List of Suicidal Tendencies band members
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Suicidal Tendencies
The following is a list of musicians who have been members of American crossover thrash
Crossover thrash
__FORCETOC__Crossover thrash, often abbreviated to crossover, is a form of thrash metal that contains more hardcore punk elements than standard thrash. The genre lies on a continuum between heavy metal and punk rock...

 and hardcore punk
Hardcore punk
Hardcore punk is an underground music genre that originated in the late 1970s, following the mainstream success of punk rock. Hardcore is generally faster, thicker, and heavier than earlier punk rock. The origin of the term "hardcore punk" is uncertain. The Vancouver-based band D.O.A...

 band Suicidal Tendencies
Suicidal Tendencies
Suicidal Tendencies is a U.S. crossover thrash band founded in 1981 in Venice, Los Angeles, California by Mike Muir, its leader and only permanent member. The band is sometimes credited as one of "the fathers of crossover thrash"...

. Formed in 1981, the band currently comprises lead vocalist Mike Muir
Mike Muir
Mike Muir is the lead vocalist of the Venice skate punk bands Suicidal Tendencies Los Cycos and the funk rock band Infectious Grooves...

, guitarists Mike Clark
Mike Clark (guitarist)
Mike Clark is an American heavy metal and punk rock guitarist. He is best known for being the rhythm guitarist with Suicidal Tendencies. He has been playing with the band since 1987, and was the only member besides Mike Muir to return to the band when they reunited. He originally played in the...

 and Dean Pleasants
Dean Pleasants
Dean Pleasants is a heavy metal guitarist. He is currently the lead guitarist for Suicidal Tendencies, replacing Rocky George after the split up in 1997. He is also a member of the Suicidal Tendencies funk metal side project Infectious Grooves. He also played with Ugly Kid Joe on their America's...

, bassist Steve Bruner and drummer Eric Moore.

Band Member Biography

Suicidal Tendencies formed in Venice, Los Angeles, California
Venice, Los Angeles, California
Venice is a beachfront district on the Westside of Los Angeles, California, United States. It is known for its canals, beaches and circus-like Ocean Front Walk, a two-and-a-half mile pedestrian-only promenade that features performers, fortune-tellers, artists, and vendors...

 in 1981 by Mike Muir, guitarist Mike Ball, bassist Mike Dunnigan and drummer Carlos Egert. A short-lived lineup, Ball and Egert left after a matter of months, prompting Mike Dunnigan to switch to guitar and having his brother, Sean, join on drums, and Andrew Evans joined on bass. Mike Dunnigan would later be replaced by Rick Battson. By 1983, Battson, Evans and Sean Dunnigan had left the band, to be replaced by Grant Estes
Grant Estes
Grant Estes is an American guitarist from Santa Monica, California. He was one of the guitarists for the highly influential band Suicidal Tendencies, during the band's hardcore punk era.-Suicidal Tendencies/Los Cycos:...

, Louiche Mayorga
Louiche Mayorga
Louiche Mayorga is best known for his bass playing in the Venice punk band "Suicidal Tendencies."He co-wrote many of their earlier songs including the punk classic "Institutionalized" from their 1983 debut album on Frontier, as well as" "War Inside My Head," "Possessed To Skate." and the title...

 and Amery Smith
Amery Smith
Amery "AWOL" Smith is a drummer from Los Angeles, California. He is best known for playing drums in the Venice punk band "Suicidal Tendencies."-Early Life:...

 on guitar, bass and drums respectively. After the 1983 release of the band's self-titled debut
Suicidal Tendencies (album)
-Personnel:* Mike Muir – lead vocals* Grant Estes – guitar[A]* Louiche Mayorga – bass, backing vocals* Amery Smith – drums-Production:* Glen E...

 album Estes left the band and was replaced by Jon Nelson
Jon Nelson (guitarist)
Jonathan D. "Jon" Nelson is best known for playing lead guitar in the controversial punk band Suicidal Tendencies.-Early life:...

.

