DISGRACE

Il Cattivo (vocals)

James Golf (guitars, vocals)

Leroy Brown (guitars, vocals)

King Nobody (drums)

Franco Messerschmitt (bass, vocals)



DISGRACE was founded in 1987 with a modest reason to become one of the hardest metal bands ever. In the early days there was not much success, except on couple of occasions, namely; their first 7EP in 1990 which sold 2000 copies and two years later the infamous Grey Misery LP selling five times as much. After the album one of the members (Toni Stranius 1972-2006) left the band to join XYSMA and it took couple of years for the rest of the band to pull themselves together.



1994 was the year of the change. DISGRACEs music style took a change towards rocknroll and tight punkrock. They released Vacuum Horror, Horror Vacuum MCD and it sold pretty well even though it was produced and marketed by the band itself (their own label, Crawfish Recordings). Before that DISGRACE had done three short European tours, but in the early 1995 started a new era, which continues til today.



Soon after the release of Vacuum Horror, Horror Vacuum MCD the band went back into studio. After a hectic week in the city of Pori, with producer Pentti Dassum (DEEP TURTLE), the next album Superhuman Dome was ready and later released in January 1996 by a German label Morbid Records. Right after the release, the band decided to hire Jimbo Golf to play guitar on their next European tour, a move that enabled Il Cattivo Doctore Sangria to concentrate solely on vocals.



But things didnt go too well. Morbid Records was more interested in releasing metal records and DISGRACE was more of an rocknroll kind of a band. A year after the release of Superhuman Dome DISGRACE entered into the studio once again. They had rented a mansion for two weeks to record and produce the next album If You're Looking For Trouble. The name of the record was realized, when Il Cattivo & James celebrated a hangover morning at Cattivos place. They were frustrated and hoped that watching television would bring a solution to their problem. And then, King Elvis Aaron Presley appeared on the television screen and started to sing the first lines of that famous tune.



Anyway, the record itself got great reviews and the band continues touring in Europe.



After the second tour in the Netherlands & Germany the band brought Il Cattivo back to Finland. And oh boy, he was in damn good shape. It was again time to compose some tracks, go to studio and record a new album called Turku.



The name was originally a worktitle, but after a long fight the band decided to dedicate albums name to their hometown Turku. (In fact, the album was recorded in Helsinki, but who cares). Right after the album came out and band was supposed to go on European tour with Sweatmaster, bassplayer C.C.Less decided to retire from the band after 11 years work. In panic he was replaced by Mr. Nuclear Powerplant a.k.a. A-Histus a.k.a. Cash Cow



After a while the band was again touring somewhat everlastingly. Just after the release of Turku in Scandinavia, DISGRACE was already touring in Germany and, after the record release in Europe, did two more tours. During these years the band has played more or less 300 shows in 15 different countries with bands like THE MUTANTS, BOOMHAUER, THE VOLADORAS, KOMETA, THE FLAMING SIDEBURNS, GLUECIFER, THE BURNOUTS, THE DRAGS, KING KHAN & HIS SHRINES, THE FESTERMEN, TROUBLE BOUND GOSPEL, COSMO JONES BEAT MACHINE, BRANDED WOMEN, SWEATMASTER, IMPALED NAZARENE, PUFFBALL, SATIRNINE, LOS BANDITOS, SCREAMIN' STUKAS, RODEO QUEEN, PSYCHO PUNCH, CRYPT KICKER FIVE, THE EGYPTIAN GAY LOVERS, THE COFFINSHAKERS, XYSMA, JIM JONES REVUE, THE UNTAMED etc.



After everlasting touring for the Turku album, DISGRACE decided to enter studio. After a long break, they worked with the amazing Pentti Dassum again. The result, Born Tired, was a genius and brilliant rock'n'roll album, with catchy melodies, raw rock'n'roll power and soulful music.



Right after the release, a new member Mr. Franco Messerschmitt joined to play bass, replacing the mysterious Mr. U.K.K.s half a year bass duty in DISGRACE.



Well, DISGRACE continued the world tour in 2004 after releasing the highly praised Born Tired album. After the Euro-tour 2004 Mr. Bald Revenger a.k.a. Anal Chimpanzee a.k.a. DJ Motherfukker decided to stay in Berlin instead of moving back to the almighty Finland. Fast Ola (formerly known as Oliver Lawny) replaced him, but unfortunately he hurt himself seriously in a world petting championship in Lahti 2004.



DISGRACE started to get a bit worried about the situation during the summer tour in Germany 2004, but finally they found a new guitarist Mr. Leroy Brown.



2005 band made it's latest long lenght European tour with The Mutants. After that band members have been busy with many other projects including BLACK MAGIC SIX, SELFISH, MONDAY BOX, etc.



Now in November 2010 the band is in its best fit. New album is coming out 24/11/2010 and distributed by Playground Music in Finland, Scandinavia and Estonia.



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