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Static-X @ Slim's 12/17/2019
photo by Marc Fong
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Last year, industrial metal band, Static-X announced they would be celebrating the 20th anniversary of the band's debut studio album, Wisconsin Death Trip, with a reunion tour.
In 2014, fans mourned the passing Static-X front-man, Wayne Static, so a reunion tour is, at the very least, unusual.
In addition to the tour, Tony Campos, Koichi, Fukuda and Ken Jay, the remaining members of Static-X, announced that they'd be reforming the band in honor of Wayne Static. The up-coming album, set to be released in 2020, will be appropriately titled, Project Regeneration. The 2020 release will be the first since the band's last album with Static in 2009.
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Static-X @ Slim's 12/17/2019
photo by Marc Fong
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For the tour, and presumably the album, the band enlisted the help of the mysterious Xer0, a masked guitarist/singer who steps in for the late singer. Xer0's identity has not been revealed though there's a lot of evidence the singer is Dope's front-person, Edsel Dope. In any event, Wayne Static's "replacement" sports a leathery mask that bares a creepy resemblance to Static, complete with tall, electric hair.
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Static-X @ Slim's 12/17/2019
photo by Marc Fong
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Static-X @ Slim's 12/17/2019
photo by Marc Fong
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Fans in SF got their X-mas gift a week early when Static-X came to town!
Their raucous, sold-out, headlining show at Slim's on Tuesday December 17th certainly showed that while the great Wayne Static was no longer with us, his music still is.
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Static-X @ Slim's 12/17/2019
photo by Marc Fong
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As the lights dropped, a screen projected images of the band members with a special focus on Wayne Static. The band members took the stage one at a time as the images faded. They kicked off the show with "Bled for Days", one of Wisconsin's Death Trip's heaviest anthems, setting the pace for the evening. Each member took a turn highlighting their solos.
Xer0 was an attraction with his Static mask, towering hair and remarkably similar vocal style to Static himself. But, in no way did he try to usurp Static's legacy, I think that the mask, as a ghoulish as it may seem, was another way to pay homage to the band's founder.
It was a furiously rocking night of fast music, talented musicians and remembering a metal legend. This is clearly a different Static-X without the original main-man, but the Project Regeneration tour (and album) is a great way to appreciate this killer band.
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Static-X @ Slim's 12/17/2019
photo by Marc Fong
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set-list 12/17/2019
1. Bled For Days
2. Wisconsin Death Trip
3. Fix
4. Sweat of the Bud
5. Love Dump
6. I Am
7. Otsegolation
8. The Trance is the Motion
9. Get to the Gone
10. Black and White
11. This Is Not
12. Destroy All
13. Start a War
14. Behemoth
15. Cold
16. I'm With Stupid
17. Push It
written by Marc Fong
edited by Nikki DeMartini
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