In 1984, Nelson and Smith left Suicidal Tendencies and was briefly replaced by Anthony Gallo
Anthony Gallo
Anthony "Bob" Gallo is an American lead and rhythm guitarist. He started out at age 16 in the early eighties punk scene and progressed into heavy metal and rock. His career has spanned over 30 years, playing and recording with Megadeth drummer Nick Menza, L.A...

 who left to form Los Cycos
Los Cycos
Los Cycos is a U.S. crossover thrash band founded in 1984 in Venice, Los Angeles, California by Suicidal Tendencies frontman Mike Muir. The only recording of the band appears on the rare 1985 release "Welcome to Venice," the debut album and first release from Suicidal Records.-Band biography and...

 with Muir. Enter Rocky George
Rocky George
Rocky George is an American heavy metal guitarist who has been a member of several notable musical acts. George's guitar playing career began in 1982 when he joined a local punk rock band called Pap Smear. He became lead guitarist of Suicidal Tendencies in 1984 and stayed with the band until their...

 and R. J. Herrera
R. J. Herrera
Ralph J. Herrera is a heavy metal drummer. He is best known for being the drummer of Suicidal Tendencies between the years of 1984 and 1991. After Suicidal Tendencies, he joined Uncle Slam, a crossover thrash band featuring ex-Suicidal members...

. After Join the Army
Join the Army
* "War Inside My Head", "Human Guinea Pig", and "You Got, I Want" were originally written by previous guitarist Jon Nelson. He traded the rights for "War Inside My Head" for a Flying V guitar after he left the band....

was released in 1987, Mayorga left the band that same year, being replaced by Ric Clayton (formerly of No Mercy
No Mercy (American band)
No Mercy are a thrash metal band from Venice, California, the brainchild of guitar player Mike Clark, who later played in Suicidal Tendencies.-History:...

) before hiring Bob Heathcote
Bob Heathcote
Bob Heathcote is best known for his bass playing in the crossover thrash band Suicidal Tendencies.-Early Life:Robert ”Bob” Heathcote was born May 27th, 1964. He grew up in Westchester, California. His main bass guitar influences were Geddy Lee of Rush and Chris Squire of Yes. One of his first bands...

. Also in 1987, they hired Mike Clark
Mike Clark (guitarist)
Mike Clark is an American heavy metal and punk rock guitarist. He is best known for being the rhythm guitarist with Suicidal Tendencies. He has been playing with the band since 1987, and was the only member besides Mike Muir to return to the band when they reunited. He originally played in the...

 (who was also a member of No Mercy) as their second guitarist, then making Suicidal Tendencies a five-piece band. The lineup of Muir, George, Clark, Heathcote and Herrera recorded one album
How Will I Laugh Tomorrow When I Can't Even Smile Today
How Will I Laugh Tomorrow When I Can't Even Smile Today is the third album by the American crossover thrash band Suicidal Tendencies, released on Epic Records on September 13, 1988....

 together in 1988, before Heathcote left the band a year later. Heathcote was replaced by Robert Trujillo
Robert Trujillo
Robert Trujillo is an American bassist who currently plays bass in Metallica. He has also played in Suicidal Tendencies, Infectious Grooves, Black Label Society, and with Jerry Cantrell and Ozzy Osbourne.-Career:...

. After the release of their next two albums, Controlled by Hatred/Feel Like Shit...Déjà Vu
Controlled by Hatred/Feel Like Shit...Déjà Vu
- Song notes :* "Master of No Mercy", "Waking the Dead", "Controlled by Hatred" and "Choosing My Own Way of Life" were compositions by guitarist Mike Clark's previous band No Mercy....

(1989) and Lights...Camera...Revolution!
Lights...Camera...Revolution!
Lights...Camera...Revolution! is an album by Suicidal Tendencies, which was released in 1990. It is their fourth proper studio album as their previous release, Controlled By Hatred/Feel Like Shit...Déjà Vu, is considered a double-EP of stop-gap material rather than a full-length album.This was the...

