The album was released on August 31, 2010 through Roadrunner Records.
The band promoted the album on the Women & Children Last World Tour, on which they supported Guns N' Roses on a handful of European dates, performed on the main stage at the UK edition of the Ozzfest, supported Rob Zombie and Alice Cooper on the Halloween Hootenanny Tour (Jordison performed double duty with Zombie and the Murderdolls), and performed on Fuel TV's The Daily Habit.[15] The band was expected to embark upon a headlining tour of North America in December, followed by a tour of the United Kingdom in January, before returning to Australia for the first time in 8 years to co-headline the Soundwave Festival.
The band announced that, along with their North America tour, Violent Night, Deadly Night Tour, they were releasing a music video for the song "Nowhere" from Women & Children Last on November 29, 2010. However, On November 29, 2010, it was announced that the Violent Night, Deadly Night Tour was cancelled, due to family issues.[16]
In March 2013 Wednesday 13 announced in an interview that the Murderdolls had split for good in 2011.[citation needed]
==Other projects==
*Wednesday 13 also records under the Wednesday 13 name and has released several albums and toured extensively. He also resurrected the Frankenstein Drag Queens from Planet 13 for a brief tour. He created and performed as part of outlaw country actBourbon Crow as well as the glam rock outfit Gunfire 76.
*Joey Jordison continues to drum for Slipknot and Scar the Martyr, and has also played live with various other bands such as Ministry,Satyricon, Metallica, Korn and Rob Zombie.
==Band members[edit]==
===Final lineup===
*Joey Jordison – lead guitar, vocals (2002–2004, 2010–2011)
*Wednesday 13 – lead vocals, keyboards,guitar (2002–2004, 2010–2011)	
===Former members===
*Tripp Eisen – guitar, vocals (2002)
*Acey Slade – guitar, vocals (2002–2004)
*Eric Griffin – bass guitar, vocals (2002–2004)
*Ben Graves – drums (2002–2004)
*Augustus Gloop	
===Live members===
*Roman Surman – rhythm guitar, vocals (2010–2011)
*Jack Tankersley – bass guitar (2010–2011)
*Racci Shay – drums (2010–2011)
*Jason West – drums (2011)
*Augustus Gloop
==Discography==
Main article: Murderdolls discography===Studio albums===
*Beyond the Valley of the Murderdolls (2002)
*Women and Children Last (2010)
The Murderdolls were an American horror punk band founded during 2002 in Hollywood, CA, California. The band line-up consists of Wednesday 13, Joey Jordison, Acey Slade, Eric Griffin and Ben Graves, though the group are currently on a hiatus.
To date the band has released one album in the form of Beyond the Valley of the Murderdolls which was released in 2002, the band had limited initial success in the United States, though their album and singles charted well in the United Kingdom and around the same time they picked up a strong following in Japan.
==Love at First Fright==
The sound of the band is made up of their shared influences, which musically are; punk rock and glam metal, as well as from some of the 1970s hard rock and glam rock acts (Such as KISS and Alice Cooper). The band also share a large interest in horror movies, from which they take images, and references.
Lyrically the group most often present themselves in a "tongue-in-cheek" manner,[2] covering topics of necrophilia, grave robbing, cross dressing, amongst other things. This is standard practice for many horror punk bands.
The Murderdolls are often described as "Mötley Crüe meets the Misfits"[3] by critics and fans alike. Their bassist Eric Griffin also bears a considerable resemblance to the Mötley Crüe bassist Nikki Sixx.
==Dawn of the Dead==
Some consider the Murderdolls history to go back as far as 1994 to a Des Moines, Iowa based band Joey Jordison played in, named The Rejects, which was fronted by vocalist Dizzy Draztik. The sound of the band was somewhat comparable to what the Murderdolls would later develop, minus the horror themed lyrics.
The Rejects split up as Jordison's "other band" Slipknot were signed to a major label. During the 1999 Ozzfest tour, Jordison met Tripp Eisen and asked him if he was interested in a project he had in mind; the reforming of the Rejects with Draztik. Eisen agreed to join the project and a friend of his from the band Dope and previously the Genitorturers, Racci Shay played drums with them. Also a bassist named Ian, who had played in New York based band the Vampire Love Dolls (fronted by Acey Slade who was known as J at the time), played with them live.
