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Acid Drinkers

Acid Drinkers in 2008
Background information
Origin POL Poznań flag.svg Poznań
 Poland
Genres Thrash metal
Heavy metal
Years active 1986 - present
Labels Metal Mind Productions 1998-2002
Music for Nations (Under One Flag) 1989-1993
Warner Music 1996-1998
Sony Music Entertainment 2002-2004
Mystic Production 2007-present
Website Official Website
Members
Tomasz "Titus" Pukacki
Darek "Popcorn" Popowicz
Maciej "Ślimak" Starosta
Former members
Robert "Litza" Friedrich
Przemek "Perła" Wejmann
Tomek "Lipa" Lipnicki
Aleksander "Olass" Mendyk †

Acid Drinkers is a Polish thrash metal band, formed in September 1986 in Poznań. Acid Drinkers formed in September 21, 1986 consisting of Tomasz "Titus" Pukacki (vocals, bass) and Robert "Litza" Friedrich (guitar, vocals). The band's style from back then to the today is thrash metal, with influence of heavy metal. Acid Drinkers is one of the most important bands in Polish thrash and heavy metal music.[1]

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[edit] History

Line-up soon expanded as Darek "Popcorn" Popowicz (lead guitar) and a drummer Piotr "Chomik" Kulk (shortly after replaced by Maciej "Ślimak" Starosta) joined the band. With this line-up the band worked on its own compositions; such as "Barmy Army", "Del Rocca" and "I Mean Acid". Within a month of the band's creation, Titus was called to join the army and left the band for two years. The others did not intend to idle their time away; Litza and Popcorn undertook a reactivation of the band named Slavoy. Soon both of them received a proposal to play for reputable groups: Popcorn from Wolf Spider, Litza from Turbo.

After returning from the army, Titus tried to reactivate his first band, Los Desperados. His attempts misfired and Titus himself, after meeting with Popcorn, decided to reform Acid Drinkers with Litza and Ślimak. Their debut took place August 26, 1989 on Wyspa Słodowa in Wrocław. That performance was actually the beginning of the band's true career. Rumors about a new, excellent metal group swiftly spread across Poland. Soon afterwards the Acids received an opportunity to record an album and continue walking along their path of glory. With this line-up there emerged their best-known classics, including their debut, "Are You A Rebel?", "Vile Vicious Vision" and their most famous, "Infernal Connection". At the end of 1998, Litza decided to leave the band. Przemysław "Perła" Wejmann, a vocalist and guitarist and a leader of Guess Why, replaced him. With "Perła" on board, Acids recorded three albums "Amazing Atomic Activity", "Broken Head" and "Acidofilia". At the very beginning of 2003, Perła made up his mind to leave the band. It took almost a month before the new guitarist was chosen. The new member turned out to be a well-known frontman of an already disbanded group - Illusion - Tomek "Lipa" Lipnicki. Together with Lipa, the Acids recorded a well-received long-play, "Rock Is Not Enough". After over a year of cooperation, the new guitarist left Acid Drinkers for his own project, Lipali. His place in the band was taken over by Aleksander "Olass" Mendyk from "None". The new member of Acid's crew quickly integrated himself into the band and was an active member. The band released a critically acclaimed album 'Verses Of Steel', with most of the songs written by the new guitrist. On 30 November 2008, Alexander Mendyk died due circulatory failure, in Cracow, at the age of 29. He has been replaced on May 9 2009, by a new member , Wojciech "Jankiel" Moryto.

To date, Acid Drinkers are widely considered the best and most spectacular thrash-metal band in Poland. Their popularity has gone far beyond the typical metal music sphere. The Acids have played over 500 shows, and many of those will surely stay in the minds of thousands of fans – it would be enough to mention Jarocin festivals, Metalmania, Węgorzewo, Przystanek Woodstock or Odjazdy. The Acids performed there as foreground celebrities. They preceded performances in Poland by, among others, Deep Purple, Megadeth, Bruce Dickinson, Sepultura, Paradise Lost and Slayer. Moreover, many known Polish artists such as: Edyta Bartosiewicz, Kazik Staszewski, Tomek Lipnicki, Patrycja Kosiarkiewicz or Grzegorz Skawiński took part in Acids’ recordings. Acid Drinkers were four times (on 1998, 2000, 2004, 2009) awarded with a Fryderyk in the hard and heavy category, and received in 1998 from TVP 2 the "Złoty bączek" (Golden spinning top) award for being the best music group from Poland. Additionally, they were acknowledged as one of the five best Polish bands of the 1990s (together with Hey, Kazik Staszewski, Edyta Bartosiewicz and O.N.A.) by journalists and readers of Tylko Rock (Only Rock) magazine.

[edit] Members

  • Tomek "Titus" Pukacki - bass, vocals
  • Darek "Popcorn" Popowicz - guitar
  • Maciek "Ślimak" Starosta - drums
  • Wojciech "Jankiel" Moryto - guitar

[edit] Past members

  • Alex "Olass" Mendyk - guitar (2004 - 2008)
  • Robert "Litza" Friedrich - guitar (1986 - 1998)
  • Przemek "Perła" Wejmann - guitar (1998 - 2002)
  • Tomek "Lipa" Lipnicki - guitar (2003 - 2004)

[edit] Discography

  • 1990 - "Are You a Rebel?"
  • 1991 - "Dirty Money, Dirty Tricks"
  • 1992 - "Strip Tease"
  • 1993 - "Vile Vicious Vision"
  • 1994 - "Fishdick"
  • 1994 - "Infernal Connection"
  • 1996 - "The State of Mind Report"
  • 1998 - "High Proof Cosmic Milk"
  • 1998 - "Varran Strikes Back: Alive!" (Recorded on Varran Comodo Tour '98)
  • 1999 - "Amazing Atomic Activity"
  • 2000 - "Broken Head"
  • 2002 - "Acidofilia"
  • 2004 - "Rock Is Not Enough, Give Me The Metal"
  • 2008 - "Verses Of Steel"

[edit] Videos

  • 2004 - "15 Screwed Years"
  • 2006 - "The Hand That Rocks the Coffin"

[edit] Singles

  • 1994 - "3 Version 4 Yonash / Acid On The Dance Floor"
  • 1996 - "Pump The Plastic Heart"
  • 1996 - "Walkay To Heaven"
  • 1998 - "(I Can't Get No) Satisfaction"

[edit] Compilations

[edit] References

  1. ^ Babula, Jordan. Brzykcy, Paweł. Dąbrowski, Paweł. Gajewski, Marcin. Filipowski, Robert. Kirmuć, Michał. Koziczyński, Bartosz. Królikowska, Wiktoria. Królikowski, Wiesław. Kszczotek, Grzegorz. Machała, Wojciech. Pawlak, Marcin. Świrkowicz, Marek. Weiss, Wiesław. 50 na 50: najważniejsze płyty polskiego rocka (pl). Teraz Rock 4(50)/2007. ISSN 1730-394X

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