Suicide Commando

For over twenty years, Johan Van Roy, aka Suicide Commando, has carried the dark electro heritage of acts like Klinik, Front 242 and Skinny Puppy in his heart and musical soul. Bearing these influences on his sleeve, Van Roy has turned these inspirations into superb high-octane, highly aggressive, danceable, EBM-industrial / dark electro aimed straight at club dance floors. Over the years, Suicide Commando has bombarded us with numerous club hits like See You In Hell, Desire, Hellraiser, Love Breeds Suicide, Cause of Death:Suicide, and Bind Torture Kill, turning Suicide Commando into one of the dark underground's most beloved dance acts of the last decade. Discography Critical Stage - CD (1994) Stored Images - CD (1995) Contamination - EP (1996) Construct-Destruct - CD (1998) Chromdioxyde 1 - CD (1999) Comatose Delusion - CDS (2000) Mindstrip - CD (2000) Hellraiser - CDS (2000) Love Breeds Suicide - EP (2001) Anthology - DCD (2002) Face of Death - CDS (2003) Axis Of Evil - CD (2003) Cause of Death: Suicide - CDS (2004) Godsend/Menschenfresser - CDS (2005) Bind, Torture, Kill - CD (2006) X20 Best of - box set incl. 3 CD's + live DVD (2007) Until We Die/Severed Head - 7" vinyl (2009) Die Motherfucker Die - EP (2009) Implements Of Hell - CD (2010) 1986 Johan Van Roy starts experimenting with electronic music under the name Suicide Commando. 1989 Suicide Commando releases their first tape and make their first appearance on vinyl, taking part to the Electronic compilation LP (Climax Productions). 1992 After several other tape releases including This is Hate, Crap, Industrial Rape and Go To Hell, the hypnotizing track Intercourse (originally released on the Into The Grave tape in 1991) is released on the German Rotation II compilation LP on the Kugelblitz record label. 1993 Suicide Commando releases his ninth and final tape called Electro Convulsion Therapy. In the meantime, four other tracks are released on the Induktion, Varianz Und Deren Folgen compilation CD (Kugelblitz records), including the small club hit Never Get Out. Suicide Commando also makes its first steps on stage, playing as support act for Plastic Noise Experience. 1994 Suicide Commando is signed to the German Off Beat label and releases its first full length CD Critical Stage, including club hits like Traumatize and Necrophilia and featuring Dirk Ivens from Dive as a guest vocalist on the track Where Do We Go From Here?. Several other tracks are released on different compilations during 1994 and 1995, including the club hit Save Me. 1995 Suicide Commando releases its second CD Stored Images on the Off Beat, including remixes of t.v. obsession, Intercourse, Save Me, and including new dance floor hits Murder and See You In Hell, the biggest Suicide Commando to date. 1996 Suicide Commando start their Critical Images tour, and to celebrate their 10th anniversary, Suicide Commando releases the Contamination EP, including new tracks and remixes of See You In Hell and Traumatize. This EP is also released as a limited box set of 2000 copies, including the regular EP + 3" bonus CD with old and previously unreleased material. 1997 Suicide Commando releases a new MCD "state of emergency" on the German O-files II sampler (Off Beat). Suicide Commando plays at the legendary Zillo festival in Germany in front of 5000 people. The "contamination" CD is now also released in the USA on Electric Death Trip records. This American edition includes 3 bonus tracks. 1998 Suicide Commando releases the new CD "construct-destruct" (Off Beat), including new club hits "desire" and "better off dead" Along with the new CD Suicide Commando also releases another new limited edition called "reCONSTRUCTion" (on 2500 copies only, already SOLD OUT!), including the regular CD + bonus disc offering new material and remixes from bands like :wumpscut:, Dive, plastic noise experience and Pierrepoint. Suicide Commando starts their successful "Conquering Europe tour" together with the American Velvet Acid Christ. 1999 "construct-destruct" is licensed in the US by Possessive Blindfold Recordings. The album reaches the N° 10 position in the CMJ charts. Suicide Commando releases "chromdioxyde 1", a compilation including only old & previously unreleased demo material from 1988 to 1994. The Compilation reaches No, 7 position in the DAC Suicide Commando starts working on the new "mind strip" CD. 2000 2000 without any doubt became the most successful year in Suicide Commando's career so far. In May Suicide Commando returns with a first single "comatose delusion", taken from their forthcoming album. This single brought Suicide Commando to the absolute top of the international alternative scene. Even more success gained the 2nd single "hellraiser" ! Both singles reach the N° 1 position in the German alternative charts (DAC). In October Suicide Commando finally releases their long awaited "mindstrip" album (available as a limited box set as well), which also reaches the N° 1 position in the DAC album charts. The CD also is released in the US via Metropolis and is getting an amazing response. End of 2000 Suicide Commando start their "mindstripping 2000" tour throughout Germany 2001 In 2001 Suicide Commando returns with the "love breeds suicide" EP (Dependent), containing several remixes of the song "love breeds suicide" (original version on "mindstrip") and including another new club smasher "dein herz, meine gier" Once again this release reaches the N° 1 position in the German DAC charts. 