Artist · chart history
Gravity Kills
Band St. Louis United States Active 1994–2012
Gravity Kills formed in 1994 in St. Louis, United States and was active until 2012. Gravity Kills has 22 chart appearances on 22 radio countdowns from 14 stations on RockLists, spanning 1996–2009. The most successful song on radio countdowns is “Guilty”, which appears on 20 lists with a best position of #5. The station that charted Gravity Kills most often is KROQ (Los Angeles, CA), with 5 appearances. The artist’s biggest year on year-end countdowns was 1996.
Gravity Kills came crawling out of St. Louis in 1994 with a sound built for the moment: grinding industrial beats, distorted vocals and, crucially, a chorus you could actually hum. Jeff Scheel, Doug Firley, Kurt Kerns and Matt Dudenhoffer spent a short spell on the local circuit before TVT Records signed them in late 1995.
Their self-titled debut in 1996 was the breakthrough, and "Guilty" was the reason: a clanging, paranoid stomp that found a second life on soundtracks. Their songs turned up in Mortal Kombat, Se7en and Escape from L.A., plus the Test Drive video games, and they took the show on the road with a strange range of company, from the Sex Pistols to Pigface, Local H and Sevendust.
Perversion, in 1998, couldn't match the debut's success, though "Falling" got some rock radio play. They moved to Sanctuary Records for Superstarved in 2002, and "One Thing" was their best showing on the rock charts, but the label support dried up, tensions inside the band grew, and they called it quits. They've reunited for one-off shows and more since, proof that industrial rock never really dies; it just goes into standby.
Written with AI assistance from RockLists chart data, MusicBrainz and Wikipedia.
Songs by Gravity Kills on radio countdowns
Albums with charting songs
Where each song was first released, from MusicBrainz.
Year-end chart timeline
Combined year-end countdown points per year. Taller bars mean more songs placing higher across more stations.
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