Vains Of Jenna—And Other Sleaze...

This is the first band Bam Margera signs to his label? Wow! That shocks me. With him being MTVs poster boy, I assumed they were metalcore or something. I just read that they replaced White Lion on the Poison/Ratt tour. That got me curious.

So I checked out some tunes, and I'm pretty shocked. They sound killer. Far from metalcore. Damn! I just ordered their two albums. Any fans here?

I'm a huge fan, their a young band from sweden and have relocated to LA living around the sunset strip area (how appropriate). Their sound is reminescent of guns n' roses circa 1986, really raw sound. Plus they have a great image. I mean its nothing new but its damn exciting hard rock from a young band. They are part of a big 80's glam metal revival wave/scene out of Sweden which has produced some great bands from the last couple of years such as Crashdiet, Hardcore Superstar, Loud N' Nasty, Innocent Rosie, Gemini Five, Babylon Bombs, Sister, Starlet Suicide, Crazy Lixx, Nasy Idols, Dirty Deeds etc. (man the list goes on forever). The pick of that bunch would have to be Crashdiet hands down who released their debut album Rest In Sleaze a couple of years ago, it is the best glam metal album of the last 15 years one for fans of Skid Row, Ratt, Guns N' Roses. Hair Metal is definately not a dead genre.

Forgot heres some links for the best new Swedish glam metal bands i mentioned:

Crashdiet (Click on the song Riot In Everyone and tell me your not blown away)
www.myspace.com/realcrashdiet

Vains Of Jenna
www.myspace.com/vainsofjenna

Hardcore Superstar
www.myspace.com/hardkoresuperstar

Starlet Suicide
www.myspace.com/starletsuicide

Crazy Lixx
www.myspace.com/crazylixxmusic

rattpoison wrote:

Crashdiet (Click on the song Riot In Everyone and tell me your not blown away)
www.myspace.com/realcrashdiet

Outstanding! Wow! This is some great stuff. And damn this CD is expensive!

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Hardcore Superstar
www.myspace.com/hardkoresuperstar

Why did I think this was some rap chick from the UK? I think I've seen this CD around here before. Good stuff. They have a lot of releases, too.

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Starlet Suicide
www.myspace.com/starletsuicide

More good music. Reminds me more of a grunge meets sleaze kind of deal. The chicks solo stuff sounds ever more like that. I dig it.

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Crazy Lixx
www.myspace.com/crazylixxmusic

I knew this band. I was wondering where I'd heard of this band from, and sadly it's from this wonderful review:

http://www.tartareandesire.com/reviews/Cracy_Lixx/Heroes_Are_Forever/3765/

They couldn't even spell the damn name right. In light of now hearing the band, I declare that review pure crap.

Eyesore wrote:

rattpoison wrote:

Crashdiet (Click on the song Riot In Everyone and tell me your not blown away)
www.myspace.com/realcrashdiet

Outstanding! Wow! This is some great stuff. And damn this CD is expensive!

Crashdiet and Hardcore Superstar are both great stuff. I was pleasantly surprised when I first heard Crashdiet's REST IN SLEAZE and found out it was released in 2005, I would've guessed that it was some long-lost recording from 1989 that had been hidden away in a vault somewhere. Sadly, the vocalist on that record (Dave Lepard) died in January of '06, though they've recently selected a new singer and are going to carry on.

Wow! The Crashdiet is good!! Wonder if their whole catalogue is as good?

Rest In Sleaze is Crashdiet's only album. The lead singer committed suicide after the album was released. They have a new singer and are recording, from what I have heard. I know they performed with their new singer at a couple of festivals as well. They do have quite a few demo tracks floating around if you know a demo collector.

Vains of Jenna is KILLER! I wouldn't say they are reminiscent of GnR, but rather of the whole 80's sleaze scene.

I have pretty much everything by all the bands you listed there. You are talking to a big fan of this style of music, however.

Another great couple of bands to check out would be Nasty Idols and Machine Gun Kelly. More great modern-era, but retro-sounding sleaze!!!


Arttie

Vains of Jenna is great.Reminds me of the good ole days

I have been on tha VAINS OF JENNA cd sice it came out...it rules...

there is actually quite a great resurgence in the whole sleaze/glam scene that makes my heart flutter....

COWBOY PROSTITUTES
CRYSTAL PISTOL
JOKER FIVE SPEED
DOG DAYS
DIRTY ANGELS
MISS CRAZY
CRASHDIET
SLUNT

and on and on.....

whoo hoo!!!

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SLUNT

Saw them open for Motorhead a few years back, Abbie what a babe!

