Randy Piper, Chris Holmes form W.A.S. (Where Angels Suffer)

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Former W.A.S.P. trio Chris Holmes (guitar, pictured), Randy Piper (guitar) and Stet Howland (drums) are back working together.

Joined by ex-Metal Church bassist Steve Unger plus vocalist Rich Lewis, they’ve the band name of Where Angels Suffer – or W.A.S. for short!

Debut album Purgatory is due out later in the year.

Sounds interesting!

Lord of all PBR's Number of posts: 21045 Age: 41 Registration date: 2007-02-21

W.A.S.? You gotta be kidding.

I'd like to be a fly on the wall when Blackie Lawless gets wind of this. Laughing very hard

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Fat Freddy wrote:

W.A.S.? You gotta be kidding.

I'd like to be a fly on the wall when Blackie Lawless gets wind of this. Laughing very hard

Yeah, the name is really bad. Razz

Bukkake Tsunami Number of posts: 15659 Age: 40 Registration date: 2007-02-01

I heard a rumor that the original name was Where Angels Suffer Penis Disfigurement (W.A.S.P.'d.) but the record company objected after getting a cease and desist letter from the Penis Disfigurement Sufferers Association (PDSA). Blackie Lawless is their official spokesperson and sits on their board of trustees after an unfortunante cod peice mishap.

Feel free to spread that rumor.

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mini boss Number of posts: 13947 Age: 42 Registration date: 2008-08-05

This is a good example of jokes just writing themselves.

manny wrote:

This is a good example of jokes just writing themselves.

Well, they W.A.S. once in W.A.S.P.! They really W.A.S.!

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It's going to take some exceptional music to overcome that name.

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People will show up to their gigs thinking they're seeing W.A.S.P. ("I dunno, maybe the "P" fell off the poster or something!")... then they'll be pissed. Laughing

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Heart of Metal Number of posts: 2482 Age: 22 Registration date: 2007-01-23

The Blabbermouth point said that they intend to play the W.A.S.P. songs that Blackie is too afraid to play nowadays, such as 'Animal (F*ck Like A Beast)'. Presumably, that's why they have the redonkulous name. Will be interesting to see what they come up with, though.

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ITT we see the kind of reasons these players are no longer in W.A.S.P.

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Orion Crystal Ice wrote:

ITT we see the kind of reasons these players are no longer in W.A.S.P.

Because they clearly dislike Blackie?

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Because they're men pushing 50 whose only way to success apparently is to ride the dusty coattails of a band that they evidently missed the boat on what they're really all about.

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I think this is great! Wasp has sucked for awhile now anyways. Will be great to see this band when they play out.

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Fat Freddy wrote:

People will show up to their gigs thinking they're seeing W.A.S.P. ("I dunno, maybe the "P" fell off the poster or something!")... then they'll be pissed. Laughing

Think they'll 'lay the 'hilly S'ectrum any time soon, FF?

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UNCLE SAXON wrote:

Fat Freddy wrote:

People will show up to their gigs thinking they're seeing W.A.S.P. ("I dunno, maybe the "P" fell off the poster or something!")... then they'll be pissed.

Think they'll 'lay the 'hilly S'ectrum any time soon, FF?

Sure, and 'antera, 'owermad and 'iledriver will be opening!!!

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Orion Crystal Ice wrote:

Because they're men pushing 50 whose only way to success apparently is to ride the dusty coattails of a band that they evidently missed the boat on what they're really all about.

Good point.

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Bump-o for new info...

Debut album 'Purgatory' due out Oct. 30th.

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Metal Misfit wrote:

Well, they W.A.S. once in W.A.S.P.! They really W.A.S.!

Interestingly, some peeps at another forum I frequent indicate that the tunes on the "W.A.S." album are merely a collection of songs Piper has already released a few years ago under the band name "Randy Piper's Animal." Whether or not these songs were re-recorded by the "new" band or are merely the original tracks being rehashed under a new name remains unclear.

I had a CD-R of one of the Randy Piper's Animal albums a couple of years ago and it was pretty much blatant W.A.S.P. plagiarism, right down to the vocalist being a dead ringer for Blackie Lawless. I didn't think much of it so I ditched it.

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Bukkake Tsunami Number of posts: 15659 Age: 40 Registration date: 2007-02-01

A quick "googling" would prove you correct, Frodrick. Some of the song titles on the W.A.S. Purgatory album also show up on Randy Piper's 2006 Violent New Breed album. Rich Lewis is the vocalist in both bands as well.

Sleeze Roxx has a review of that album...
http://www.sleazeroxx.com/bands/animal/violent.shtml

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MetalGuy71 wrote:

A quick "googling" would prove you correct, Frodrick. Some of the song titles on the W.A.S. Purgatory album also show up on Randy Piper's 2006 Violent New Breed album. Rich Lewis is the vocalist in both bands as well.

Sleeze Roxx has a review of that album...

Interesting. I believe the R.P.A. disc I had on CD-R must've been the "900 LB. STEAM" disc mentioned in this review as the one that "sounded like sh*t," cuz boy, did it ever. It sounded like a 50th generation copy of a copy of a bad demo tape.

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4 songs are from VIOLENT NEW BREED (i have that great album on cd): VIOLENT NEW BREED, MORNING AFTER, EYE OF THE STORM and BOOM but in total their are 13 songs, still 9 are new. Not bad, because WASP last albums had less original/new tracks. I am very interested in this new proyect, i missed Chris Holmes.

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Yo, mods! You know you can merge threads, right? We use the same forum software for Shock Totem. It works well when new "same" threads are created. Just merge one to the other and no posts are lost. =)

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So to be clear, it's W.A.S. Not Was Not Was?

Laughing

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