2002 After doing several more concerts and festivals across Europe, Suicide Commando returns to the studio to start working on their new album which is planned to come out in 2003. In the mean time they release the "anthology" CD, a compilation of the best and biggest Suicide Commando hits up so far, including all club hits like "hellraiser", "see you in hell", "love breeds suicide" and offering some exclusive new remixes and rare versions. A must have for all true fans! 2003 Two the "love breeds suicide" MCD, Suicide Commando returns with a brand new single entitled "face of death", which reaches number one in numerous charts (DAC, DUC, NAC ) all over Europe. The limited edition version of the single (including an extra disc with more remixes and rare versions) sells out in only 2 days ! End of the year the long awaited "axis of evil" album finally is released worldwide through Dependent (Europe) and Metropolis (USA ). The album immediately conquers the world in no time and reaches No. 1 positions all over the globe and turns out to be the best selling Suicide Commando album up to date. The limited edition of "axis of evil" (a luxurious box set with extra DVD including video clips, interview ) sells out in no time. The album was voted "best album of the year" in the legendary German alternative charts (DAC). To promote their new album Suicide Commando hit the road with the "axis of evil" tour, supported by Interlace and Tactical Sekt. This tour turns out to be their most successful tour up till today and is getting huge positive response by both press and audience. 2004 Beginning of 2004 Suicide Commando continue their 2nd part of the "axis of evil" tour which brings them to countries like Switzerland, Italy, France, Holland, Denmark, Sweden and in summer 2004 they do an extended summer festival tour with successful shows at WGT, Zillo, Castle Party, M'era Luna and Infest. In between they still manage to finish and release a new double single (cause of death:SUICIDE + one nation under god), also available as limited edition and taken from their latest "axis of evil" album. The single once again reaches the N° 1 spot in several alternative charts. 2005 In 2005 Suicide Commando finally gets back into their studio to start working on new material. The first result of this new work gets released in November 2005 as a limited double a-side single called "godsend/menschenfresser". The single gets released on Johan's brand new own label NTP (short for Noise Terror Productions), a new division of Dependent. The single is the first sign of the new album which is scheduled for early 2006. In between Suicide Commando still manages to do some more live shows and festivals throughout Europe. 2006 Early 2006 sees the release of the long awaited new studio album from Suicide Commando called "bind, torture, kill", named after the famous serial killer Dennis L. Rader aka the BTK Strangler. The album gets released in 2 editions, a regular CD edition including 11 new tracks (including a remix version of "godsend" and a special cover version of Tommi Stumpff's classic "massaker") and a special limited edition including a bonus disc, sticker and postcard. The album once again makes it to the top of several alternative charts like the DAC, BAC, REWC and was voted as "album of the month" in the German Orkus magazine. 2007 To celebrate 20 years of Suicide Commando (1986-2006), the band released a special limited box on the NTP/Dependent label. The release includes X20 Best of, X.20 Remixes, the very first Suicide Commando live DVD and the Fuck You Bitch bonus single. X20 Best of and X.20 Remixes are later released as separate discs in the US through Metropolis Records. At the end of 2007, Suicide Commando returns with Hate Me on the "Noise Terror Volume 2" sampler from NTP/Dependent. This is their last release on the NTP/Dependent label, which shut its doors in 2007. 2008 Suicide Commando starts working on brand new material for their upcoming EP and new album and continues doing several live shows all over Europe. 2009 Suicide Commando signs an exclusive European deal with the German label Out Of Line and signs a US / International deal with Metropolis Records. Suicide Commando returns with their first release in two years, a 7" vinyl EP Until We Die/Severed Head. In September 2009, Die Motherfucker Die is released, with the new album Implements Of Hell due to be released in early 2010.