Brokencyde
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Brokencyde is an American crunkcore
musical group from Albuquerque
, New Mexico
, founded in 2006.
, The Broken!
, in July 2007, followed by another mixtape, Tha $c3ne Mixtape (2008).
Brokencyde toured with bands such as Breathe Carolina
, The Morning Of
, Karate High School
, and Drop Dead, Gorgeous
. In July 2008, brokeNCYDE appeared on MTV
's Total Request Live
, where they performed the single "FreaXXX" on the segment "Under the Radar." They signed with Suburban Noize Records
later that summer, and released the BC13 EP on November 11, 2008 during a promotion with the retail chain Hot Topic
.
In 2008, the group performed dates on the Millionaires
-headlined "Get F$cked Up" tour, and appeared twice on "Fearless Music TV," performing "Sex Toyz" and "FreaXXX" in December 2008.
The group's first full-length release, I'm Not a Fan, But the Kids Like It, debuted at #86 on the Billboard 200
in July, 2009. Brokencyde was featured on the US Warped Tour 2009
, but left the tour in August to play featured appearances in Europe
.
In 2009, Brokencyde played dates on "The Original Gangstour" tour with Eyes Set to Kill
, And Then There Were None
, and Drop Dead, Gorgeous
. They played dates on the "Saints and Sinners Tour 2009" with Senses Fail
, Hollywood Undead
, and Haste The Day
.
contributor Michael Swaim said the band sounded like "a Slipknot-Cher duet".
British comic book writer Warren Ellis
considered Brokencyde's "FreaXXX" music video "a near-perfect snapshot of everything that’s shit about this point in the culture". A writer for the Warsaw Business Journal
attempted to describe their music: "Imagine an impassioned triceratops mating with a steam turbine, while off to the side Daft Punk and the Bee Gees beat each other to death with skillets and spatulas. Imagine the sound that would make. Just try. BrokeNCYDE is kind of like that, except it also makes you want to jab your thumbs into your eyeballs and gargle acid."
The New Musical Express
stated in a review of I'm Not a Fan, But the Kids Like It!
, that "even if I caught Prince Harry and Gary Glitter adorned in Nazi regalia defecating through my grandmother’s letterbox I would still consider making them listen to this album too severe a punishment."
August Brown of the Los Angeles Times
writes:
Crunkcore
Crunkcore is a musical genre that combines crunk hip-hop with elements of screamo...
musical group from Albuquerque
Albuquerque, New Mexico
Albuquerque is the largest city in the state of New Mexico, United States. It is the county seat of Bernalillo County and is situated in the central part of the state, straddling the Rio Grande. The city population was 545,852 as of the 2010 Census and ranks as the 32nd-largest city in the U.S. As...
, New Mexico
New Mexico
New Mexico is a state located in the southwest and western regions of the United States. New Mexico is also usually considered one of the Mountain States. With a population density of 16 per square mile, New Mexico is the sixth-most sparsely inhabited U.S...
, founded in 2006.
History
Brokencyde was founded by singers Se7en and Mikl. The name of the band supposedly originated from the idea that their music was "broken inside" due to personal problems. After the band began promoting themselves online, members Phat J and Antz joined Brokencyde. They released their debut mixtapeMixtape
A Mix Tape or Mixed Tape is a compilation of songs recorded in a specific order, traditionally onto an audio Compact Cassette.A Mix Tape, which usually reflects the musical tastes of its compiler, can range from a casually selected list of favorite songs, to a conceptual mix of songs linked by a...
, The Broken!
The Broken (album)
The Broken! is the first release by the American crunkcore group brokeNCYDE. The tracks "Jealousy", "Schizophrenia", and "I'm Sorry" were re-made for their 2009 debut I'm Not a Fan, But the Kids Like It.-Track listing:-References:...
, in July 2007, followed by another mixtape, Tha $c3ne Mixtape (2008).
Brokencyde toured with bands such as Breathe Carolina
Breathe Carolina
Breathe Carolina is an American electronic rock musical duo from Denver, Colorado, composed of David Schmitt and Kyle Even. Breathe Carolina have released three albums, one EP, and five music videos to date.-Beginnings :...
