Christina England

**Christina England** is an American-born Canadian bassist & voice actress currently the bassist for Hardwire where she has served since forming in 1996. She is well known for being in Nexus where she played bass & did co-lead vocals.

## Musical Career

### Genres

Nu metal, Emo metal, Punk metal, Alternative rock (early), Hard rock (early), Alternative metal (early)

## Early life

Christina Sundburg England was born July 23rd 1970 at 8:00am in Porterfield, Wisconsin, her older brother Tyler England was born two years prior on January 31st 1968. Her family grew up on the countryside & was from a very wealthy family. Her family did Brahman cow farming (but did not slaughter them as they bought steak at the store.) & raised 2 adopted tamed Mustang horses named "Nixon" & "Devitt". Christina released her first song when she was 4 years old called "Searchlight Blues" under her mothers label Horse Lick Records. Christina was 17 years old when she graduated as a 11th grader & attended University of La Crosse & met Bryson Blade & Scott Ryker, where they became friends over a love of Palsy.

## Nexus (1988-1994, 2022-present)

the three of them were later joined by Jack Rylan & Drake Wentz, after the five graduated; they decided to form a band, originally called "Hitachi" they released one self-titled demo which caught the eye of Sub Pop who they later signed to the label. In late 1988 they changed their name to Nexus & released their debut extended play called "Hitachi" on December 27th 1988. On March 18th 1989 the band released their debut album "Eurobux" which had cost the band $1,229.19. They went on tour across the Midwest which concluded in 1990. In November of 1990 the band accidently left a Sony WM-FX195 Walkman AM / FM Stereo Cassette Player full of unreleased material on a American Airlines private flight where they were coming back from Grand Rapids, they thought the material would be revealed on Good Day Wisconsin, so they decided to release it as Alumni in 1991, the band went on a 4 concert tour which concluded in 1992 where they would record their third effort, 1992's Malware Precision had a more Hard rock/Alternative rock, the band performed virtual concerts in favor of the California riots that took place. In 1993 the album Note to Self was released which had detailed a reality of a schizophrenic man killing Scott, sadly this album would predict the future. The band went on tour with a then unknown Geostorm as the opening act in mid 1993 & was set to conclude on April 19th 1995 at the Pabst Theater in Milwaukee, but a murder at the Rolling Acres Mall in Akron, Ohio took place & the band announced the break up following that. However in 2022 the band reunited for two shows called "BunBun & Pibby's Reunion" with Chris Ryker performing vocals.

## Hardwire (1996-2022)

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 set to release June 7th 2022 called "Monstrosity".

## Gear

Dean Z Metalman Black bass (used while with Nexus)

Dean Christina England Signature Emerald Green Z Metalman bass (uses while with Hardwire)

## Discography

### With Hitachi/Nexus

#### As Nexus

*Hitachi (1989, EP)*

*Eurobux (1989)*

*Alumni (1991)*

*Malware Precision (1992)*

*Note To Self (1993)*

*Nexus (1998)*

*Bitched Bout U (2022, Live Album)*

*Uprooted (2023)*

### With Hardwire

*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)*

## Personal Life

Christina England currently resides in Tulsa, Oklahoma

Christina was married to Carnage Macabre bassist Anthony Everett from 1987 to 2000 & is currently married to Violent Impact bassist Dylan Orso.

They have 5 children named "Levi" (born 2012) "Brianna" (born 2014) "Sawyer" (born 2016), "Krista" (born 2018) & "Mason" (born 2020) & one adopted kid named "Lexi" (born 2016).

Christina & Dylan raises two Arabian horses named "Beau" & "Domino", two tamed & adopted Mustang horses named "Facade" & "Chance", one brindle mastiff named "Ace" & one St Bernard dog named "Steen".

Christina & Dylan also run a Brahman cow farm that does not slaughter.