CPC Gangbangs

{{Infobox musical artist

| name = CPC Gangbangs

| image = CPC-Gangbangs-Vucino.jpg

| caption = CPC Gangbangs playing live in 2005

| origin = Montreal, Quebec, Canada

| genre = Garage punk
Garage rock
Rock 'n' Roll

| years_active = 2001–2008

| label = Swami Records
P.Trash Records
Die Slaughterhaus Records
Seeing Eye Records
Profet Records

| website =

| associated_acts = Les Sexareenos
The Spaceshits
Lyle Sheraton and the Daylight Lovers
Grime
Milky Ways
The Night Marchers

| current_members = Paul Spence
Choyce
Danny Marks
Tommy Kitsos
Riccardo Lucchesi

| former_members =

}}

CPC Gangbangs were a Montreal, Quebec-based garage punk band,{{cite web|url=http://www.brooklynvegan.com/tag/cpc%20gangbangs|title=Bill reports on M for Montreal (Night three) Red Mass|last=Pearis|first=Bill|author2=BrooklynVegan|year=2008|publisher=Buzzmedia.com|accessdate=30 September 2012}} composed of former members of bands Les Sexareenos (1999–2002), The Spaceshits (1995–99), Lyle Sheraton and the Daylight Lovers (1997–99), Grime, and Milky Ways.

History

CPC Gangbangs was established in 2001 as The Gangbangs by Daylight Lovers bassist Roy Vucino who used the stage name Choyce. It was originally intended as a punk band influenced by the likes of Black Flag. Its first single was released in 2002 by High School Refuse Records, titled "When All Turns To Shit."

In early 2003, the band was renamed CPC Gangbangs, and guitarist and vocalist Paul Spence, (previously a member of the punk rock band Lyle Sheraton and the Daylight Lovers, and co-star of the mockumentary cult classic FUBAR: The Movie), joined the band.[https://nowtoronto.com/music/le-dark-side/ "Le dark side CPC Gangbangs’ Montreal includes blood"]. Now Toronto, by Tim Perlich August 16, 2007 Spence and Choyce shared songwriting duties and stage presence evenly. After entering and completing a drug detoxification program, Choyce returned to the band with renewed health and incorporated experiences of crime and hard drug-related experiences in the lyrics of songs for the band. He also included imagery and lyrical content influenced by Aleister Crowley and Austin Osman Spare.[http://www.montrealmirror.com/2007/061407/music1.html "Magick and mayhem"]. Montreal Mirror, by JOHNSON CUMMINS, June 14. [https://web.archive.org/web/20070629183103/http://www.montrealmirror.com/2007/061407/music1.html Archived] at the Wayback Machine. While playing mainly garage punk, CPC Gangbangs incorporated elements of space rock and thrash metal into their music. With this lineup, the CPC Gangbangs performed live shows regularly in Montreal and later in Toronto.{{usurped|1=[https://web.archive.org/web/20170510010240/http://www.chartattack.com/news/2008/04/18/jay-reatard-punches-audience-member-walks-out-on-show/ "Jay Reatard Punches Audience Member, Walks Out On Show"]}}. Chart Attack, Apr 18, 2008

The group's debut LP "Mutilation Nation" was released in 2007 on Swami Records.[http://exclaim.ca/music/article/cpc_gangbangs-mutilation_nation "CPC Gangbangs Mutilation Nation"]. Exclaim!, By Josiah Hughes. Oct 29, 2007 The band then went out on tour in support of the album.[http://www.mongrelzine.ca/blog/cpcgangbangs/ "CPC Gangbangs"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170808075938/http://www.mongrelzine.ca/blog/cpcgangbangs/ |date=2017-08-08 }}. Mongrelzine, June 2, 2008 BOB SCOTT That year the band released a single, "The Broken Glass".[http://www.ox-fanzine.de/web/rev/63125/reviews.207.html "CPC GANGBANGS The Broken Glass"]. Kalle Stille, Ox-Fanzine Issue #76 (February/March 2008).

Following the departure of key members and the arrest of another in the US, Choyce released a statement declaring the band's dissolution in 2008. Some of the members formed a new outfit under the name Red Mass, and continued to use the imagery and Crowley influences of the previous band.