Johan Van Roy
| Suicide Commando | |
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Johan van Roy
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| Background information | |
| Origin | Leopoldsburg, Belgium |
| Genres |
Electro-Industrial Aggrotech |
| Years active | 1986–present |
| Labels |
OffBeat Dependent Noise Terror Productions Metropolis Out Of Line |
| Associated acts | Kombat Unit |
| Website | www |
| Members | Johan van Roy |
Suicide Commando is a Belgian electro-industrial music act created by Johan van Roy in 1986.
Van Roy began experimenting with electronic music back in 1986. Two years later he released his first tape under the moniker Suicide Commando, and his track appeared on the vinyl compilation Electronic. He continued to release more tapes until he was signed by the rising German label Off Beat. Van Roy's first album, Critical Stage was released in 1994. The following year, he released a second album Stored Images, which contains one of his most popular songs, "See You in Hell". In 1996, he released the compilation album Contamination for the act's tenth anniversary.
In 1998, Suicide Commando released the album "Construct-Destruct" and its sister release, "Reconstruction" including the new clubhits "Desire" and "Better Off Dead".
Van Roy was one of the founders of the Dependent label in 1999. It was on this new label that Suicide Commando's next releases, two singles and one EP: "Hellraiser", "Comatose Delusion", and "Love Breeds Suicide", accompanied Suicide Commando's 2000 release, "Mindstrip", which reached the number one spot on the German Alternative Charts (DAC). The "Mindstrip" album also was licensed and released in North America by Metropolis Records.
In 2002 Suicide Commando released the DCD "Anthology" on Dependent, a "best of" compilation, including the band's biggest hits "Hellraiser", "See You in Hell", "Love Breeds Suicide" ... , and offered some exclusive new remixes and rare versions.
For Suicide Commando's next release, "Axis of Evil", a special edition double single called "Face of Death" was released beforehand. The regular edition of the single continues to sell, and "Axis of Evil" was voted album of the year (2003) by the Deutsche Alternative Charts. In 2004 Suicide Commando released another limited edition double single, "Cause of Death: Suicide + One Nation under God".
In 2006, Suicide Commando returned with the album "Bind, Torture, Kill" (also available as limited edition including a bonus disc, poster and sticker), featuring the single "Godsend + Menschenfresser". The album once again reached the top position in several alternative charts across the world and got voted "album of the month" in the German Orkus magazine.
Released in 2007, one year after the band's 20th anniversary is the "X20" boxset including 3 CD's (one remix CD, one "best of" CD and the "Fuck You Bitch" EP) and Suicide Commando's very first live DVD.
In 2009 Suicide Commando signed a deal with the German Out Of Line label. First release on Out Of Line was the 7" "severed head/until we die", not much later followed by a new EP called "die motherfucker die" which once again reached the top position in the German Alternative Charts.
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