Location: Los Angeles
Active: 1977 – 1983
Discordant jazz punk fueled by the manic lyrics of monster movie and Japanese gangster film enthusiast, poet, writer for Slash Magazine, and producer Chris Desjardins. One of the earliest bands to emerge from the LA punk movement, they brought something new and wild to the mix. Though the lineup remained fluid around Desjardins, their 1981 album ‘A Minute To Pray, A Scond To Die’ featured an impressive lineup of keystone punk bands (cowpunk? Maybe too early for that, but all include a significant country influence:) Stan Ridgway of Wall of Voodoo, John Doe and D. J. Bonebrake of X, Germs and The Eyes, Tito Larriva of the Plugz, and Blasters members Dave Alvin and Bill Bateman.
A more permanent lineup with Don Kirk, Robyn Jameson and Steve Berlin would follow but the band split up in 1983, and Desjardins focused on Divine Horsemen and later Stone By Stone. A solo album titled ‘Time Stands Still’ in 1984 featured Jeffrey Lee Pierce of The Gun Club and Texacala Jones (Tex & The Horseheads). They reunited for a few years in 1989 and 1997 and released a number of new albums throughout the 2000s.
Flesheaters contributed tracks to the Tooth And Nail compilation with U.X.A., The Germs and Middle Class, and the ‘Return Of The Living Dead’ soundtrack alongside The Cramps, 45 Grave, TSOL and The Damned.
Discogs: https://www.discogs.com/artist/257142-The-Flesh-Eaters
BandCamp: https://theflesheaters.bandcamp.com/
Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Flesh_Eaters
Related: Plugz, Blasters, Eyes, Wall Of Voodoo, X, Tex & The Horseheads, The Gun Club, Divine Horsemen, Stone By Stone, U.X.A., The Germs, Middle Class, The Cramps, 45 Grave, TSOL and The Damned, Chris Desjardins, Stan Ridgway, John Doe, D. J. Bonebrake, Dave Alvin, Bill Bateman, Don Kirk, Robyn Jameson and Steve Berlin, Jeffrey Lee Pierce, Texacala Jones, ‘Return Of The Living Dead’, cowpunk, Los Angeles, 1977
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