Satanicide

Satanicide
Origin	New York City, United States
Genres	Death metal, glam metal
Years active	1999–present
Website	Satanicide.com
Members	Dale May Phil Costello Andrew Griffiths Patrick Quade
Past members	Pemberton Roach Jake Garcia Drew Thurlow Royce Peterson

Satanicide is a New York City-based mock metal/glam metal band formed in 1999 that styles itself and its music to represent, tongue-in-cheek, the heavy metal music scene of the 1980s in New Jersey. Self-described as portraying a lifestyle "where the mullet and kick-ass rock 'n' roll still live," the members sport big hair and spandex and leather stagewear. As part of their presentation, Santanicide plays party anthems and power ballads with a mixture of satire and affection. In 2003, the group were described in The Drama Review as an "irreverent, demonic death-metal turned glam turned cock-rock band". The original four member band consists of frontman Dale "Devlin Mayhem" May, guitarist Phil "Aleister Cradley" Costello, drummer Andrew "Sloth Vader" Griffiths, and bassist Pemberton "The Baron Klaus Von Goaten" Roach. Pemberton was replaced by bassist Jake "Vargas Von Goaten" Garcia in 2003, who was subsequently replaced by Drew Thurlow, followed by Patrick Quade.

In the late 1990s, Dale May (a photographer) and Phil Costello were in a group called Peanut 23. Peanut 23's quirky original songs were far from successful. One night, both May and Costello put on their girlfriends' wigs and spent the evening "acting like a couple of kids in from Jersey, kicking over trash cans, talking the talk." After a positive reception that night to an uninvited, impromptu performance on a club's stage, May and Costello decided to form their own band. Drummer Andrew Griffiths was recruited from a trip hop band called Puracane, and bassist Pemberton Roach was added to complete Satanicide.

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