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Spineshank
Band Los Angeles United States Formed 1996
Spineshank formed in 1996 in Los Angeles, United States. Spineshank has 4 chart appearances on 3 radio countdowns from 3 stations on RockLists, spanning 2001. The most successful song on radio countdowns is “Synthetic”, which appears on 1 list with a best position of #51. The station that charted Spineshank most often is WBER (Rochester, NY), with 2 appearances. The artist’s biggest year on year-end countdowns was 2001.
Spineshank came out of Los Angeles in 1996 with Jonny Santos on guitar and lead vocals, Mike Sarkisyan on guitar and piano, Robert Garcia on bass and backing vocals, and Tommy Decker on drums and keyboards. They landed on Roadrunner Records and set about grinding nu metal against the cold machinery of industrial metal.
Strictly Diesel was the 1998 debut, but The Height of Callousness, in 2000, is where the formula snapped into focus: clanking electronic textures, riffs that lurch like heavy equipment, and Santos swinging from a snarl to a melodic hook. "New Disease" is the calling card, as tight and nasty as anything the genre produced. Self-Destructive Pattern followed in 2003.
Santos left in 2004, and Brandon Espinoza took over the lead vocals from 2005. The band got a fourth studio album out in 2012, Anger Denial Acceptance.
Written with AI assistance from RockLists chart data, MusicBrainz and Wikipedia.
Songs by Spineshank on radio countdowns
| # | Song | Strength | Lists | Best | #1s | Peak year |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Synthetic | 1 | #51 | – | 2001 | |
| 2 | New Disease | 3 | #56 | – | 2001 |
Albums with charting songs
Where each song was first released, from MusicBrainz.
Every countdown appearance
| Year | # | Song | Countdown |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2001 | 94 | New Disease | WFNX Top 100 Songs of 2001 |
| 2001 | 56 | New Disease | WCCC Top 106 Songs of 2001 |
| 2001 | 51 (tie) | Synthetic | WBER Listener Countdown 2001 |
| 2001 | 181 (tie) | New Disease | WBER Listener Countdown 2001 |
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