Brokencyde

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Brokencyde was founded by singers Se7en and Mikl. The name of the group supposedly originated from the idea that their music was "broke inside" due to personal problems.{{cite web |title= Brokencyde |url= http://www.indiestar.tv/vidPlay.php?id=27 |work= Indiestar.tv |publisher= Mainstream Killed the Indie Star |access-date= July 6, 2009 |url-status= usurped |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20101204172346/http://indiestar.tv/vidPlay.php?id=27 |archive-date= December 4, 2010 }} After the band began promoting themselves online, members Phat J and Antz joined Brokencyde. They released their debut mixtape, The Broken!, in July 2007, followed by another mixtape, Tha $c3ne Mixtape (2008).

Brokencyde toured with bands such as Breathe Carolina,{{cite web|url=http://www.hiphoppress.com/2008/11/brokencyde-wrap.html|title=hiphoppress.com|access-date=May 16, 2009|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081226225724/http://www.hiphoppress.com/2008/11/brokencyde-wrap.html|archive-date=December 26, 2008|url-status=dead}} The Morning Of,{{cite web|url=http://eventful.com/fairdale/events/breathe-carolina-every-avenue-brokencyde-morning-/E0-001-015496370-8|title=Aim For The Skies in Bowling Green, KY - Sep 25, 2008 7:15 PM - Eventful|work=Eventful}} Karate High School, and Drop Dead, Gorgeous. In July 2008, Brokencyde appeared on MTV's Total Request Live, where they performed the single "FreaXXX" on the segment "Under the Radar". They signed with Suburban Noize Records later that summer, and released the BC13 EP on November 11, 2008 during a promotion with the retail chain Hot Topic.{{cite web|url=http://thehypemagazine.blogspot.com/2008/10/innovators-of-crunkcore-brokencyde.html|title=The Hype Magazine 24/7 News: Innovators of Crunkcore Brokencyde Release Debut EP Exclusively Through Hot Topic November 11th, 2008|website=Thehypemagazine.blogspot.com}}

In 2008, the group performed dates on the Millionaires-headlined "Get F$cked Up" tour, and appeared twice on "Fearless Music TV", performing "Sex Toyz" and "FreaXXX" in December 2008.[https://www.nme.com/video/id/vtWdvjZixJk/] {{Dead link|date=July 2019|bot=InternetArchiveBot|fix-attempted=yes}}

The group's first full-length release, I'm Not a Fan, But the Kids Like It!, debuted at #86 on the Billboard 200 in July 2009.[{{BillboardURLbyName|artist=brokencyde|chart=all}} Chart], Billboard.com Brokencyde was featured on the US Warped Tour 2009,{{cite web|url=http://rockmusic.today.com/2008/12/29/warped-tour-2009-line-up/ |title=Warped Tour 2009 Line-up |author=Rich Leigh |access-date=July 1, 2009 |date=December 28, 2008 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090122103700/http://rockmusic.today.com/2008/12/29/warped-tour-2009-line-up/ |archive-date=January 22, 2009 }} but left the tour in August to play featured appearances in Europe.{{cite web |url = http://www.smnnews.com/2009/08/26/brokencyde-kicked-off-warped-tour-nay/ |title = Brokencyde Kicked Off Warped Tour? Nay! |date = August 26, 2009 |access-date = September 12, 2009 |archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20090829153638/http://www.smnnews.com/2009/08/26/brokencyde-kicked-off-warped-tour-nay/ |archive-date = August 29, 2009 |url-status = dead }}

Later Brokencyde played dates on "The Original Gangstour" tour with Eyes Set to Kill, And Then There Were None, and Drop Dead, Gorgeous. They played dates on the "Saints and Sinners Tour 2009" with Senses Fail, Hollywood Undead, and Haste The Day.[http://thingstodo.msn.com/seattle-wa/events/show/85706675-senses-fail-saints-and-sinners-tour]{{dead link|date=July 2017|bot=InternetArchiveBot|fix-attempted=yes}}

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In early 2010, the band released two songs for free download on their Myspace. The songs were "I'm Da Shizzit" and a cover of the song "Sexy Bitch" by David Guetta. In the summer Brokencyde co-headlined the 2 DRUNK 2 FUCK tour with Jeffree Star. Soon after the tour ended they announced that they were in the studio. In the beginning of fall their new album was announced to be complete with the title of Will Never Die. The album was released on Break Silence Recordings on November 9. In winter 2010, Brokencyde co-headlined the KA$H 4 KU$H tour with the Millionaires. On October 30, the video for "Teach Me How to Scream" was released via MySpace.

