Droid (band)

Droid
Origin	Long Beach, California, United States
Genres	Heavy metal, Death metal
Years active	1997 - 2010
Labels	Emotional Syphon Recordings
Associated acts	The Deadlights Corporate Avenger
Website	Official site
Members
Jamie Teissere Bruce Childress Nick McWells Ryan Burchfield
Past members
Duke James Eason Dirt E Bryan FIL

Droid (sometimes typeset as -D-R-O-I-D- or DROID as to fit their official logo) is an American Heavy metal/Death metal band from Long Beach, California. They are currently signed to Korn member James "Munky" Shaffer's record label Emotional Syphon Records. The band was signed to the record label after Shaffer watched them perform live at the world renowned Whiskey-A-Go-Go.^[1] The band would also accompany Korn and Limp Bizkit on their 2003 Back 2 Basic's tour, as well as the 2006 and 2007 installments of the Family Values Tour.^[2] Droid have also worked as the backing musician's for Korn bassist Fieldy's side project Fieldy's Dreams.^[3] The band has been voted 2007 newcomer of the year at The Gauntlet, and the music video for Fueled By Hate was voted the #11 video of 2007 on MTV2's Headbangers Ball.^[4][5] It has been recently announced by the band that Duke has left DROID. They have acquired new bassist Ryan Burchfield. Droid has released a single available for download, "Condemn the Weak" on Droidmusic.com. Droid's song God of Anger was featured on the FOX television series Bones in Season 4 episode 21.^[6] The band is currently on indefinite hiatus, focusing on other elements in their personal lives.

Discography

Title	Release date	Label	Tracklisting
Demo	2001	Independent	Tracklisting 1.Burning Skies 2.Escpae 3.Induce 4.Dissolve
Arizona EP	2002	Independent	Tracklisting 1.Priceless 2.Escpae 3.Silence 4.This Day 5.Four Walls Black
Swallow the Cure	2003	Independent	Tracklisting 1.Swallow the cure 2.Four Walls Black 3.Leave This Behind 4.Delay 5.Silence 6.Dissolve 7.Priceless 8.Escape 9.This Day 10.Burning Skies 11.Instrumental
Swallow the Cure	2006	Emotional Syphon Records
Droid	July 10, 2007	Emotional Syphon Records	Tracklisting 1.The Resurrection 2.Fueled By Hate 3.God Of Anger 4.Built To Last 5.No Gods No Masters 6.Withdrawals Of Me 7.Vengeance Is Mine 8.For The Following 9.Behind Dead Eyes 10.Salt The Graves 11.Together We Die 12. My Oath
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Members

Current line-up

Jamie Teissere – guitar (1997 - current)
Bruce Childress - guitar (1997 - current)
Nick McWells – drums (1997 - current)
Ryan Burchfield - bass (2007 - current)

Ex-members

James Eason – vocals (1997–2010)
Duke - bass (2005–2007)
FIL - drums (2002–2004)
Bryan - bass (2002–2004)
Dirt E - bass (2001, 2004–2005) Alan Mendoza(Band Founder) - Bass guitar (1996-2000)

Interviews

• James "Buddy" Eason Interview on Minnage
• James “Buddy” Eason Interview on Type 3 Media

References

1. ^ DROIDMUSIC.COM the official site of DROID on Emotional Syphon Recordings
2. ^ Blabbermouth.Net - Droid Added To Family Values Tour
3. ^ BLABBERMOUTH.NET - DROID Finish Tracking Instruments For New CD
4. ^ The Gauntlet :: - Heavy Metal - News - Videos - Ringtones - mp3s - Tabs - Wallpaper - lyrics
5. ^ Roadrunner Records
6. ^ http://www.fox.com/bones/features/music/season4.htm

External links

• Official site
• Official MySpace