Hardwire

**Hardwire** were an Canadian-American metal band formed in 1996 by the former members of Nexus with former lead singer of Destiny, Roxanne Carter

## Hardwire

### Labels

Eclipse (joint releases with Pinnacle Records)

## Members

### Past members

Roxanne Carter, Christina England, Jack Rylan, Drake Wentz, Bryson Blade

## History

Roxanne Carter left Destiny in 1995 to quote "Teach those cunts a lesson", she found Christina England, Jack Rylan, Drake Wentz & Bryson Blade & asked them if they wanted to form a band. Originally the members were not sure if they wanted to form a band after the murder of Scott Ryker in late 1994. But on new years day of 1996 Bryson called Roxanne & said "Alright... Me, Christina, Drake & Jack want to join, but only hire security guards that can accept wearing bulletproof vests." The band released their first extended play under Eclipse Records & Pinnacle Records called "Necro" in 1996. In 1997 they released their self-titled debut studio album, they opened for Phantasm in 1998. In 1999 they released their next album called "Russian Roulette with a Toddler" & went on tour with Damnation as the opening act. In 2001 they released their third album "Lion Kisses" which had a more metalcore & mathcore sounding which was followed up with "Beast of Eden" in 2002 which had a more Death metal & Black metal-influenced sounding. In 2006 the band started recording their fifth studio album, 2007's "Slamfest" which got back to their nu metal/punk metal/emo metal sounding. In 2010 they were apart of Van's Warped Tour on the Skullcandy stage. In 2011 they released their sixth studio album called "Corrupted Cartoons" (funny enough this name alone would predict Pibby: Apocalypse) & went on a Family Values-like tour called the "Slamfest Tour 2011-12" with Korn, Damnation, Fozzy, Extreme Attitude, System of a Down & Necro Theory. In 2012 they released their next album "Chancellor" & saw the bands first radio hit called "Wired Shut". In 2015 they released "Genocidal Drones" which followed up with "Rancid Moshpit" in 2016. They toured with Hatbox with Ded as the opening act in 2017 through 2018. In 2019 they released their tenth studio album called "Vore at the Children's Museum". In 2021 they released their eleventh album "Newlydead" & followed up with their twelfth studio album that released June 7th 2022 called "Monstrosity". However, in July of 2022, it was announced that Roxanne Carter had rejoined Destiny and Hardwire was going on hiatus for the remaining four members to reform Nexus. However, Roxanne Carter announced on Facebook that Hardwire broke up. After the breakup, Christina would go on to become the manager of Novo, Jack Rylan would become a special ed teacher at Summit Elementary School in La Crosse, Drake would become a co-owner of the Mariner Theater in Marinette, Wisconsin and Bryson would go on to become a producer for My Chemical Romance.

## Members

Roxanne Carter-lead vocals (1996-2022) \*had 8 different microphones by Shure, Sennheiser & Yamaha\*

Christina England-bass (1996-2022) \*played Dean Christina England Signature Emerald Green Z Metalman bass\*

Jack Rylan-rhythm guitar (1996-2022) \*played Gibson Jack Rylan Signature Neon Red Firebird guitar with Boss Heavy Metal WAZA CRAFT pedal\*

Drake Wentz-lead guitar (1996-2022) \*played Fender Drake Wentz Signature Cobalt Blue Jazzmaster guitar with Behringer Super Fuzz pedal\*

Bryson Blade-drums (1996-2022) \*played triple bass Tama 18 piece drum set with 20 Meinl cymbals\*

## Discography

*Necro (1997, EP)*

*Hardwire (1997)*

*Russian Roulette with a Toddler (1999)*

*Lion Kisses (2001)*

*Beast of Eden (2002)*

*Slamfest (2007)*

*Corrupted Cartoons (2011)*

*Chancellor (2012)*

*Genocidal Drones (2015)*

*Rancid Moshpit (2016)*

*Vore at the Children's Museum (2019)*

*Newlydead (2021)*

*Monstrosity (2022)*