Circus Lupus was a post-hardcore

Post-hardcore

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 band based in the area of Washington, DC

Washington, D.C.

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, U.S.A.

United States

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. The band originally formed in Madison

Madison, Wisconsin

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 where one-time Ignition and Soul Side

Soulside

Soulside were a post-hardcore band from the greater Washington, D.C. area. The original name of the band was Lunchmeat, formed in 1985. The name was changed to Soulside in spring 1986 and they disbanded in summer of 1989, after an extensive European tour and recording the definitive Hot Bodi-Gram...

 bassist Chris Thomson met guitarist Chris Hamley and drummer Arika Casebolt while attending school. The name "Circus Lupus" comes from an SCTV

Second City Television

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 bit about "Circus Lupus, the Circus

Circus

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 of Wolves," a mock TV commercial for an entirely wolf-filled traveling circus, with graphics of wolves on trapeze

Trapeze

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 swings and other circus apparati

Apparatus

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. Reg Shrader initially played bass with the band. He was replaced by Seth Lorinczi as the band was making its transition from Madison to Washington, DC.

The band released two full length album

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s and a seven-inch single

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 on Dischord Records

Dischord Records

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. The Super Genius LP (DIS63) was released in 1992, followed by the "Pop Man" b/w "Pressure Point" single (DIS73; produced by Joan Jett

Joan Jett

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) and Solid Brass

Solid Brass

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LP (DIS79) in 1993. The band has also released material on the Cubist Production record label

Record label

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. Members of the band have participated in other projects, including work released on Chicago

Chicago

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-based label Southern Records

Southern Records

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. One of these follow-up bands was Antimony, featuring Arika Casebolt on drums, Seth Lorinczi on bass and Chris Hamley on guitar and vocals. They released a full-length album in 1995 on Double Deuce Records out of New York

New York City

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. Chris Thomson and Chris Hamley later reunited to form the Dischord and Simple Machines Records

Simple Machines

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 band Monorchid. Seth Lorinczi moved to San Francisco in the 2000s, creating the band The Quails

The Quails (US band)

The Quails was a punk band from San Francisco, California. The band was formed in 1999 by Seth Lorinczi, formerly of Circus Lupus, and have released three albums, the second of which, Atmosphere , was praised for its "strangeness" and "artistic value" by Kerry L...

 with Jen Smith

Jen Smith

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 and Julianna Bright and releasing three CDs.

Members

• Chris Thomson: vocals
• Arika Casebolt: drums
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• Chris Hamley: guitar
  Guitar
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• Seth Lorinczi: bass
  Bass guitar
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• Reg Shrader: bass
  Bass guitar
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