Static-X

Static-X is an American industrial metal band from Los Angeles, California formed in 1994. The line-up fluctuated over the years, but always held constant with band founder, frontman, vocalist, and guitarist Wayne Static. Founders of the band were Wayne Static and original drummer for Static-X Ken Jay. The band rose to fame with their 1999 debut album “Wisconsin Death Trip” where the band’s heavy industrial metal sound found attention within the burgeoning nu metal movement of the late 1990s, with the album eventually going platinum in the United States. The band released five more albums over the course of the next decade: “Machine” in 2001, “Shadow Zone” in 2003, “Start a War” in 2005, “Cannibal” in 2007, and “Cult of Static” in 2009. Shortly after their last album’s release, the band entered a hiatus while Static worked on his solo album “Pighammer” in 2011. Static briefly reformed Static-X in 2012, using only members of his solo album’s touring band, before officially breaking up in June 2013. On November 1, 2014, Wayne Static died at the age of 48. R.I.P.

The rest of the original Static-X lineup – bassist Tony Campos, guitarist Koichi Fukuda, and drummer Ken Jay – announced on October 23, 2018, that they were reforming the band in Static’s honor, and would release Project Regeneration, their first studio album in eleven years, in 2020. They brought Edsel Dope as Xer0, as the new vocalist.