Davey Suicide

Hailing from Hollywood, California, heavy rock outfit Davey Suicide is back with their fourth full-length album, Rock Aint Dead. The band, which features Davey Suicide along with Niko Gemini, Derek Obscura, & Marton Veress distills rock, industrial, and punk into anthems that are as corrosive as they are catchy. “Rock fans haven’t gone anywhere, they just need a reason to fall in love again,” Suicide exclaims.

Formed in 2010, Suicide played a few shows in Hollywood, California before garnering the attention of labels and the former manager of Linkin Park. Armed with the recordings that later became the Davey Suicide LP, by early 2012, Suicide signed a record deal with Standby Records. By the summer of 2012, the band started extensively touring. From 2012-2015, Suicide completed 16 tours, over 330 shows (with the likes of Static-X, Combichrist, Wednesday 13, Jeffree Star, Twiztid, Ill Nino, Orgy, New Years Day,  William Control) and put out 3 releases including the Put Our Trust in Suicide EP (Nov 2012), the self-titled Davey Suicide LP (March 2013), and the World Wide Suicide LP (September 2014).

Along the way, Suicide gained notable press with songs “Generation Fuck Star” and “Kids of America” by Kerrang Magazine as one of the Top 50 Rockstars in the World, Alternative Press’ 100 Bands You Need to Know, Revolver Magazine’s Ones to Watch, and numerous features in Big Cheese, Outburn, Substream, Scuzz TV & Blank TV.

Friction between Suicide and their record label started surfacing after the release of World Wide Suicide in September 2014 and several contractual breaches by the record company.  In the spring of 2015, Suicide and Standby locked horns in litigation over the rights of Suicide’s albums. After a year and a half of litigating with little help from the courts, Suicide released a tell-all video depicting the details of what the band had gone through with the label in August of 2016. The tell-all video went viral and spun the music community into a media circus.  In days, the video amassed over 1.3 million views, and reaching 3 million people.  Shortly after, an emergency hearing was called by the label.  The lawsuit got settled the day of the hearing in exchange for the viral post being removed from Facebook. In addition to a settlement to Suicide, he regained his freedom and music rights were granted back.

In August 2016, Suicide released the empowering single, “Rise Above” which got added to Kerrang TV, Scuzz TV and Kerrang Radio’s rotation.  “Rise Above” symbolized freedom, a new life for the band and became the first single off their third studio album entitled, Made From Fire. On September 16, 2016, Davey Suicide’s catalogue was re-released on iTunes and all digital outlets by Suicide under the name AntiSystem Records.

Made From Fire, the third studio LP, was released on March 24, 2017 and charted on Billboard.  The album peaked at #3 on Top Heatseakers, #6 on Top Hard Rock, #14 on Top Independent and #76 on the Top 200.  Suicide exclaims, “all of this adversity tested us and forced us to learn how to survive.  It could have ended us, but instead, we’ve created our most exciting collection of material to date.”

On Jan 24, 2020, Davey Suicide released their fourth studio album, Rock Aint Dead, including Singles “Medicate Me” feat. Telle Smith (The Word Alive), “Animal” feat. Gustav Wood (Young Guns) and “Addict” feat. Hyro the Hero among other heart-pumping deep cuts. This undeniable rock album, crashes in like an atom bomb, keeps you on the edge of your seat, and gives the listener a mixture of Industrial, Nu Metal, and Hard Rock, and takes it somewhere new and exciting. After the dust settles, this fourth studio album should solidify Davey Suicide as one of the biggest bands to watch in 2020 and beyond.