Origin:	Hollywood, California, USA
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DISBANDED

Page online:	January 3, 2007
Last update/review:	August 28, 2022

Murderdolls

Invariably, whenever a band attains a certain level of success, there is all kinds of interest in any sort of side project featuring members of said band. So, when Slipknot had some down time around 2002, there was naturally a buzz surrounding bands such as Stone Sour and this band Murderdolls, which pairs former Static-X guitarist Tripp Eisen with Slipknot drummer Joey Jordison (here, as a guitarist) and featuring one Wednesday 13 on vocals, who once fronted the bizarre band known as Frankenstein Drag Queens From Planet 13. Anyway, Slipknot this isn't, as Beyond The Valley Of The Murderdolls is a punk/glam/metal romp (maybe a bit like Misfits at times, and, albeit with a much different singer, Marilyn Manson), clearly a just-for-fun-of-it record, probably not for metal purists, but maybe for those into the punkier side of metal. After touring for a couple of years the band went on hiatus in 2004, and after several years Wednesday 13 and Jordison reactivated the project with a new lineup for a second album in 2010, breaking up for good a year later.