(1990), Herrera left Suicidal Tendencies in 1991 and their next album was recorded without an official replacement for him; session musician Josh Freese
Josh Freese
Josh Freese is an American session drummer and songwriter. He is a permanent member of A Perfect Circle, The Vandals, and Devo, having formerly played drums for Nine Inch Nails from late 2005 until late 2008, and for Guns N' Roses from mid-1998 to 2001. Freese has appeared on close to 300 records....

 handled the drum tracks. Herrera would eventually be replaced by Jimmy DeGrasso
Jimmy DeGrasso
Jimmy DeGrasso is an American heavy metal drummer. He is currently the drummer for F5.DeGrasso was born in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania and graduated from Liberty High School in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania in 1981....

.

After the 1994 release of Suicidal for Life
Suicidal for Life
Suicidal for Life is an album by Suicidal Tendencies, which was released in 1994. It is their sixth proper studio release as Still Cyco After All These Years is a re-recording of the band's early material...

, relationships between band members began to deteriorate and core members began to leave. This resulted in the band's split in 1995. However, Muir and Clark brought Suicidal Tendencies back together two years later and hired three new members, Dean Pleasants
Dean Pleasants
Dean Pleasants is a heavy metal guitarist. He is currently the lead guitarist for Suicidal Tendencies, replacing Rocky George after the split up in 1997. He is also a member of the Suicidal Tendencies funk metal side project Infectious Grooves. He also played with Ugly Kid Joe on their America's...

 on guitar, Josh Paul
Josh Paul (musician)
Josh "J.P." Paul is an American musician and the bassist for Daughtry. He had previously played with Suicidal Tendencies, Infectious Grooves, Everlast, Kelly Osbourne, The Veronicas and DJ Samantha Ronson.-Early life:...

 on bass and Brooks Wackerman
Brooks Wackerman
Brooks Wackerman is the current drummer for the American punk band Bad Religion and the younger brother of Chad Wackerman, formerly a member of Frank Zappa's band.-Career:...

 on drums. The reunion lineup recorded the albums Freedumb
Freedumb
-Credits:*Mike Muir – vocals*Mike Clark – guitar*Dean Pleasants – guitar*Brooks Wackerman – drums*Josh Paul – bass -Tracks 1, 2, 5 – 10, 12, 13:* Recorded at Ocean Studios and Skip Saylor Studios...

(1999) and Free Your Soul and Save My Mind
Free Your Soul and Save My Mind
Free Your Soul...and Save My Mind is the eighth studio album by hardcore punk band Suicidal Tendencies, released in 2000. To date, this is the most recent studio album to contain only original compositions by the band....

(2000), before Wackerman left the band in 2001 to join Bad Religion
Bad Religion
Bad Religion is a punk rock band that formed in Los Angeles in 1979. Their current line-up consists of Greg Graffin , Brett Gurewitz , Jay Bentley , Greg Hetson , Brian Baker and Brooks Wackerman . Gurewitz is also the founder of the label Epitaph Records, which has released almost all of the...

 and be replaced by Ron Bruner. Bassist Paul left in 2002 and was replaced by Ron's brother Steve Bruner. By 2005 Ron Bruner had left the band, and Dave Hidalgo
David Hidalgo, Jr.
David Hidalgo, Jr. is an American drummer currently playing in Social Distortion. Hidalgo replaced former drummer Scott Reeder, who had been busy with his main project Fu Manchu. Prior to joining Social Distortion, he played drums in The Drips and Suicidal Tendencies. He is the son of David...

 had taken over on drums. The most recent lineup change occurred in 2008, with Dave Hidalgo being replaced by Eric Moore as their latest drummer.

Current members


Mike Muir
Mike Muir
Mike Muir is the lead vocalist of the Venice skate punk bands Suicidal Tendencies Los Cycos and the funk rock band Infectious Grooves...

Active: 1981–present
Instruments: lead vocals
Singing
Singing is the act of producing musical sounds with the voice, and augments regular speech by the use of both tonality and rhythm. One who sings is called a singer or vocalist. Singers perform music known as songs that can be sung either with or without accompaniment by musical instruments...