, The Morning Of
The Morning Of
The Morning Of is a pop/indie/rock band originating from Newburgh, New York. The band's first EP, Welcome Change. Goodbye Gravity, held a steady spot in the Top 50 best selling albums on Smartpunk.com for six months. They also hold a steady spot on PureVolume's Top 100, and top 10 in their pop...
, Karate High School
Karate High School
Karate High School was an American pop-punk/post-hardcore band from San Francisco, California, fronted by multi-instrumentalist and producer Paul McGuire. On March 21, 2006 the band released their debut album, Arcade Rock...
, and Drop Dead, Gorgeous
Drop Dead, Gorgeous
Drop Dead, Gorgeous is a band from Denver, Colorado. They are currently signed to Suretone Records. The band consists of frontman Danny Stillman , Kyle Browning , Jake Hansen and Danny Cooper...
. In July 2008, brokeNCYDE appeared on MTV
MTV
MTV, formerly an initialism of Music Television, is an American network based in New York City that launched on August 1, 1981. The original purpose of the channel was to play music videos guided by on-air hosts known as VJs....
's Total Request Live
Total Request Live
Total Request Live is a television series on MTV that featured popular music videos. TRL was MTV's prime outlet for music videos as the network continues to concentrate on reality-based programming. In addition to music videos, TRL featured daily guests...
, where they performed the single "FreaXXX" on the segment "Under the Radar." They signed with Suburban Noize Records
Suburban Noize Records
Suburban Noize Records, also known as "Subnoize", is an independent record label based in Burbank, California that specializes in punk rock and underground hip hop...
later that summer, and released the BC13 EP on November 11, 2008 during a promotion with the retail chain Hot Topic
Hot Topic
Hot Topic is an American retail chain specializing in music and pop culture-related clothing and accessories, as well as licensed music on CD. The majority of the stores are located in regional shopping malls. The first Hot Topic store was opened in 1988 by Orv Madden, who retired as CEO in 2000...
.
In 2008, the group performed dates on the Millionaires
Millionaires (band)
Millionaires is a group consisting of two sisters, Melissa Marie and Allison Green, from Orange County, California. The group, formed in August 2007, was widely known for mixing heavily explicit lyrics with a bubbly electropop sound. Their image and lyrics have generated considerable controversy,...
-headlined "Get F$cked Up" tour, and appeared twice on "Fearless Music TV," performing "Sex Toyz" and "FreaXXX" in December 2008.
The group's first full-length release, I'm Not a Fan, But the Kids Like It, debuted at #86 on the Billboard 200
Billboard 200
The Billboard 200 is a ranking of the 200 highest-selling music albums and EPs in the United States, published weekly by Billboard magazine. It is frequently used to convey the popularity of an artist or groups of artists...
in July, 2009. Brokencyde was featured on the US Warped Tour 2009
Warped Tour 2009
Warped Tour 2009 was the 15th installment of the annual Summer Warped Tour festival. Vans Shoes was again the tour's primary sponsor. Tour founder/organizer Kevin Lyman announced that this year's tour would feature only one main stage with bands playing 40 minutes each instead of two main stages...
, but left the tour in August to play featured appearances in Europe
Europe
Europe is, by convention, one of the world's seven continents. Comprising the westernmost peninsula of Eurasia, Europe is generally 'divided' from Asia to its east by the watershed divides of the Ural and Caucasus Mountains, the Ural River, the Caspian and Black Seas, and the waterways connecting...
.
In 2009, Brokencyde played dates on "The Original Gangstour" tour with Eyes Set to Kill
Eyes Set to Kill
Eyes Set to Kill is an American metalcore band from Tempe, Arizona. Sisters Alexia and Anissa Rodriguez, along with former vocalist Lindsey Vogt started the band in 2003. Lindsey Vogt departed the band in mid-2007 due to issues with management...
, And Then There Were None
And Then There Were None (band)
And Then There Were None is an American band from New Hampshire, currently signed to Tooth & Nail Records.-History:And Then There Were None formed in 2003 as a metalcore band, and toured across the United States in support of their highly acclaimed self-released EP "6,000 tries"...
, and Drop Dead, Gorgeous
Drop Dead, Gorgeous
Drop Dead, Gorgeous is a band from Denver, Colorado. They are currently signed to Suretone Records. The band consists of frontman Danny Stillman , Kyle Browning , Jake Hansen and Danny Cooper...