Wednesday 13 brought into project Ironically, Dizzy Draztik introduced Joey Jordison to the music of the Frankenstein Drag Queens From Planet 13, a horror punk band from Charlotte, North Carolina, fronted by vocalist Wednesday 13. Eisen persuaded the band to invite the Drag Queens frontman to play with the Rejects, the two had previously considered bringing 13 into the band before Eisen joined. Wednesday joined them on November 2001, where he was brought into the Rejects as a bassist. Tripp Eisen has claimed that he suggested that his friend Acey Slade was brought into the band around this time, but was turned down.
Soon, Wednesday 13 was moved to the frontman position and Draztik was taken out of the project. The band changed their name to the Murderdolls (which Jordison came up with) and would soon adopt a horror themed approach. In fact, in terms of material used Wednesday 13 became the driving force for it. Most of the tracks on the Murderdolls debut album came from his previous band Frankenstein Drag Queens From Planet 13, which would later introduce a whole new audience to the past music of Wednesday 13.
Beyond the Valley of the Murderdolls
13, Jordison, and Eisen went into the recording studio to record an album of material. Which because of the association of Eisen and Jordison's other bands, was to be released on Roadrunner Records. Primarily the recording features Wednesday 13 and Joey Jordison playing all of the instruments and vocals, however Eisen recorded some of the guitar solos on it.
Around this time in late March 2002, Ben Graves and Eric Griffin, two musicians native of Boston, Massachusetts but were living in Hollywood, California at the time joined the Murderdolls. They were brought in after Eisen showed Jordison a video of himself jamming with the pair, they decided the duo would be right for the band. And although they would feature on the debut album artwork, they did not actually play on the album itself. The band played their first show together as the Murderdolls on July 30, 2002 at San Diego's Epicenter club.
An EP was released in early 2002 named "Right to Remain Violent" and featured some tracks from the forthcoming album. The full length album soon followed, titled; "Beyond the Valley of the Murderdolls", the initial release featured fifteen tracks; twelve in total had previously been recorded by 13 with Frankenstein Drag Queens From Planet 13 and one from an earlier band Maniac Spider Trash, 13 did however write all of the aforementioned tracks himself.
Upon its release the Murderdolls album was promoted to the public as the "other band" of Joey Jordison, the drummer of Slipknot, or a "collaboration" between Jordison and Tripp Eisen. At the time 13's importance wasn't known by the public, but fans later discovered the history. The lead off single from the album was titled "Dead In Hollywood", the promotional video featured a guest appearance by industrial rocker Marilyn Manson, who had previously become friends with Jordison and was returning the favour of him earlier appearing in the video for "Tainted Love".
After only playing two live shows with the Murderdolls, Eisen returned to his main band Static-X as they were due to record a new album at the time. A friend of Eisen's Acey Slade was brought in to replace him on guitar.[4]
==Dead in Hollywood==
The first tour dates took the band through parts of the United States including; Los Angeles, Detroit, Chicago and Jordison's native Iowa. Their first major date was at the Summer Sonic Festival in Tokyo, Japan during August 18, 2002, two days before their debut album was released. This helped them gain a fan base in Japan.
Following this they played some dates in Europe, including a tour of the United Kingdom with AntiProduct (the lead singer of which, Alex Kane replaced Griffin on Bass, when he had to return home during the tour[5]) and Ireland. At the time, there were no similar acts combining elements of punk and trashy glam for them to tour with, so the band toured with label mates and friends of Jordison's Papa Roach.
Their restless touring continued throughout 2002 into 2003 where they played several major festivals, first in Australia they played at the Big Day Out where Murderdolls went on after Queens of the Stone Age and Foo Fighters headlined the event. The other major festival dates during this time were Download Festival and Rock am Ring, Iron Maiden headlined both of the festivals.
Special Edition 2002 cover of "Beyond the Valley..."Together the band recorded a cover version of Billy Idol's "White Wedding", a promotional video was recorded for it, in which they mocked popstar singing contests such as the Idol series. It was released as a single in the United Kingdom and they even performed it on the premier UK chart show; Top of the Pops.
Mid 2003 The Murderdolls co-headlined a tour of England with fellow Roadrunner Records band, Stone Sour, which contained two of Jordison's fellow members of Slipknot.