Release contributions: all Suicidal Tendencies releases


Mike Clark
Mike Clark (guitarist)
Mike Clark is an American heavy metal and punk rock guitarist. He is best known for being the rhythm guitarist with Suicidal Tendencies. He has been playing with the band since 1987, and was the only member besides Mike Muir to return to the band when they reunited. He originally played in the...

Active: 1987–present
Instruments: rhythm guitar
Rhythm guitar
Rhythm guitar is a technique and rôle that performs a combination of two functions: to provide all or part of the rhythmic pulse in conjunction with singers or other instruments; and to provide all or part of the harmony, ie. the chords, where a chord is a group of notes played together...

Release contributions: all Suicidal Tendencies releases since How Will I Laugh Tomorrow When I Can't Even Smile Today
How Will I Laugh Tomorrow When I Can't Even Smile Today
How Will I Laugh Tomorrow When I Can't Even Smile Today is the third album by the American crossover thrash band Suicidal Tendencies, released on Epic Records on September 13, 1988....

(1988)


Dean Pleasants
Dean Pleasants
Dean Pleasants is a heavy metal guitarist. He is currently the lead guitarist for Suicidal Tendencies, replacing Rocky George after the split up in 1997. He is also a member of the Suicidal Tendencies funk metal side project Infectious Grooves. He also played with Ugly Kid Joe on their America's...

Active: 1997–present
Instruments: lead guitar
Lead guitar
Lead guitar is a guitar part which plays melody lines, instrumental fill passages, guitar solos, and occasionally, some riffs within a song structure...

Release contributions: all Suicidal Tendencies releases since Six the Hard Way
Six the Hard Way
Six the Hard Way is an EP released by hardcore punk band Suicidal Tendencies on November 17, 1998.The record features two live recordings and four new tracks...

(1998)


Steve Bruner
Active: 2002–present
Instruments: bass
Bass guitar
The bass guitar is a stringed instrument played primarily with the fingers or thumb , or by using a pick....

Release contributions: Year of the Cycos
Year of the Cycos
Year of the Cycos is a compilation album of bands featuring vocalist Mike Muir, released in 2008. It features new and previously released songs by Suicidal Tendencies, Infectious Grooves, Cyco Miko, and No Mercy....

(2008), No Mercy Fool!/The Suicidal Family
No Mercy Fool!/The Suicidal Family
-External links:*...

(2010)


Eric Moore
Active: 2008–present
Instruments: drums
Drum kit
A drum kit is a collection of drums, cymbals and often other percussion instruments, such as cowbells, wood blocks, triangles, chimes, or tambourines, arranged for convenient playing by a single person ....

, percussion
Percussion instrument
A percussion instrument is any object which produces a sound when hit with an implement or when it is shaken, rubbed, scraped, or otherwise acted upon in a way that sets the object into vibration...

Release contributions: Year of the Cycos (2008), No Mercy Fool!/The Suicidal Family (2010)

Guitarists

  • Mike Ball
Active: 1981–1982
Release contributions: Never played on any Suicidal Tendencies release

  • Rick Battson
Active: 1982
Release contributions: Never played on any Suicidal Tendencies release

  • Grant Estes
    Grant Estes
    Grant Estes is an American guitarist from Santa Monica, California. He was one of the guitarists for the highly influential band Suicidal Tendencies, during the band's hardcore punk era.-Suicidal Tendencies/Los Cycos:...

Active: 1982–1983
Release contributions: Suicidal Tendencies
Suicidal Tendencies (album)
-Personnel:* Mike Muir – lead vocals* Grant Estes – guitar[A]* Louiche Mayorga – bass, backing vocals* Amery Smith – drums-Production:* Glen E...

(1983)

  • Jon Nelson
    Jon Nelson (guitarist)
    Jonathan D. "Jon" Nelson is best known for playing lead guitar in the controversial punk band Suicidal Tendencies.-Early life:...

