Thunderdikk is a hard rock

Hard rock

Hard rock is a loosely defined genre of rock music which has its earliest roots in mid-1960s garage rock, blues rock and psychedelic rock...

 band from Los Angeles, California

Los Angeles, California

Los Angeles , with a population at the 2010 United States Census of 3,792,621, is the most populous city in California, USA and the second most populous in the United States, after New York City. It has an area of , and is located in Southern California...

 formed in 2007.

Biography

Thunderdikk is fronted by lead singer, Dikk Thunder. According to Dikk, the band was formed "so people can let loose, dance and get crazy. When I called the other guys and told them the band was called Thunderdikk and the songs were about girls, partying and rock and roll, they jumped on it." The band claims Guns N' Roses

Guns N' Roses

Guns N' Roses is an American hard rock band, formed in Hollywood, Los Angeles, California, in 1985. The band has released six studio albums, three EPs, and one live album...

 and AC/DC

AC/DC

AC/DC are an Australian rock band, formed in 1973 by brothers Malcolm and Angus Young. Commonly classified as hard rock, they are considered pioneers of heavy metal, though they themselves have always classified their music as simply "rock and roll"...

 as major influences.

In reviewing their 2008 debut EP, Rock Out With Your Dikk Out, Classic Rock Magazine

Classic Rock (magazine)

Classic Rock is a British magazine dedicated to the radio format of classic rock, published by Future Publishing, who are also responsible for its "sister" publication Metal Hammer. Although firmly focusing on key bands from the 1960s through early 1990s, it also includes articles and reviews of...

 called Thunderdikk "clearly the greatest rock band to emerge from LA since Van Halen

Van Halen

Van Halen is an American hard rock band formed in Pasadena, California, in 1972. The band has enjoyed success since the release of its debut album, Van Halen, . As of 2007 Van Halen has sold 80 million albums worldwide and has had the most #1 hits on the Billboard Mainstream Rock chart...

," calling their "super sonic cock'n'roll equal parts Buckcherry

Buckcherry

Buckcherry is an American rock band from Los Angeles, California formed in 1995. The band released two albums, Buckcherry and Time Bomb , before partially dissolving in the summer of 2002. In 2005, lead vocalist Josh Todd and lead guitarist Keith Nelson reformed Buckcherry and released a new album...

 and Ron Jeremy

Ron Jeremy

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."

The band plays regularly in the greater Los Angeles area.

Thunderdikk refers to their fans as "Dikkheads."

Media Appearances

The band is perhaps best known for appearing on an episode of Oxygen Network's The Bad Girls Club

The Bad Girls Club

Bad Girls Club is an American reality television series created by Jonathan Murray for Oxygen. The show centers on seven mischievous and rebellious women from different backgrounds and personalities who have a number of psychological and behavioral problems. They are introduced to the show to...

. In Season 4

The Bad Girls Club (season 4)

Bad Girls Club 4 is the fourth season of the Oxygen reality television series, The Bad Girls Club. The fourth season was also the last season to film in Los Angeles, California until season six, which filmed in Hollywood, California....

, Episode 6, entitled "Paul and Kate Plus Hate," the Bad Girls attended a Thunderdikk concert at The Viper Room in West Hollywood, California

West Hollywood, California

West Hollywood, a city of Los Angeles County, California, was incorporated on November 29, 1984, with a population of 34,399 at the 2010 census. 41% of the city's population is made up of gay men according to a 2002 demographic analysis by Sara Kocher Consulting for the City of West Hollywood...

. The appearance culminated with Bad Girl Lexie getting booed offstage after grabbing the microphone.

Guitar player Sleaze Paladino has been seen as a recurring character on G4's

G4 (TV channel)

G4, also known as G4 TV, is an American cable- and satellite-television channel originally geared primarily toward young adult viewers, originally based on the world of video games...

 X-Play

X-Play

X-Play is a TV program about video games, known for its reviews and comedy skits...

.

Thunderdikk's music has been heard on USA Network's

USA Network

USA Network is an American cable television channel launched in 1971. Once a minor player in basic cable, the network has steadily gained popularity because of breakout hits like Monk, Psych, Burn Notice, Royal Pains, Covert Affairs, White Collar, Monday Night RAW, Suits, and reruns of the various...

 Burn Notice

Burn notice

A burn notice is an official statement issued by one intelligence agency to other agencies. It states that an individual or a group is unreliable for one or more reasons...

, episode #413 "Eyes Open."

Band members

• Dikk Thunder - vocals
• Sleaze "Bag" Paladino - lead guitar
• Johnny Razor - rhythm guitar
• Mickey Brunswick - bass guitar
• Snake "Skin" Paladino - drums.

Rock Band Network

Thunderdikk's is part of Harmonix'

Harmonix Music Systems

Harmonix Music Systems is an American video game development company based in Cambridge, Massachusetts in the United States...

 Rock Band Network

Rock Band Network

The Rock Band Network is a downloadable content service designed by Harmonix Music Systems with the help of Microsoft to allow musical artists and record labels to make their music available as playable tracks for the Rock Band series of rhythm video games, starting with Rock Band 2...

. In an interview with G4TV.com, the band estimated that it would take them over 70 hours to get their song "Bra Off Party On" programmed for Rock Band download. In May 2010, "Bra Off Party On" was made available for download on the Xbox 360

Xbox 360

The Xbox 360 is the second video game console produced by Microsoft and the successor to the Xbox. The Xbox 360 competes with Sony's PlayStation 3 and Nintendo's Wii as part of the seventh generation of video game consoles...

version of the Rock Band Network.

Bra Off Party On (2009)

1. Bra Off Party On
2. Ocho (Eighth Wonder Of The World)
3. Hot Zombie Fuck

Magnum Love (2011)

1. Magnum Love
2. I Am The Thunderfukker
3. The Dikk Abides (If The Ladies Provide)
4. Bad Hands
5. Bra Off Party On
6. Love Fight
7. Sister Dolores
8. Nightfire
9. Route 69
10. Hot Zombie Fuck
11. Ride My Lightning
12. Ocho (Eighth Wonder Of The World)
13. My Name Is Dikk

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