Suicide Commando

Van Roy began experimenting with electronic music back in 1986. Two years later, he released his first tape under the moniker Suicide Commando, and his track appeared on the vinyl compilation Electronic. He continued to release more tapes until he was signed by the rising German label Off Beat. Van Roy's first album, Critical Stage, was released in 1994. The following year, he released a second album, Stored Images, which contains one of his most popular songs, "See You in Hell". In 1996, he released the compilation album Contamination for the act's tenth anniversary.

In 1998, Suicide Commando released the album Construct-Destruct and its sister release, Reconstruction, which included the new club hits "Desire" and "Better Off Dead".

Van Roy was one of the founders of the Dependent label in 1999. It was on this new label that Suicide Commando's next releases, the singles "Hellraiser" and "Comatose Delusion" and the EP Love Breeds Suicide, accompanied Suicide Commando's 2000 release, Mindstrip. Mindstrip reached number one on the German alternative chart (DAC).{{cn|date=October 2021}} It was licensed and released in North America by Metropolis Records. In 2002, Suicide Commando released the DCD Anthology on Dependent, a "best of" compilation, which included the band's biggest hits "Hellraiser", "See You in Hell", "Love Breeds Suicide", and offered some exclusive new remixes and rare versions.

Suicide Commando's next release, Axis of Evil, was voted album of the year (2003) by the Deutsche Alternative Charts (DAC).{{cn|date=October 2021}} In 2006, Suicide Commando returned with the album Bind, Torture, Kill, which was preceded by the single "Godsend + Menschenfresser". "Godsend + Menschenfresser" peaked at #2 on the DAC Singles charts{{cite web |title=DAC Top 100 Singles 2005 |url=http://charts.trendcharts.de/jahrescharts2005/DAC/index.html |website=Trendcharts oHG |publisher=AMC Alster Musik Consulting GmbH |access-date=20 January 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080423203707/http://charts.trendcharts.de/jahrescharts2005/DAC/index.html |archive-date=23 April 2008 |date=2006 |url-status=dead}} while the album reached the top position in the DAC, ranked #8 on the DAC Top Albums of 2006,{{cite web |title=DAC Top 50 Albums 2006 |url=http://charts.trendcharts.de/jahrescharts2006/dac_top50_album/index.html |website=Trendcharts oHG |publisher=AMC Alster Musik Consulting GmbH |access-date=21 January 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080423220632/http://charts.trendcharts.de/jahrescharts2006/dac_top50_album/index.html |archive-date=23 April 2008 |date=2007 |url-status=dead}} and was voted album of the month in the German Orkus magazine.{{cn|date=October 2021}}

Released in 2007, one year after the band's 20th anniversary, was the X20 boxset including 3 CDs (one remix CD, one "best of" CD and the Fuck You Bitch EP) and Suicide Commando's very first live DVD. In 2009, Suicide Commando signed a deal with the German Out of Line label. The first release on Out of Line was the 7" "severed head/until we die", not much later followed by a new EP called "die motherfucker die" which once again reached the top position in the German alternative chart. In 2010, Suicide Commando released the implements of hell album on Out of Line in three different editions and once again licensed in the US by Metropolis Records.

In 2011, Suicide Commando re-released their first three studio albums as The Suicide Sessions, a special limited six-CD box including remastered versions of his first three albums Critical Stage, Stored Images, and Construct-Destruct, and three discs with much bonus material and many previously unreleased songs. One year later, van Roy returned with "Attention Whore", as the lead single from the album When Evil Speaks, which was released in 2013 and reached the official German Media Control Charts at position 47. At the end of 2013, "Unterwelt" was released as the second single from When Evil Speaks.