Active: 1983–1984
Release contributions: Never played on any Suicidal Tendencies release (contributed to songwriting: "Look Up (The Boys Are Back In Town)", "War Inside My Head", "You Got, I Want”, and “Human Guinea Pig”)

  • Anthony Gallo
    Anthony Gallo
    Anthony "Bob" Gallo is an American lead and rhythm guitarist. He started out at age 16 in the early eighties punk scene and progressed into heavy metal and rock. His career has spanned over 30 years, playing and recording with Megadeth drummer Nick Menza, L.A...

Active: 1984-1985
Release contributions:

  • Jason Speir
Active: 1985-1986
Release contributions: Never played on any Suicidal Tendencies release

  • Rocky George
    Rocky George
    Rocky George is an American heavy metal guitarist who has been a member of several notable musical acts. George's guitar playing career began in 1982 when he joined a local punk rock band called Pap Smear. He became lead guitarist of Suicidal Tendencies in 1984 and stayed with the band until their...

Active: 1984–1995
Release contributions: Join the Army
Join the Army
* "War Inside My Head", "Human Guinea Pig", and "You Got, I Want" were originally written by previous guitarist Jon Nelson. He traded the rights for "War Inside My Head" for a Flying V guitar after he left the band....

(1987), How Will I Laugh Tomorrow When I Can't Even Smile Today (1988), Controlled by Hatred/Feel Like Shit...Déjà Vu
Controlled by Hatred/Feel Like Shit...Déjà Vu
- Song notes :* "Master of No Mercy", "Waking the Dead", "Controlled by Hatred" and "Choosing My Own Way of Life" were compositions by guitarist Mike Clark's previous band No Mercy....

(1989), Lights...Camera...Revolution!
Lights...Camera...Revolution!
Lights...Camera...Revolution! is an album by Suicidal Tendencies, which was released in 1990. It is their fourth proper studio album as their previous release, Controlled By Hatred/Feel Like Shit...Déjà Vu, is considered a double-EP of stop-gap material rather than a full-length album.This was the...

(1990), The Art of Rebellion (1992), Still Cyco After All These Years
Still Cyco After All These Years
Still Cyco After All These Years is a 1993 compilation album by Suicidal Tendencies. It is a re-recording of the band's 1983 debut album, Suicidal Tendencies and also contains 3 additional tracks...

(1993), Suicidal for Life
Suicidal for Life
Suicidal for Life is an album by Suicidal Tendencies, which was released in 1994. It is their sixth proper studio release as Still Cyco After All These Years is a re-recording of the band's early material...

(1994)

Bassists

  • Mike Dunnigan
Active: 1981–1982
He switched to lead guitars after Mike Ball's departure in 1982
Release contributions: Never played on any Suicidal Tendencies release

  • Andrew Evans
Active: 1982
Release contributions: Never played on any Suicidal Tendencies release

  • Louiche Mayorga
    Louiche Mayorga
    Louiche Mayorga is best known for his bass playing in the Venice punk band "Suicidal Tendencies."He co-wrote many of their earlier songs including the punk classic "Institutionalized" from their 1983 debut album on Frontier, as well as" "War Inside My Head," "Possessed To Skate." and the title...

Active: 1982–1987
Release contributions: Suicidal Tendencies (1983), Join the Army (1987)

  • Ric Clayton
Active: 1988
Release contributions: Never played on any Suicidal Tendencies release

  • Bob Heathcote
Active: 1987–1989
Release contributions: How Will I Laugh Tomorrow When I Can't Even Smile Today (1988), Controlled by Hatred/Feel Like Shit...Déjà Vu (1989) – "Just Another Love Song" and both versions of "How Will I Laugh Tomorrow"

  • Robert Trujillo
    Robert Trujillo
    Robert Trujillo is an American bassist who currently plays bass in Metallica. He has also played in Suicidal Tendencies, Infectious Grooves, Black Label Society, and with Jerry Cantrell and Ozzy Osbourne.-Career:...

Active: 1989–1995
Release contributions: Controlled by Hatred/Feel Like Shit...Déjà Vu (1989), Lights...Camera...Revolution! (1990), The Art of Rebellion (1992), Still Cyco After All These Years (1993), Suicidal for Life (1994)

  • Josh Paul
    Josh Paul (musician)
    Josh "J.P." Paul is an American musician and the bassist for Daughtry. He had previously played with Suicidal Tendencies, Infectious Grooves, Everlast, Kelly Osbourne, The Veronicas and DJ Samantha Ronson.-Early life:...

