current_members website associated_acts years_active notable_instruments label article_title past_members background origin name
del alien max rael -lsb- http://www.historyofguns.net/ historyofguns.net -rsb- the raelism , blue label meads of asphodel , xykogen , spucktute , 1996 & ndash ; current moog prodigy . kawai r50 liquid len records/line out records history of guns
 gary the goose , kevin gerrish hughes , stagger lee , fester schuster , group_or_band united kingdom history of guns
history of guns

history of guns are an english cross-genre group combining elements of industrial , punk , big beat , electronica , goth , edm , rock and avant-garde from hertfordshire , england .
the current members are del alien and max rael .
their name comes from the title of one of their earliest songs , written about the dunblane massacre .
primarily a studio project , history of guns played live sporadically throughout their career including the whitby gothic weekend and both futurepunk23 and back to the futurepunk.name = `` line out records bands page '' > -lsb- http://www.lineoutrecords.com/bands/historyofguns/ line out records in 2007 , their song your obedient servants came in at no. 19 in journalist mick mercer 's list of top 30 goth singles of all time .
in april 2008 , line out records sponsored the whitby gothic weekend bi-annual football tournament so teams were competing for , ` the history of guns - acedia challenge cup ' .
their third album acedia was released on 7 july 2008 on line out records and was awarded 9/10 by rock sound .
a reaction against the relentless miserablism of `` acedia '' , history of guns followed it up with `` the spice girls '' ep in april 2009 .
a light-hearted , three-song investigation into the spice girls , including the track `` slice up your wife '' .
their latest release was `` whatever you do , do n't turn up at twelve '' , released on zero state media / line out records on 21 october 2011 .
in august 2015 they were featured in the beautiful noise exhibition at hertford museum of notable bands from the area .