In 2015, Suicide Commando returned with "The Pain That You Like" (featuring Jean Luc de Meyer from Front 242 as a guest vocalist) as the lead single from the album Forest of the Impaled (2017). The album reached the official German Media Control Charts at position 28.{{cn|date=October 2021}}

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• Critical Stage (1994)
• Stored Images (1995)
• Construct-Destruct (1998) – #12 CMJ RPM Charts (U.S.){{cite journal |last1=Sansone |first1=Glen |title=RPM |journal=CMJ New Music Report |date=12 April 1999 |volume=58 |issue=613 |page=30 |url=https://worldradiohistory.com/Archive-All-Music/CMJ/1999/CMJ-1999-04-12.pdf |access-date=22 December 2021 |publisher=College Media, Inc. |location=Great Neck, NY |issn=0890-0795}}
• Mindstrip (2000) – #19 DAC Top 50 Albums of 2000 (Germany);{{cite web |title=DAC Top 50 2000 |url=http://www.public-propaganda.de/charts/1999/dac_alb50.html |website=Trendcharts oHG |publisher=AMC Alster Musik Consulting GmbH |access-date=20 January 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20010211140354/http://www.public-propaganda.de/charts/2000/dac_alb50.html |archive-date=11 February 2001 |date=2001 |url-status=dead}} #12 CMJ RPM Charts (U.S.){{cite journal |last1=Comer |first1=M. Tye |title=RPM |journal=CMJ New Music Report |date=5 February 2001 |volume=66 |issue=700 |page=29 |url=https://worldradiohistory.com/Archive-All-Music/CMJ/2001/CMJ-719-2001-02-05.pdf |access-date=24 January 2022 |publisher=College Media, Inc. |location=New York, NY |issn=0890-0795}}
• Axis of Evil (2003)
• Bind, Torture, Kill (2006) – #8 DAC Top 50 Albums of 2006 (Germany)
• Implements of Hell (2010)
• When Evil Speaks (2013)
• Forest of the Impaled (2017)
• Goddestruktor (2022)

• Contamination (1996)
• Re-construction (1998)
• Chromdioxyde (1999)
• Anthology (2002)
• X20 (2007)
• The Suicide Sessions (2011)
• Electro Convulsion Therapy RE-RELEASE (2015)
• X-30 COMPENDIUM (2016)

• Never Get Out (1993)
• State of Emergency (1997)
• Comatose Delusion (2000) – #11 DAC Top 100 Singles of 2000, Germany{{cite web |title=DAC Top 100 Singles 2000 |url=http://www.public-propaganda.de/charts/2000/dac_sing2000.html |website=Trendcharts oHG |publisher=AMC Alster Musik Consulting GmbH |access-date=20 January 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20010423192450/http://www.public-propaganda.de/charts/2000/dac_sing2000.html |archive-date=23 April 2001 |date=2001 |url-status=dead}}
• Hellraiser (2000) – #22 DAC Top 100 Singles of 2000, Germany
• Love Breeds Suicide (2000) – #7 DAC Top 50 Singles of 2001, Germany{{cite web |title=DAC Top 50 Singles 2001 |url=http://www.public-propaganda.de/charts/jahrescharts2001/DACSingle.html |website=Trendcharts oHG |publisher=AMC Alster Musik Consulting GmbH |access-date=20 January 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20020210031908/http://www.public-propaganda.de/charts/jahrescharts2001/DACSingle.html |archive-date=10 Feb 2002 |date=2002 |url-status=dead}}
• Face of Death (2003) – #16 DAC Top 100 Singles of 2003, Germany{{cite web |title=DAC Top 100 Singles 2003 |url=http://www.public-propaganda.de/charts/jahrescharts2003/DAC/index.html |website=Trendcharts oHG |publisher=AMC Alster Musik Consulting GmbH |access-date=20 January 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20040110234321/http://www.public-propaganda.de/charts/jahrescharts2003/DAC/index.html |archive-date=10 January 2004 |date=2004 |url-status=dead}}
• Cause of Death: Suicide (2004)
• Cause of Death: Suicide / One Nation Under God (2004)
• Godsend / Menschenfresser (2005) – #2 DAC Singles
• Until We Die / Severed Head (2009)
• Die Motherfucker Die (2009)
• God Is in the Rain (2010)
• Death Cures All Pain (2010)
• Attention Whore (2012)
• Unterwelt (2013)
• The Pain That You Like (2015)
• Death will Find You (2018)
• Hellraiser (2019)
• Dein Herz, Meine Gier / Bunkerb!tch (2020)

• Suicide Commando (demo) (1988)
• This Is Hate (1989)
• Industrial Rape I (1990)
• Crap (1990)
• Go to Hell (1990)
• Into the Grave (1991)
• Industrial Rape II (1991)
• Black Flowers (1992)
• Electro Convulsion Therapy (1993)

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