Watch: STATIC-X’s XER0 Unveils New Mask At Opening Show Of ‘Rise Of The Machine’ Tour

Industrial tunes icons STATIC-X kicked off their “Increase Of The Device” U.S. tour past night (Saturday, February 25) at The Fillmore in San Francisco, California. Movie of the concert can be observed down below (courtesy of Cash Chaos Tv).

STATIC-X not long ago partnered with learn costume/prop maker Eddie Yang and his Deity Innovative to evolve the appear for guitarist/vocalist Xer0. Yang is a movie industry veteran identified for his do the job with “Avatar”, “Iron Gentleman”, “Male Of Metal”, “The Astounding Spider-Man”, “Robocop” and “Terminator: Salvation”, to title just a handful of. Eddie obtained his get started doing work with Academy Award winners Rick Baker and Stan Winston in advance of branching out on his own in 2006 with Deity Imaginative. The current Xer0 seem — which includes the new mask and wardrobe — was the consequence of a collaboration amongst DOPE frontman and imaginative director Edsel Dope — who is broadly thought to be Xer0 — and Ed McDonough from ECCO Studios and Eddie Yang. The notion for the new mask and general picture update was born out of a want from STATIC-X to evolve Xer0‘s search to match the theme of the “Increase Of The Equipment” tour. Xer0 unveiled his new glance at the San Francisco show.

Says Yang: “I have generally been a steel enthusiast and have listened to STATIC-X since their first launch ‘Wisconsin Loss of life Trip’. I am honored to lead to Wayne‘s [Static, late STATIC-X frontman] legacy and to perform with the band on their incredible eyesight for evolving STATIC-X and Xer0 into a little something that is truly distinctive. This task lastly combined my passion for character design and metal new music into a single major look at-off the bucket checklist.”

“Eddie is a genius” says Xer0. “We desired to evolve the Xer0 character into a far more cybernetic/robotic figure for the ‘Rise Of The Machine’ tour and Eddie definitely fucking killed it!!!!!!!

“Eddie took the mask to a degree that we never ever imagined attainable, and we are so stoked with the consequence,” adds bassist Tony Campos.

STATIC-X‘s eighth studio album, “Project Regeneration: Vol. 2”, is scheduled for release on November 3. The LP is a selection of 13 brand name-new tunes that comprise the last vocal performances and musical compositions of founding vocalist Wayne Static, together with the authentic “Wisconsin Demise Journey” lineup showcasing Campos, Fukuda and Jay. The new album was created by Xer0 and blended/mastered by longtime collaborator Ulrich Wild.

All of the tunes linked with “Project Regeneration: Vol. 2” is the final result of collaborations in between the four founding users alongside with their new vocalist/guitarist/producer Xer0. No extra company show up on the album and there have been no exterior contributions to the songwriting, musical compositions, or the performances on “Undertaking Regeneration: Vol. 2”. Concerning the two releases, STATIC-X lovers about the globe have been taken care of to above two dozen manufacturer new songs — most of which function Static on lead vocals — and all produced after his premature passing.

STATIC-X — showcasing the lineup of Campos, drummer Ken Jay, guitarist Koichi Fukuda and Xer0 — will strike the road in 2023, headlining the “Rise Of The Machine” tour with Anxiety Manufacturing unit alongside DOPE, MUSHROOMHEAD and TWIZTID. The 42-date trek kicks off February 25 in San Francisco, California and wraps up April 15, in Los Angeles, California. Dates have been advertising out across the nation, with select marketplaces upgrading to more substantial venues to meet up with the desire for the tour. STATIC-X also recently discovered options for a tour of Australia and an physical appearance at the Blue Ridge Rock Fest this year.

Static died after mixing Xanax and other potent prescription drugs with alcoholic beverages, according to the coroner’s report. The 48-year-previous, whose true identify was Wayne Richard Wells, was found dead in his Landers, California house on November 1, 2014.

Static founded STATIC-X in 1994 and attained professional achievement with “Wisconsin Death Trip”, which involved the rock radio strike “Force It”.

The team issued five extra studio albums before disbanding permanently in June 2013. Static had been pursuing a solo vocation at the time of his death.

Dope recently instructed Anne Erickson of Audio Ink Radio that the reason Xer0‘s identity has not been formally discovered is that he desires to make sure that STATIC-X is “adequately represented, because I would hardly ever be fascinated in on the lookout at a picture of STATIC-X or looking through a liner notice that mentions me as staying the singer of STATIC-X. Edsel Dope has no desire in staying the singer of STATIC-X,” he clarified. “You can find a single living, respiratory singer of STATIC-X, and that’s Wayne Static. And then there is certainly a character, an entity, for lack of greater words and phrases, that was designed in get to let STATIC-X to have a future and to continue on and be the legacy act that they are and tour and carry out, and we gave that character a name that is respective to STATIC-X and fits the branding of what STATIC-X is, and that’s what the significance is. It’s the relevance of recognizing the character as opposed to recognizing the person guiding the character.”

Back again in October 2019, a photograph was posted on the internet plainly demonstrating that Dope and Xer0 shared the same neck tattoo. Nevertheless, Edsel later on posted a prolonged assertion on his band’s Facebook site trying to quash the rumors, implying Xer0‘s exclusive system ink was in reality a Photoshop work. Dope even supplied a photograph of himself supposedly observing a STATIC-X efficiency sidestage to demonstrate he and Xer0 have been not the same particular person.