Jason Popson
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Jason Popson is best known for his eleven years as a singer in the band Mushroomhead
, during which time he was known by the stage name J-Mann. He was identified by his white face paint with black accents resembling a zombie-like mime or the face paint worn in the movie Dead Presidents
.
's new studio album Beautiful Stories For Ugly Children
, it has been revealed in an interview with Mushroomhead's lead singer Jeffrey Nothing that he will no longer be on the album. No reason has been given, but speculation is that it is one of the reasons that the album was delayed multiple times. Popson most recently performed with Mushroomhead for the songs Before I Die, Solitaire/Unraveling, and Born of Desire for the 17th Anniversary Halloween Show on October 30, 2010.
Popson is an actor and musician that has been involved with the industry since the 1990s. It's been hinted lyrically and in vague interviews that he was raised an only-child by a single parent — his mother — following the departure of his father from his life at a young age. However, Popson later regained a relationship with his father, which played a pivotal role in him leaving Mushroomhead.
Popson is considered a method actor, whereas he embodies the lives of those he emulates. Some even speculate that he takes it too far with imitating certain celebrities lives. Often burring the line between fantasy and reality.
Popson's father, John, died in Sept. 2006 and in memory of his father, he performed a concert at Peabody's Down Under in Cleveland, Ohio on Sept. 29, 2006. The concert acted as a benefit for his father's funeral, and featured Popson performing songs from many of his previous and current bands.
Popson is now in a groove metal band with former Strapping Young Lad
/Death drummer Gene Hoglan
called Pitch Black Forecast
which also features Robert Reinard on guitar and Craig Martini recording studio bass. Martini performed in PBF's inaugural shows, but was then replaced by Steve Rauckhorst for live shows. The band also added guitarist Tom Shafner to its lineup. Pitch Black Forecast was formerly known as Absentee and the group's first release was on Popson's Melvins tribute album — released through his record label Fractured Transmitter — titled "We Reach: The Melvins" when the band performed a cover of the song "Revolve." New PBF material has said to be in the works, but a release date has yet to be announced.
Popson's newest project, titled Scelestus , released an EP through Megaforce Records on May 10. The metal project also features Steve "Skinny" Felton of Mushroomhead and Tommy Church from The Autumn Offering and Tenafly Viper. An LP is said to be in the works, but no official release date or confirmation has been reported. Also reportedly in the works is a new Pitch Black Forecast EP, but nothing confirmed.
Popson participates in various side-projects, including:
Other tracks
"Sew the Seed"
"An eye for an eye"
"Restitution"
"Tear gas and gas masks"
for the 2004 Philadelphia Film Festival
. The film is an improvised acclaimed thriller. Popson plays the role of Franklin, an employee at 'Dream Control' who gets trapped in a clients dream along with a co-worker.
Mushroomhead
Mushroomhead is an American industrial metal band from Cleveland, Ohio. Formed in 1993 in Cleveland Warehouse District, the band's music can be described as a synthesis of alternative music, heavy metal, and electro-industrial...
, during which time he was known by the stage name J-Mann. He was identified by his white face paint with black accents resembling a zombie-like mime or the face paint worn in the movie Dead Presidents
Dead Presidents
Dead Presidents is a 1995 American crime film written by Michael Henry Brown and also written, produced and directed by the Hughes brothers , starring Larenz Tate, Keith David, Chris Tucker, Freddy Rodriguez, N'Bushe Wright and Bokeem Woodbine...
.
Biography
Popson quit the Mushroomhead in mid-2004 due to being overworked and his father being ill. Though it was previously confirmed that Popson would be featured on MushroomheadMushroomhead
Mushroomhead is an American industrial metal band from Cleveland, Ohio. Formed in 1993 in Cleveland Warehouse District, the band's music can be described as a synthesis of alternative music, heavy metal, and electro-industrial...
's new studio album Beautiful Stories For Ugly Children
Beautiful Stories for Ugly Children (album)
Beautiful Stories for Ugly Children is the seventh studio album by industrial metal band Mushroomhead. The album was released on September 28, 2010 by Megaforce Records. The first single from the album is the song, "Come On" which was released on August 16, 2010.On August 31, 2010, "Come On" was...