. They played dates on the "Saints and Sinners Tour 2009" with Senses Fail
Senses Fail
Senses Fail is an American post-hardcore band from Ridgewood, New Jersey. Formed in 2002, the line up initially consisted of vocalist Buddy Nielsen, drummer Dan Trapp, guitarists Dave Miller and Garrett Zablocki and being completed by bassist Mike Glita. The band quickly issued their debut EP, From...
, Hollywood Undead
Hollywood Undead
Hollywood Undead is an American rap rock band from Los Angeles, California. They released their debut album, Swan Songs, on September 2, 2008, and their live CD/DVD Desperate Measures, on November 10, 2009. Their second studio album, American Tragedy, was released April 5, 2011...
, and Haste The Day
Haste the Day
Haste the Day was an American Christian metalcore band signed with Solid State Records that was formed in Carmel, Indiana 2001. Their band is named after a lyric in the hymn "It Is Well With My Soul." The band released their debut release, an extended play titled That They May Know You, in 2002,...
.
Critical reception
Brokencyde is generally panned on every occasion possible by critics and music fans alike. "Thrash Magazine" has called them "a mockery to the world of music". Cracked.comCracked.com
Cracked.com is a humor website that was spun off the last attempt to revive Cracked magazine. It began in its current form in 2007.-Attempted relaunch of Cracked:...
contributor Michael Swaim said the band sounded like "a Slipknot-Cher duet".
British comic book writer Warren Ellis
Warren Ellis
Warren Girard Ellis is an English author of comics, novels, and television, who is well-known for sociocultural commentary, both through his online presence and through his writing, which covers transhumanist themes...
considered Brokencyde's "FreaXXX" music video "a near-perfect snapshot of everything that’s shit about this point in the culture". A writer for the Warsaw Business Journal
Warsaw Business Journal
Warsaw Business Journal is an English-language weekly newspaper based in Warsaw, Poland and owned by Valkea Media. It covers business, economics, politics, finance, real estate, stock markets, entertainment, technology and culture. Since 1994 it has been Poland's only business weekly in English....
attempted to describe their music: "Imagine an impassioned triceratops mating with a steam turbine, while off to the side Daft Punk and the Bee Gees beat each other to death with skillets and spatulas. Imagine the sound that would make. Just try. BrokeNCYDE is kind of like that, except it also makes you want to jab your thumbs into your eyeballs and gargle acid."
The New Musical Express
NME
The New Musical Express is a popular music publication in the United Kingdom, published weekly since March 1952. It started as a music newspaper, and gradually moved toward a magazine format during the 1980s, changing from newsprint in 1998. It was the first British paper to include a singles...
stated in a review of I'm Not a Fan, But the Kids Like It!
I'm Not a Fan, But the Kids Like It!
I'm Not a Fan, But the Kids Like It! is the debut album by the American crunkcore group Brokencyde.-Reception:The album debuted at number 86 on the Billboard 200 with over 6,000 copies sold in the first week....
, that "even if I caught Prince Harry and Gary Glitter adorned in Nazi regalia defecating through my grandmother’s letterbox I would still consider making them listen to this album too severe a punishment."
August Brown of the Los Angeles Times
Los Angeles Times
The Los Angeles Times is a daily newspaper published in Los Angeles, California, since 1881. It was the second-largest metropolitan newspaper in circulation in the United States in 2008 and the fourth most widely distributed newspaper in the country....
writes:
"This 'Albucrazy'-based band has done for MySpaceMySpaceMyspace is a social networking service owned by Specific Media LLC and pop star Justin Timberlake. Myspace launched in August 2003 and is headquartered in Beverly Hills, California. In August 2011, Myspace had 33.1 million unique U.S. visitors....
emoEmoEmo is a style of rock music and its associated subcultureEmo may also refer to:- Businesses :* Emo , an Irish oil company and filling station chain* Emo Speedway, a racetrack in Emo, Ontario...
what some think Soulja BoySoulja Boy Tell 'EmDeAndre Cortez Way , better known by his stage name Soulja Boy Tell 'Em, or simply Soulja Boy, is an American rapper, record producer, actor, entrepreneur, and internet personality....
did for hip-hop: turn their career into a kind of macro-performance artPerformance artIn art, performance art is a performance presented to an audience, traditionally interdisciplinary. Performance may be either scripted or unscripted, random or carefully orchestrated; spontaneous or otherwise carefully planned with or without audience participation. The performance can be live or...
that exists so far beyond the tropes of ironyIronyIrony is a rhetorical device, literary technique, or situation in which there is a sharp incongruity or discordance that goes beyond the simple and evident intention of words or actions...
and sincerity that to ask 'are they kidding?' is like trying to peel an onion to get to a perceived central core that, in the end, does not exist and renders all attempts to reassemble the pieces futile."
