Band Line Up 2016
KILL II THIS never followed the crowd. Blending extreme metal with elements of industrial electronica, hip-hop, and even opera, they always beat their own unique musical path. Kerrang summed it up by saying;
“Kill II This set about putting the last 20 years of heavy guitar music into a blender, and arrive at a sound that puts them out as one of THE most cutting edge bands around."
Released in 1997, and mixed by the legendary Colin Richardson, the debut KILL II THIS album, "Another Cross II Bare" featured Jeff Singer (drums), Mark Mynett (Guitar) Pete Stone (Bass) and Nick Arlea (vocals). The band supported GRIP INC. and SKINLAB across Europe in June 1997, then MEGADETH on their "Cryptic Writings" European tour, with a support slot to TESTAMENT along the way.
However, it was only with their second album, 1998’s “Deviate” that the band found their own highly innovative sound. With Matt Pollock and Caroline Campbell recruited for vocal and bass duties, and Andy Sneap producing, the album was released to critical acclaim from press and fans alike. Terrorizer magazine;
“Perhaps the easiest way to describe ‘Deviate’ would be to say it's the album FAITH NO MORE would have made instead of ‘Angel Dust’, had they been Lancashire and not LA born and bred…a hyped-up supercharged electricity that maybe has only been matched on albums like ‘Pigwalk’, ‘Burn My Eyes’ or ‘Vulgar Display of Power’”
Metal Hammer's review said
"Here is an album brimming with deflowered gems; downbeat riffs that don't depress and confident grooves."
Ben Calvert replaced Jeff Singer for touring duties, with support slots to ANTHRAX, UK dates with SOULFLY, a European tour with ENTOMBED, then a UK headline tour, before heading out as sole support on SLIPKNOT’s debut European tour. Terrorizer magazine stated "Their sound crosses clever industrial style sampling with fearsome guitar. Kill II This have created a beast which is threatening yet danceable."
The band's third album, "Trinity", produced by Andy Sneap, featured guest vocals from FEAR FACTORY frontman Burton C. Bell. The band was confirmed as support to DEVIN TOWNSEND’s UK dates, followed by a U.K. tour with FEAR FACTORY, and once again SLIPKNOT in Europe.
The fourth album, 2003's “Mass. [Down.]-Sin. (Drone)” was recorded with vocalist Phil Bretnall and drummer Steve Rooney. Pete Stone returned on bass. U.K. tours with Anthrax, and European tours with TYPE O NEGATIVE and MACHINE HEAD were followed by a headline European tour.
In the Spring of 2004 Mark Mynett revealed that the fifth KILL II THIS album would be the band's last. However, plans for the swan song KILL II THIS outing took on a new direction when the album "A New Spiritual Mountain," was released under the new band name CITY OF GOD. This new outfit comprised Jeff Singer, fresh from his stints with PARADISE LOST and BLAZE, Simon Gordon, ex-XENTRIX, and Tim Preston, ex-DEARLY BEHEADED. The band didn't tour in support of this album and it seemed KILL II THIS had indeed come to an end.
In 2014 - following years of, "should we, shouldn't we," conversations between founder members Jeff Singer, Mark Mynett and Pete Stone - the band was reactivated, with Simon Gordon taking on vocal duties. The band headlined the ‘La Fiesta Du Rock’ Belgium music festival, and then set about writing new material, to be released toward the end of 2016.