In April 2011, the members of Brokencyde assaulted Punchline drummer Cory Muro at Smiling Moose in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. This resulted in Muro needing three staples in his head and his friend Johnny Grushecky having a broken nose.{{cite web|url=https://themusic.com.au/news/members-of-brokencyde-assault-punchline-drummer/wiLe1NfW2dg/27-04-11|title=Members of Brokencyde assault Punchline drummer|date=April 27, 2011|website=themusic.com.au|accessdate=July 2, 2024}}

The group released their third studio album Guilty Pleasure on November 8, 2011. An updated version was later released on March 13, 2012 titled Guilty Pleasurez which the band is supporting with a European "Guilty Pleasurez" tour.{{Cite web|url=https://www.facebook.com/official.brokencyde/app/123966167614127|title=brokeNCYDE|website=Facebook.com}}

In 2012, Brokencyde played dates on the "Fight to Unite Tour" alongside other acts including Blood on the Dance Floor, Deuce (formerly of Hollywood Undead), Polkadot Cadaver, William Control and The Bunny the Bear.{{Cite web|url=https://www.facebook.com/thefighttounitetour/|title=The Fight To Unite Tour|website=Facebook.com}} On October 29, 2012, Julian "Phat J" McClellan announced via his official YouTube page that he was amicably leaving Brokencyde to pursue a solo career.{{YouTube|HhQ8kcxsaoc}}

In December 2014, Brokencyde launched an Indiegogo crowdfunding campaign, seeking US$30,000 to help fund the recording and marketing of a new album titled All Grown Up.{{cite web| last = Sharp| first = Tyler| title = BrokenCYDE have launched a $30,000 crowdfunding campaign for a new album| work = Alternative Press| date = January 3, 2015| url = http://www.altpress.com/news/entry/brokencyde_have_launched_a_30000_crowdfunding_campaign_for_a_new_album| access-date = February 13, 2015}} By the time the funding period ended in February 2015, the band only managed to raise US$1,421 from 33 backers — less than 5% of their intended goal.{{cite web| last = Ritchie| first = Andy| title = It Turns Out Only 33 People In The Entire World Want A New BrokeNCYDE Album| work = Rock Sound| date = February 12, 2015| url = http://www.rocksound.tv/news/read/it-turns-out-only-33-people-in-the-entire-world-want-a-new-brokencyde-album| access-date = February 13, 2015}} Nevertheless, the group still self-released a 23-track album titled All Grown Up.

In April 2018, the band announced that they had signed a deal with Cleopatra Records through which they would be releasing their fourth album on Cleopatra Records' imprint, X-Ray Records.{{Cite web|url=https://www.deadpress.co.uk/news-brokencyde-sign-with-cleopatra-records/|title=NEWS: Brokencyde sign with Cleopatra Records!|first=Zach|last=Redrup|website=Deadpress.co.uk|date=April 27, 2018}} The album, 0 to Brokencyde, was released on June 22, 2018.{{cite web|archive-url=https://archive.today/20230913024714/https://cleorecs.com/store/shop/brokencyde-0-to-brokencyde-cd/|url=https://cleorecs.com/store/shop/brokencyde-0-to-brokencyde-cd/|archive-date=September 13, 2023|title=Brokencyde - 0 to Brokencyde (CD) - Cleopatra Records Store|website=cleorecs.com|accessdate=September 13, 2023}}

In 2022, it was announced that Se7en had taken a leave from the group and that Phat J had returned to the lineup.{{Cite web|url=https://kbrecordzz.com/2021/01/07/50-of-the-worlds-most-hated-band-is-back/|title=Mikl Shea & Phat J from Brokencyde are back! – kbrecordzz|website=kbrecordzz.com}}

Brokencyde is widely panned by critics. Cracked.com contributor Michael Swaim said the band sounded like "a Slipknot-Cher duet",{{cite web|url=http://www.cracked.com/video_17259_6-worst-professional-music-videos-on-web.html|title=The 6 Worst 'Professional' Music Videos on the Web|work=Cracked.com}} while another Cracked contributor Adam Tod Brown commented on their song FreaXXX "I hate that song so much that I would hold it face down in a bathtub until it drowns if I could."{{cite web|url=http://www.cracked.com/blog/10-great-songs-by-worst-bands-all-time_p2/#ixzz2qrjDC3qK|title=10 Great Songs By the Worst Bands of All Time|website=Cracked.com}}