, it has been revealed in an interview with Mushroomhead's lead singer Jeffrey Nothing that he will no longer be on the album. No reason has been given, but speculation is that it is one of the reasons that the album was delayed multiple times. Popson most recently performed with Mushroomhead for the songs Before I Die, Solitaire/Unraveling, and Born of Desire for the 17th Anniversary Halloween Show on October 30, 2010.
Popson is an actor and musician that has been involved with the industry since the 1990s. It's been hinted lyrically and in vague interviews that he was raised an only-child by a single parent — his mother — following the departure of his father from his life at a young age. However, Popson later regained a relationship with his father, which played a pivotal role in him leaving Mushroomhead.
Popson is considered a method actor, whereas he embodies the lives of those he emulates. Some even speculate that he takes it too far with imitating certain celebrities lives. Often burring the line between fantasy and reality.
Popson's father, John, died in Sept. 2006 and in memory of his father, he performed a concert at Peabody's Down Under in Cleveland, Ohio on Sept. 29, 2006. The concert acted as a benefit for his father's funeral, and featured Popson performing songs from many of his previous and current bands.
Popson is now in a groove metal band with former Strapping Young Lad
Strapping Young Lad
Strapping Young Lad was a Canadian extreme metal band formed by Devin Townsend in Vancouver, British Columbia, in 1994. The band started as a one-man studio project; Townsend played most of the instruments on the 1995 debut album, Heavy as a Really Heavy Thing...
/Death drummer Gene Hoglan
Gene Hoglan
Eugene "Gene" Victor Hoglan II is an American drummer. He is acclaimed for his creativity in drum arrangements, including usage of odd devices for percussion effects and his trademark lengthy double-kick drum rhythms...
called Pitch Black Forecast
Pitch Black Forecast
Pitch Black Forecast is a Groove Metal supergroup formed in 2005 with a lineup consisting of ex-Mushroomhead frontman Jason Popson and ex-Strapping Young Lad drummer Gene Hoglan and Integrity bassist Steve Rauckhorst. Formed in Ohio back in 2005 under the name Absentee...
which also features Robert Reinard on guitar and Craig Martini recording studio bass. Martini performed in PBF's inaugural shows, but was then replaced by Steve Rauckhorst for live shows. The band also added guitarist Tom Shafner to its lineup. Pitch Black Forecast was formerly known as Absentee and the group's first release was on Popson's Melvins tribute album — released through his record label Fractured Transmitter — titled "We Reach: The Melvins" when the band performed a cover of the song "Revolve." New PBF material has said to be in the works, but a release date has yet to be announced.
Popson's newest project, titled Scelestus , released an EP through Megaforce Records on May 10. The metal project also features Steve "Skinny" Felton of Mushroomhead and Tommy Church from The Autumn Offering and Tenafly Viper. An LP is said to be in the works, but no official release date or confirmation has been reported. Also reportedly in the works is a new Pitch Black Forecast EP, but nothing confirmed.
Popson participates in various side-projects, including:
- Pitch Black ForecastPitch Black ForecastPitch Black Forecast is a Groove Metal supergroup formed in 2005 with a lineup consisting of ex-Mushroomhead frontman Jason Popson and ex-Strapping Young Lad drummer Gene Hoglan and Integrity bassist Steve Rauckhorst. Formed in Ohio back in 2005 under the name Absentee...
- In Cold Blood
- Integrity 2000Integrity (band)Integrity is a metallic hardcore band formed in 1988. Their lyrical themes include religion, the supernatural, mental illness, individualism, and the occult.- Discography :*Harder They Fall - Demo cassette - 1989...
- Crossfader
- AM Factory
- Rape Whistle
- Lost Vegas
- State of Conviction
- Unified Culture
- (216)
- The Alter BoysThe Alter BoysThe Alter Boys are an American band from Ohio. The band includes members of the bands Dog Fashion Disco, Polkadot Cadaver, Unified Culture, Mudfoot, Original Pranksta, and Mushroomhead. Also featured in the band was Ryan Dunn of the television series Jackass. They play in various musical styles,...
- 10,000 Cadillacs
- Bitch Wrangler
- Scelestus
Mushroomhead
- MushroomheadMushroomhead (album)Mushroomhead is the first album from industrial metal band Mushroomhead. Released independently in Cleveland, Ohio in 1995. Some songs have been remastered on XX. Many of the songs contain samples from movies. The album was repressed in 2002 along with Superbuick and M3 with alternate artwork,...