Wargod48

NP: Armoros - Pieces

I love their cover of ROMEO VOID's "Never Say Never"

COWBOY PROSTITUTES
CRYSTAL PISTOL
JOKER FIVE SPEED
DIRTY ANGELS
MISS CRAZY
SLUNT


Have all of these as well... Don't have Dog Days yet, but I have heard VERY mixed reviews of their stuff.

The last Mr. Nasty disc is pretty cool as well.


Back on Vains Of Jenna...my buddies in Sinikil were supposed to play with them a few months back, but Vains couldn't make the show. Something about transportation problems or work visas or some such thing.


Arttie

Man, for 80s rock being my favorite genre of music, I really lost touch at some point. That annoys me! Haha. It's probably because I've never found a forum like this that actually discusses 80s rock without trashing it. I know I've tried to bring up certain bands or the whole genre up as a topic on other forums and it hits a brick wall of insults.

I forsee myself spending a lot of money on new bands in the near and distant future.

Hey, can you guys throw up some discographies for these bands, if you don't mind? I'm trying to compile a To Buy list and can't find some of these bands' info.

I will when I get some spare time.

We talk about a LOT of 80's bands on the Christian Metal Realm as well. Its pretty much all I listen to for long stretches of time. I mix in a good helping of thrash as well, but have NO USE for most death metal and nearly all black metal, so that is what I listen to.



Arttie

that DOG DAYS disc is'nt too bad....pretty much standard modern sleaze....very similar to CRYSTAL PISTOL...or JOKER FIVE SPEED.

Eyesore...on my day off this week I shall try to PM you what I feel is an all encompassing list of what (i.m.o.) are crucial sleaze/glam disc to a fan's collection.


I desperately want a copy of that CRASHDIET disc but can't bring myself to pay all that moolah.

Cool, thanks guys. No rush. My money isn't endless! Haha. Is the Dog Days CD the one listed on lala? There's only one.

By the way, Shiney, in passing along this info to others, I found this on YouTube:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QaoDpWKY0qU

A nice Dead End Jane set. That CD has really grown on me, though I think "Dirty Mary Sue" is my least favorite song on it. Haha.

Shiney...I can probably help you with CrashDiet AND a whole bunch of their demos....




Arttie

Bam just gets paid by MTV for certain things (like taking rubber bullets to the chest & playing medicine ball Dodgeball)...he's not really a posterboy. Like that big, bald dude that used to VeeJay for them (not Matt pinfield...the other one)...he hated MTV music, but working there paid the bills.

Bam is actually a huge fan of Slayer & other Metal bands. He's got a HIM obsession, and is overall a spoiled, bratty skater kid...but I don't think he cares what network airs "Jackass" & "Viva La Bam" as long as he gets paid.

Shawn Of Fire wrote:

Bam just gets paid by MTV for certain things (like taking rubber bullets to the chest & playing medicine ball Dodgeball)...he's not really a posterboy. Like that big, bald dude that used to VeeJay for them (not Matt pinfield...the other one)...he hated MTV music, but working there paid the bills.

Bam is actually a huge fan of Slayer & other Metal bands. He's got a HIM obsession, and is overall a spoiled, bratty skater kid...but I don't think he cares what network airs "Jackass" & "Viva La Bam" as long as he gets paid.

Right. I knew he dug cool bands. He's actually responsible for HIM's sudden popularity with the US goth/emo crowd. I think it's cool what he did for the band. I owned their imports and their only US release—under the name HER, because they couldn't secure rights to HIM in the US—and then he comes along and basically breaks the band in the US. Pretty cool.

But still, regardless of the bands he digs, I wouldn't have imagined a sleazy rock band from Sweden would be his first signing. And he's most definitely a posterboy for MTV. He doesn't have to bend to their motives, of course, and it's clear he hasn't, but he's a posterboy whether he likes it or not. Hehe.

Yeah, he's associated with it...but if Jackass had been on ESPN, he'd be a posterboy for them instead...

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Like that big, bald dude that used to VeeJay for them (not Matt pinfield...the other one)...he hated MTV music, but working there paid the bills.

You're talking about Iann Robinson. He's had some pretty interesting things to say about MTV. Look up some of his old interviews with Metal Sludge.

Artie...PM me, brother...with your CRASHDIET nitty gritty....

Eyesore- That DOG DAYS cd is called "Broke In Hollywood"

Got a copy on the way, looking forward to hearing it-TJ

Shiney wrote:

Artie...PM me, brother...with your CRASHDIET nitty gritty....

Eyesore- That DOG DAYS cd is called "Broke In Hollywood"

Thanks.

You want the MP3s of Crashdiet? I downloaded the album. It's killer.