Eventually weekend’s Bloodstock Open Air pageant in the UK, STATIC-X bassist Tony Campos spoke to Neil Jones of TotalRock in regards to the standing of the band’s upcoming documentary movie “Evil Disco: The Rise, Fall, And Regeneration Of Static-X”. He stated (as transcribed by BLABBERMOUTH.NET): “Yeah, it has been within the works for a few years now. It will get pushed again once we’ve gotta go tour and do different issues. However it’s within the works. It is near being accomplished. I feel once we get accomplished touring for the 12 months, we’ll revisit that and try to end it up.”
Requested what it is like being concerned in a documentary about himself, Tony stated: “Bizarre. I am not the sort of dude that likes to take a look at myself too usually. I imply, let’s face it, I ain’t the handsomest fellow on the earth. However, yeah, it is simply bizarre. However it serves a goal.”
Final fall, Tony instructed Rock Information Weekly in regards to the upcoming documentary: “I feel it is gonna be cool, man. It is gonna be a extremely cool look again on the historical past of the band and the historical past of [late STATIC-X frontman] Wayne [Static] and the way he affected all our lives.”
In March 2024, STATIC-X celebrated the twenty fifth anniversary of the band’s debut album, “Wisconsin Loss of life Journey”, by releasing a trailer for “Evil Disco: The Rise, Fall, And Regeneration Of Static-X”.
In a message accompanying the YouTube launch of the trailer, STATIC-X members Campos, Ken Jay (drums),Koichi Fukuda (guitar) and Xer0 (vocals) wrote: “25 years in the past as we speak, STATIC-X unleashed ‘Wisconsin Loss of life Journey’ onto the world. On this very particular anniversary, we want to share a teaser for the primary ever official STATIC-X documentary movie titled ‘Evil Disco: The Rise, Fall, And Regeneration Of Static-X’.
“Thanks all for 25 years of wonderful reminiscences… A lot extra to come back!”
Though the id of STATIC-X‘s touring singer has not been formally revealed, robust rumors counsel that DOPE‘s Edsel Dope is the nameless, considerably ominous new frontman of STATIC-X who’s carrying a masks within the likeness of late frontman Wayne Static whereas performing alongside Campos, Jay and Fukuda.
In a fall 2023 interview with Andy Corridor of the Des Moines, Iowa radio station Lazer 103.3, Campos addressed STATIC-X‘s reliance on a “masked” vocalist as an alternative of hiring a correct alternative for Wayne, saying: “It has been actually cool, man, how individuals have embraced that concept of getting the character up there being the consultant of Wayne‘s vibe and spirit with out us being, like, ‘Hey, this is STATIC-X with their new singer.’ That is not what we wished to do. So, we had been simply, like, ‘How can we characterize Wayne in a cool method?’ And I feel this can be a actually cool option to do it.”
He continued: “I hold coming again to the IRON MAIDEN analogy — not solely was Wayne our Bruce Dickinson [IRON MAIDEN singer], however he was additionally our Eddie [IRON MAIDEN mascot]. He was the mascot for the band. So how do you characterize that? And I feel the Xer0 character does a very good job at it.”
When Corridor famous that it have to be “a fairly highly effective expertise” for him to be wanting over and seeing Xer0 channeling the spirit of Wayne throughout STATIC-X‘s stay exhibits, Tony stated: “Once we first began and I am up there headbanging doing my factor, out of my peripheral imaginative and prescient, I see that determine with the hair and I am enjoying the songs once more, it is identical to 20 years in the past; it was simply that vibe once more. And having Koichi and, and Kenny up there, it was actually cool, man. And particularly these first couple of weeks, we might be accomplished with the present and we might be again within the dressing room, and we might all be, like, ‘Fuck, Wayne must be right here.’ However we positively really feel this vibe and presence.”
Static died after mixing Xanax and different highly effective prescribed drugs with alcohol, in keeping with the coroner’s report. The 48-year-old, whose actual title was Wayne Richard Wells, was discovered useless in his Landers, California residence on November 1, 2014.
Static based STATIC-X in 1994 and achieved business success with “Wisconsin Loss of life Journey”, which included the rock radio hit “Push It”.
The group issued 5 extra studio albums earlier than disbanding completely in June 2013. Static had been pursuing a solo profession on the time of his loss of life.
Dope instructed Anne Erickson of Audio Ink Radio that the explanation Xer0‘s id has not been formally revealed is that he desires to guarantee that STATIC-X is “correctly represented, as a result of I’d by no means be keen on a photograph of STATIC-X or studying a liner observe that mentions me as being the singer of STATIC-X. Edsel Dope has no real interest in being the singer of STATIC-X,” he clarified. “There’s one residing, respiration singer of STATIC-X, and that is Wayne Static. After which there is a character, an entity, for lack of higher phrases, that was created in an effort to permit STATIC-X to have a future and to proceed and be the legacy act that they’re and tour and carry out, and we gave that character a reputation that’s respective to STATIC-X and suits the branding of what STATIC-X is, and that is what the significance is. It is the significance of recognizing the character versus recognizing the particular person behind the character.”
Again in October 2019, a photograph was posted on-line clearly displaying that Dope and Xer0 shared the identical neck tattoo. Nonetheless, Edsel later posted a prolonged assertion on his band’s Fb web page trying to quash the rumors, implying Xer0‘s distinctive physique ink was in reality a Photoshop job. Dope even supplied {a photograph} of himself supposedly observing a STATIC-X efficiency sidestage to show he and Xer0 weren’t the identical particular person.
STATIC-X‘s “Challenge Regeneration Vol. 1” LP got here out in July 2020. The primary of two volumes, it featured 12 model new tracks, containing lots of the closing vocal performances and musical compositions of Wayne Static, together with the unique “Wisconsin Loss of life Journey” lineup of Campos, Jay and Fukuda. A follow-up album, “Challenge Regeneration: Vol. 2”, arrived on January 26, 2024. A group of 14 brand-new songs, the LP was produced by Xer0 and blended/mastered by longtime collaborator Ulrich Wild.