British comic book writer Warren Ellis considered Brokencyde's "FreaXXX" music video "a near-perfect snapshot of everything that's shit about this point in the culture".{{cite web|url=http://www.warrenellis.com/?p=6781|title=Brokencyde – Warren Ellis|website=Warrenellis.com}} A writer for the Warsaw Business Journal attempted to describe their music: "Imagine an impassioned triceratops mating with a steam turbine, while off to the side Daft Punk and the Bee Gees beat each other to death with skillets and spatulas. Imagine the sound that would make. Just try. BrokeNCYDE is kind of like that, except it also makes you want to jab your thumbs into your eyeballs and gargle acid."{{cite news|url=http://www.wbj.pl/article-49206-tech-eye-fresh-ideas-sour-tunes.html?type=wbj |title=Tech Eye: Fresh ideas, sour tunes |date=April 12, 2010 |work=Warsaw Business Journal |access-date=August 25, 2011 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120329141052/http://www.wbj.pl/article-49206-tech-eye-fresh-ideas-sour-tunes.html?type=wbj |archive-date=March 29, 2012 }}

The New Musical Express stated in a review of I'm Not a Fan, But the Kids Like It!, that "even if I caught Prince Harry and Gary Glitter adorned in Nazi regalia defecating through my grandmother's letterbox I would still consider making them listen to this album too severe a punishment."{{cite web|url=https://www.nme.com/reviews/broken-records/10551|title=NME Reviews - Album Review: Brokencyde - 'I'm Not A Fan, But The Kids Like It!' |work=Nme.com|date=June 11, 2009 }}

August Brown of the Los Angeles Times writes:

"This 'Albucrazy'-based band has done for MySpace emo what some think Soulja Boy did for hip-hop: turn their career into a kind of macro-performance art that exists so far beyond the tropes of irony and sincerity that to ask 'are they kidding?' is like trying to peel an onion to get to a perceived central core that, in the end, does not exist and renders all attempts to reassemble the pieces futile."{{cite web|url=http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/music_blog/2008/11/in-which-we-pon.html|title=Pop & Hiss|website=Latimesblogs.latimes.com}}

In the late 2010s and early 2020s, several music critics{{who|date=October 2023}} described Brokencyde as an antecedent to hyperpop artists like 100 gecs.{{cite news|url=https://www.vice.com/en/article/4ay55n/brokencyde-what-happened-musical-legacy-100-gecs |title=The Musical Legacy of Brokencyde |date=August 17, 2020 |work=Vice|access-date=October 7, 2021}}{{cite news|url=https://uproxx.com/indie/100-gecs-critics-poll/|title=Why 100 Gecs Deserves to be Taken Seriously|date=December 20, 2019 |work=Uproxx|access-date=October 7, 2021}}{{cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2019/09/04/arts/music/100-gecs-review.html |title=The Riotous, Internet-Speed Sound of 100 Gecs |date=September 4, 2019 |work=New York Times|access-date=October 7, 2021}}

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Current members

• Michael "Mikl" Shea – clean and rap vocals (2006–present)
• Julian "Phat J" McLellan – rap and growled vocals, keyboards, programming (2007–2012; 2022–present){{Cite web|url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HhQ8kcxsaoc|title=I'm leaving brokeNCYDE|publisher=YouTube}}

Touring members

• Paulo "Psuy?" Hidalgo – backing vocals (2011–present)
• Ace Neroexistence – keyboards, programming (2011–present)
• Chad "Big Chaco" Chadillac – drums (2011–present){{cite web|title=The Death Race Tour 2011 (behind the screams)| date=March 5, 2012 |url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L8YYhxa9R4A#t=130 |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/varchive/youtube/20211221/L8YYhxa9R4A |archive-date=2021-12-21 |url-status=live|publisher=YouTube}}{{cbignore}}

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Former members

• David "Se7en" Gallegos – screamed and rap vocals (2006–2022)
• Anthony "Antz" Trujillo – unclean and rap vocals, programming{{cite web|last1=Eglinton|first1=Mark|title=BrokeNCYDE: The Decline Of Western Civilization Part Three?|url=http://thequietus.com/articles/01954-brokencyde-scourge-of-public-decency-or-merely-the-worst-band-in-the-world|website=The Quietus|date=June 24, 2009 |access-date=February 25, 2018}} (2008–2014)

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