Murderdolls toured at the end of 2003 in support of the single and the re-release of their debut, with six added bonus tracks, as well as their Billy Idol cover, other bonus tracks included; "Let's Fuck", "I Take Drugs", "Crash Crash", "Welcome to the Strange" and "I Love to Say Fuck". The latter two had previously been recorded by 13 with the Frankenstein Drag Queens From Planet 13. Their tour in support of this went through many European countries including Spain, Italy, Croatia, and Scandinavian countries before ending with a four date tour of the UK supported by English psychobilly band the Eighties Matchbox B-Line Disaster.
==Graverobbing==
Murderdolls played their last show on January 17, 2004 in Corona, California. After this they went on an indefinite hiatus with Jordison returning to Slipknot. Since this hiatus begun, both Wednesday 13 and Jordison have maintained that the band have not split up for good, and that they would return to record a second album together in the future.
==Slit my wrist==
Wednesday 13 recording under the Wednesday 13 name has released several albums and toured extensively, also he resurrected the Frankenstein Drag Queens From Planet 13 for a brief tour, and created and performs as part of outlaw country act Bourbon Crow. 
Acey Slade performed as vocalist and guitarist with sleaze rock band Trashlight Vision, before their split in 2007, and is now recording a solo album, and producing Scottish acoustic punk, Billy Liar. 
Joey Jordison continues to drum for Slipknot, he has also played live with various other band such as as well as live guest stints with other bands, such as Ministry and Satyricon though he was not a fully fledged member of those bands. In 2007 toured for KoRn after the departure of original drummer David Silveria. 
Eric Griffin has toured as guitarist with Faster Pussycat, The Napoleon Blownaparts, and Roxy Saint. During 2006 he joined up with the Murderdolls front man as lead guitarist for the Wednesday 13 band, but left the following year. 
Ben Graves filled in as drummer on the Japanese tour for the band Dope and has played with AntiProduct and industrial rock act Nocturne.
==Zombies==
==Wednesday 13 - vocals==
Facts:
- Is the Murderdolls lead singer.
- Formerly played bass in the band when they were the Rejects.
- Contributed quite a few songs to the 'Beyond the Valley of the Murderdolls' album from the Frankenstein Drag Queens from Planet 13 days.
- His name is Wednesday 13 because at the time all the rockstars were using numbers as names and on the TV show, The Munsters, they're address was 1313. Then Wednesday chose make Wednesay part of his name because of, "...That little bitch Wednesday Addams."
- During his Frankenstein Drag Queens days, Wednesday's alter ego was Audrey 3.
==Joey Jordison - guitar, backing vocals==
Instrument: Guitar
Real Name: Nathan Jonas Jordison
Nicknames: Superball
Age: 39
D.O.B: April 26th, 1975
Resides: Des Moines, Iowa
Marital Status: in a relationship
Previous Jobs: Joey used to work the midnight shift at a Des Moines gas station.
Previous/Other Bands: Anal Blast, Avanga, The Havenots, Hell Pig and ofcourse Slipknot
Favourite Super Hero: Killjoy from Necrophagia
influences: Black Metal, Hanoi Rocks, Slayer, Faster Pussycat, Morbid Angel, Faith No More, Mr.Bungle, Kiss, Motley Crue, Deicide, Dark Throne..etc
Facts:
- Joey also plays drums, but prefers guitar.
- On the 'Beyond the Valley of the Murderdolls' album, the drums and guitar parts were recorded by Joey, since they didn't have a drummer/bassist yet.
- Joey is the shortest member of the band.
- Joey is from Des Moines.
- Joey is said to be very talkative.
- Joey started his passion in 1982 at the age of six, having seen a news report stating that a metal star had bitten the head off of a bat the night before. "I immediately thought that Ozzy ruled". Soon after he bought the "Blizzard of Oz" album and the Sickness had started. "It hasn't left me to this day, It was meant to be. It was almost like Ozzy bit the head off a bat to pass the torch way early on, to another sick band."
- Joey is known as the crowdsurfer of the band.
==Acey Slade - guitar, backing vocals==
Instrument: Guitar
Nicknames: Bones or Mr. Bones
Age: 39
D.O.B: December 15th, 1974
Resides: NYC
Marital Status: Single i believe
Previous/Other Bands: Vampire Love Dolls, Mannequin (temporarily), and Dope
Influences: NMBC, Jack Skellington, Jane's Addiction, Hanoi Rocks, Emily Strange, Caffeine, Manic Street Preachers, AFI, Slayer, Faster Pussycat..etc
Facts: Played bass and guitar while in Dope (not at the same time).