Active: 1997–2001
Release contributions: Six the Hard Way (1998), Freedumb
Freedumb
-Credits:*Mike Muir – vocals*Mike Clark – guitar*Dean Pleasants – guitar*Brooks Wackerman – drums*Josh Paul – bass -Tracks 1, 2, 5 – 10, 12, 13:* Recorded at Ocean Studios and Skip Saylor Studios...

(1999), Free Your Soul and Save My Mind
Free Your Soul and Save My Mind
Free Your Soul...and Save My Mind is the eighth studio album by hardcore punk band Suicidal Tendencies, released in 2000. To date, this is the most recent studio album to contain only original compositions by the band....

(2000)

Percussionists

  • Carlos Egert
Active: 1981–1982
Release contributions: Never played on any Suicidal Tendencies release

  • Sean Dunnigan
Active: 1982
Release contributions: Never played on any Suicidal Tendencies release

  • Amery Smith
    Amery Smith
    Amery "AWOL" Smith is a drummer from Los Angeles, California. He is best known for playing drums in the Venice punk band "Suicidal Tendencies."-Early Life:...

Active: 1982–1984
Release contributions: Suicidal Tendencies (1983)

  • R. J. Herrera
    R. J. Herrera
    Ralph J. Herrera is a heavy metal drummer. He is best known for being the drummer of Suicidal Tendencies between the years of 1984 and 1991. After Suicidal Tendencies, he joined Uncle Slam, a crossover thrash band featuring ex-Suicidal members...

Active: 1984–1991
Release contributions: Join the Army (1987), How Will I Laugh Tomorrow When I Can't Even Smile Today (1988), Controlled by Hatred/Feel Like Shit...Déjà Vu (1989), Lights...Camera...Revolution! (1990), Still Cyco After All These Years (1993)

  • Jimmy DeGrasso
    Jimmy DeGrasso
    Jimmy DeGrasso is an American heavy metal drummer. He is currently the drummer for F5.DeGrasso was born in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania and graduated from Liberty High School in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania in 1981....

Active: 1992–1995
Release contributions: Suicidal for Life (1994)

  • Brooks Wackerman
    Brooks Wackerman
    Brooks Wackerman is the current drummer for the American punk band Bad Religion and the younger brother of Chad Wackerman, formerly a member of Frank Zappa's band.-Career:...

Active: 1997–2001
Release contributions: Six the Hard Way (1998), Freedumb (1999), Free Your Soul and Save My Mind (2000), Year of the Cycos (2008), No Mercy Fool!/The Suicidal Family (2010)

  • Greg Saenz
    Greg Saenz
    Greg Saenz is a drummer from Los Angeles, California, currently based in Coachella Valley. He started playing for several groups around L.A., mainly inlfuenced by british performers like John Bonham, Keith Moon and Charlie Watts, later he joined Excel where he stayed for 7 years...

Active: 2001
Release contributions: "Friends &Family", vol.2" (2001), Drums on "Chain of Hate",and "Ultra Drown"

  • Ron Bruner
Active: 2001–2004
Release contributions: Year of the Cycos (2008), No Mercy Fool!/The Suicidal Family (2010)

  • Dave Hidalgo
    David Hidalgo, Jr.
    David Hidalgo, Jr. is an American drummer currently playing in Social Distortion. Hidalgo replaced former drummer Scott Reeder, who had been busy with his main project Fu Manchu. Prior to joining Social Distortion, he played drums in The Drips and Suicidal Tendencies. He is the son of David...

Active: 2005–2008
Release contributions: Live at the Olympic Auditorium
Live at the Olympic Auditorium
Live at the Olympic Auditorium is a concert film by American rock band Suicidal Tendencies, recorded live at the Grand Olympic Auditorium in Los Angeles, 2005...

(2010)
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