Members
- Steven (David) Gallegos ("Se7en") – lead vocals
- Michael Shea ("Mikl") – clean vocals
- Julian McLellan ("Phat J") – keyboards, synthesizers, programming, vocals
- Anthony Trujillo ("Antz") – programming, fog machine, lights, backing vocals
Albums
| Year | Title | Label | Release date |
| 2009 | I'm Not a Fan, But the Kids Like It! I'm Not a Fan, But the Kids Like It! I'm Not a Fan, But the Kids Like It! is the debut album by the American crunkcore group Brokencyde.-Reception:The album debuted at number 86 on the Billboard 200 with over 6,000 copies sold in the first week.... |
Suburban Noize Suburban Noize Records Suburban Noize Records, also known as "Subnoize", is an independent record label based in Burbank, California that specializes in punk rock and underground hip hop... |
June 16, 2009 |
| 2010 | Will Never Die Will Never Die Dave Wedge, writing for the Boston Herald, referred to the album as a "snotty, ADD-riddled batch of Auto-Tuned crunkcore," singling out "the painfully embarrassing ballad 'My Gurl' and the bad reggae of 'High Timez.'"-Track listing:... |
BreakSilence | November 9, 2010 |
| 2011 | Guilty Pleasure Guilty Pleasure (Brokencyde album) -Personnel:* Mike KumagaiBrokencyde* Se7en – screamed vocals, rap vocals* Mikl – clean vocals* Phat J – keyboards, synthesizers, programming, death growl, rap vocals* Antz – rhythm production, beats- References :... |
Suburban Noize Suburban Noize Records Suburban Noize Records, also known as "Subnoize", is an independent record label based in Burbank, California that specializes in punk rock and underground hip hop... |
November 8, 2011 |
Mixtapes
| Year | Title | Label | Release date |
| 2007 | The Broken! The Broken (album) The Broken! is the first release by the American crunkcore group brokeNCYDE. The tracks "Jealousy", "Schizophrenia", and "I'm Sorry" were re-made for their 2009 debut I'm Not a Fan, But the Kids Like It.-Track listing:-References:... |
Self-released | July 7, 2007 |
| 2008 | Tha $c3n3 Mixtape | Self-released | 2008 |
| 2011 | DJ Sku Presents: BrokeNCYDE Vol. 1 DJ Sku Presents: BrokeNCYDE Vol. 1 DJ Sku Presents: BrokeNCYDE Vol. 1 is a Mixtape by the crunkcore group Brokencyde, it was released for free in 2011.There is guest performances on the mixtape by Klassik and Rise and had the song Haterz Make Us Famous beingreleased prior the entire album release as promotional release of the... |
Self-released | March 30, 2011 |
Extended plays
| Year | Title | Label | Release date |
| 2008 | BC13 BC13 -Track listing:-Personnel:Brokencyde*Se7en – screamed vocals, rap vocals, production*Mikl – clean vocals*Phat J – keyboards, synthesizers, programming death growls*Antz – rhythm production, beats... |
Self-released | March 27, 2008 |
| 2008 | BC13 Mix BC13 Mix -Track listing:-Personnel:Brokencyde*Se7en – unclean vocals, rap vocals, production*Mikl – clean vocals*Phat J – keyboards, synthesizers, programming death growls*Antz – rhythm production, beats... |
Self-released | April 28, 2008 |
| 2008 | BC13 EP BC13 EP BC13 EP is Brokencyde's third EP but is actually their first to be released on a record label.-Track listing:-Personnel:Brokencyde*Se7en – unclean vocals, rap vocals, production*Mikl – clean vocals... |
Break Silence | October 21, 2008 |