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Dogsflesh were formed in Redcar on Teesside, by guitarist Rob Moore during May 1982, where he recruited fellow members, Perky on Drums, Jim on bass and Marty on vocals.
The band played only a handful of gigs together around the Teesside area, the most namely of which was a support slot to GBH at Middlesbrough's Rock Garden. The band also recorded a three track demo in November 1982, with tracks called Never Give In, Mad Dog & Destroy.
Perky was replaced on the drums by John Lavender in January 1983 and the band played the Swan Hotel Ballroom supporting the UK Subs in March of that year.
The next changes came, when Rob moved to Stockton and replaced Jim and Marty with Tim Whitfield on Bass and John McQuade on vocals.
The band practiced relentlessly recording new material, which was heavily influenced by the likes of Discharge, GBH, The English Dogs, Motorhead and Iron Maiden. They began playing local gigs around the Teeside, area and built up a massive fan base of both punks and skinheads with their anthem aptly named 'Mad Punks & Psycho Skins'.
The band continued writing new material and playing gigs on both their home turf and further away where they were not as widely known, supporting bands like The Angelic Upstarts,The Anti Nowhere League, GBH & Discharge, The English Dogs and, for the first time with The Exploited at the City Hall in Carlisle where they were also very well recieved.
In the September of 1984 the band felt that they needed to improve their standard and quality of music and recruited Nigel Johnson (Nigsy) formerly of another Teesside based punk band called The Filth as lead guitarist.
With metallic riffs, punk image and vocals, the band had once again stepped up a league and were also attracting a lot of heavy metal fans at their gigs, along with their loyal followers of punks and skins.
The band recorded a four track demo at Offbeat Studio's in Leeds in February 1985 with tracks called Fast Living Boy, Out My Head, Bloody Road to Death and their anthem Mad Punks And Psycho Skins.
Further gigs followed supporting bands like Discharge, UK Subs, The English Dogs and The Exploited at The Beer Keller in Leeds. Further support gigs followed during the summer of that year with Broken Bones and also with GBH.
The band split up soon after with Nigsy quitting the band wanting to develop another project and a different style of music and soon after John Lavender also quit.
After 20 years apart the 4 main members, Rob Moore (Guitar), Tim Whitfield (Bass), John McQuade (Vocals) and John Lavender (Drums) returned to the studio to record a 4 track EP called The Threat Remains and also a live album, recorded at Wakefield and this was followed up with numerous shows around the UK and the bands first European dates. John Lavender quit the band again in 2006 and he was replaced by Richie Pendlington, further UK dates followed and the recording of the bands first full length studio album called Vision Of Hell which has received numerous glowing reviews. To promote the new album the band embarked on its first full European tour, covering Czech, Slovakia, Italy, Austria and France, this was followed up in March 2007 by the bands first tour of USA where again the band were very well received. In 2008 Richie quit the band and was replaced on drums by Greg Newton and also in 2008 Jon had to quit the band suddenly due to the death of his long term partner.
The band decided that they wanted to continue as a three piece, with Rob taking over on lead vocals and they began to write new material which again they took on the road, playing mainly European shows and in May 2010 the band recorded their latest album Revival of Species. Further UK, European shows are to follow and they return to USA in March 2011.
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