- Originally joined the Murderdolls temporarily as a fill-in for Tripp Eisen.
- Quit Dope in July 2002 to join the Murderdolls fulltime.
- Likes the color red.
- Is a huge Nightmare Before Christmas fan.
- Is from Downingtown/West Chester, Pennsylvania.
==Eric Griffin - bass, backing vocals==
Instrument: Bass
Nicknames: Nikki Nine
Age: 38
D.O.B: February 24th, 1976
Resides: Grew up in Boston, Now Lives in Los Angeles
Marital Status: Has a Girlfriend
Previous/Other Bands: Synical
Influences: Motley Crue, Faster Pussycat, Slayer, Kiss, NIN, Iron Maiden...etc
Favourite Super Hero: Spider-Man
Facts:
- Eric is from Boston.
- Influences include Marilyn Manson and Nine Inch Nails.
- Also plays guitar.
- Joey and Tripp decided to allow Eric (with Ben) to join the Murderdolls mainly because they looked cool.
- Eric is in the Static-X video for the track, 'Cold' as a vampire.
- Is dressed like Axl Rose (from Guns and Roses) in the Alien Ant Farm video, 'Movies'.
- Is in the 'Back to School' Deftones' video as a student.
- Has a cameo in the movie, 'Queen of the Damned'.
- He started playing the electric guitar at the age of 12.
Half a year later he fell in love wiv a BC Rich Warlock and worked all summer saving up for it.
Tripp from stactic x (ex murderdoll member) exchanged numbers with eirc ( he was a vampire) for no reason while doing the stactic x video shoot. Tripp and the band later on realised that the murderdolls needed a bass player and drummer. So he called eric and asked him if he'd like to play bass. eric agreed and told tripp he had a kick ass drummer, Ben from Synical. So tripp taped them both jamming with him to show joey from Slipknot to look at the tape and he knew from there that Eric and Ben would be perfect because of their glam/industrial look and what great musicians they are.
==Ben Graves - drums==
Instrument: Drums
Nicknames: Ghoul
Age:41
D.O.B: November 5th, 1972
Resides: Born In Boston, now lives in LA
Marital Status: Single I believe
Previous Jobs: Ben used to work for Next
Previous/Other Bands: Synical
Favourite Super Hero: Blade
Influences: Horror Movies, Marilyn Manson, Guns N Roses, NIN, Orgy, Motley Crue..etc
Facts:
- Plays drums for the Murderdolls.
- Ben is from the Boston area along with Eric Griffin.
- Ben was also in Synical with Eric Griffin.
- Piercings: both ears, left and right side of nose, lip
- Tattoos: 2 purple roses on right shoulder and what apears to be Madusa on his left arm and a tattoo on his left wrist.
- Pets: a black kitten
-Favorite colors: red, black, purple, green
-Favorite drinks: water & Red Bull (before a show) / "Heineken & Heineken" (after a show)
Favorite bands: Mindless Self Indulgence, Marilyn Manson, Orgy, Deadsy, NIN, White Zombie, Coal Chamber
Favorite Movies: Halloween, Strange Days, The Terminator, Pulp Fiction, Blade Runner, Predator
Favorite TV shows: The Munsters, Jackass
3 things Ben likes: horror films, thai food, freaky girls
3 things Ben hates: hangovers, LA traffic, "my cell phone bill"
==Former Zombies==
Tripp and Joey were the two guys to start up the band of the Murderdolls.
Tripp then quit just before recording as he was to busy with Static X (recording album at same times), so he could not carry on. None the less, he was replaced by Acey Slade, who by the way is a kick ass dude, and awesome
Tripp Eisen - Got busted for Kidnapping and Statutory Rape after a meet and greet at Guitar Center in Matthews North Carolina! His tour bus was later found after the meet and greet and on board they found the 2 girls who voluntarily went with him but were in fact under age and still lived with their parents.
==EP==
"Right to Remain Violent" - (2002)
==Singles==
Title Date of Release US Chart Position UK Chart Position
"Dead in Hollywood" 2002 #54
"White Wedding" 2003 #24