(1995) - SuperbuickSuperbuickSuperbuick is the second independently released album from industrial metal band Mushroomhead. The album was released in 1996. Most of the songs were later remastered on XX which was initially released by Eclipse Records, then through Universal Records after some slight modifications and two...
(1996) - Multimedia Remix (1996)
- Remix 2000Remix 2000Remix 2000 was the re-release of the Multimedia Remix album by Mushroomhead from 1997, featuring a few new tracks and without the videos from the original release...
(2002) - M3M3 (album)M3 is the third album released by the industrial metal band Mushroomhead. It was released in 1999 on their own label. The songs Before I Die, Solitaire/Unraveling, Xeroxed and Born of Desire were later included on both the Eclipse Records and Universal Records versions of XX in 2001.-Track...
(1999) - XXXX (album)XX is the fourth major label album by industrial metal band Mushroomhead, released in 2001. Originally released through Eclipse Records, where Mushroomhead took classic tracks and re-recorded them. XX was entirely re-recorded and re-released on Universal Records later in the year...
(2001) - XIIIXIII (album)XIII is the fifth major label album by industrial metal band Mushroomhead, released in 2003. The album debuted at No. 40 on the Billboard 200 and sold 400,000 copies worldwide...
(2003)
10,000 Cadillacs
- Reap The Whirlwind (1999)
- Be My Guide EP (2000)
(216)
- (216)/Schnauzer (1997)
- Two One Six (1998)
- Theme Song (Individual song released on Kingsbury Run Compilation album in 2000)
AM Factory
(Only one song ever released, which was included on the Mushroomhead Inc. Sampler album)- "Deuce Balloon"
Lost Vegas
(only two songs have been released)- "All Bets Down"
- "It's Not Unusual" (Tom Jones Cover)
Rape Whistle
(only three songs have been released)- "Playmate of the Year"
- "SKS"
- "Crowd Extermination"
Crossfader
(Only five songs were released, one of which was included on the Kingsbury Run Compilation Album)- "Death is certain...Life is not" (2000)
Other tracks
"Sew the Seed"
"An eye for an eye"
"Restitution"
"Tear gas and gas masks"
Bitch Wrangler
(No official album release. These three songs are posted on the band's Myspace page)- "Ballad of Glenn Schwartz"
- "Masochist"
- "Sycamore"
State of Conviction
- Thoughts Light Fires (1996)
- A Call to Arms (1997) (2004 re-release through FTRC)
Unified Culture
- Funkcore (1994)
- To Know What's Up...You Have To Be Down (1995)
Pitch Black Forecast
- AbsenteeAbsentee (album)Absentee is Pitch Black Forecast's debut CD featuring backing vocals from Randy Blythe of Lamb of God.-Track listing:All tracks by Pitch Black Forecast except where noted#"Atonement" – 3:10#"Dialtone" – 3:33...
(2008) - TBA (2011)
Kriadiaz
(only three songs have been released)- "Dogs of Doom Stoner Funeral"
- "Lepers & Liars"
- "Wake Us"
Filmography
Popson acted in a short film called Client 3815 with Ryan DunnRyan Dunn
Ryan Matthew Dunn was an American reality television personality and daredevil best known for being a member of the Jackass and Viva La Bam crew. He hosted Homewrecker and Proving Ground...
for the 2004 Philadelphia Film Festival
Philadelphia Film Festival
The Philadelphia Film Festival is held annually in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Until 2009 it was generally held during the first weeks of April....
. The film is an improvised acclaimed thriller. Popson plays the role of Franklin, an employee at 'Dream Control' who gets trapped in a clients dream along with a co-worker.
External links
- Fractured Transmitter Recording Company
- Jason Popson at the Internet Movie DatabaseInternet Movie DatabaseInternet Movie Database is an online database of information related to movies, television shows, actors, production crew personnel, video games and fictional characters featured in visual entertainment media. It is one of the most popular online entertainment destinations, with over 100 million...
- Fractured TransmitterFractured Transmitter Recording CompanyFractured Transmitter is a record company started by Jason Popson around the time he departed from Mushroomhead in 2004.-Bands Signed:Pitch Black ForecastThe Alter BoysAmerican WerewolvesAsleepDisengageIntegrityJeff WalkerMeshuggah...
- Jason's MySpace
- (216)'s MySpace
- Pitch Black Forecast's MySpace
- Client 3815 on Youtube