Ontario band slangdoll is a high energy heavy rock feast. Their music is an interesting blend of metal and rock. You will find it hard to put these guys in single genre if your a picky son of a bitch... The vocals are somewhat black metal styled however; there are many moments in their set that the vocals come off delicate and clean proving extra diversity to the band and adding to the different degrees of heaviness and power. The drums are amazing! There are lots of fast double kick and slow precision. Heavy chunky riffs and stylistic lead solos make Slangdoll an amazing display of wicked alturnative metal. Slangdoll tries to deliver a live band experience to remember with no paper.

Our album Container Poison has just always been known as and referred to as the green album. It wasn’t even given an album title until very shortly before it’s completion in July 9th 2004. The green album (Container Poison) was recorded at the Idol Lounge by Farns January 6th 2004 and mixed and mastered in Weichel ’s bedroom until completely finished on July 9th 2004.

Container Poison is an album that has been in the works for over a year before recording at the Idol Lounge was done. It started out in the snowy winter weather of 2002 4Q. Weichel and Jenkins met thru an ad at Fanshawe College and started their practices and place of musical focus in his old apartment. Songs on acoustic guitar with fresh powerful rhythmic beats on drums mixed as they naturally do and we were set on creating music together. They explored each others influences and remembered older songs they liked and forgot about. Things went a step further at the start of the summer 2003, that’s where songs really started to form. Weichel and Jenkins decided they were going to form a band together. Drums, guitar and vocals being half way to a full band, they needed to find the 2 new guys that will be long lasting musical partners.

With June 2003 came the recording of the first test demos of the green album.  Recordings were made with one room microphone picking up all the drum tracks and then guitar, bass and vocals being layered on top later.  Most of the songs ended up keeping their original format from test version to album version, but some songs took on completely new life from one recording to the next.  Some songs which were recorded in the demoing period from June until mid October were scrapped, but kept for future reference.  With the songs laid down in a basic format, it was time to complete slangdoll’s lineup.

They needed a bassist to join so they placed ads around London. Replying to a poster put up at the college in London, they got a hold of a bass player named Scott Williams (Yamzz). That week in October 2003 the group met each other and started to get things in order.

January 2004 is when the bed tracks were recorded at the Idol Lounge for the album version of Container Poison. 8 mics on the original tracking was what was needed for this album's sound. 6 drum mics and 2 guitar mics were used. The 2 guitar amps used were a Fender champion 110 and an Orange amp. The drum set was a tama imperialstar. 12 drum tracks and rhythm guitar tracks were recorded in the span of one night, with some vocals and guitar overdubbing being added later the next day. Everything was recorded onto a computer hard drive so things could later be completed at Weichel’s studio (bedroom).  Bass overdubs and synthesizer were added as well.  Over the next 9 months work on the album was done with layer after layer being added to the band’s sound.  The concept of the album is the colour green.

In February 2004, with the album on its way, Slangdoll started to audition lead guitarists.  Ads were placed on the internet and through local areas, and a few guitarists replied.  Most were very good, but something just seemed to be missing from the mix.  Matt Grady, a lead guitarist and fellow classmate of Weichel and Yamzz, came to audition in late February. They were blown away by Grady's performance and shortly after invited him to join. With the new addition of Grady and the group complete, Slangdoll was finally ready to play live.

What does Slangdoll mean?

Slang = Fake, an informal nonstandard arbitrarily changed action.
Doll = Puppet or marionette, plastic, play toy.
Slangdoll = Rejected or defiled, Angel of dirt and grotesque, Being used and abused, Fallen angel, Something that doesn't belong and is defiled; puke on a white dress, children robbed of innocence. 
Slangdoll could be futher explained as a dead woman being controlled by society, but she isn't dead. A living zombie where other people control her every move by buying magazines and watching TV.

How’d we come up with it?

Weichel and Jenkins were thinking, talking on messenger about what they thought was creepy and dolls came up. The idea of fake and disgust spawned from thinking of plastic dolls. Dolls also bring a feminine feeling which is where the idea of an angel came from, then lead to the idea of something in slang, such as a fallen angel of dirt and worthlessness. Slangdoll was a decided name after only 2 hours of on-line chatting back and forth. It’s pretty fucked up. John Carpenter's Halloween anong many other scary horror features could have influenced this madness.
Almost everyone is fake and we wanted to make an original statement towards the fake lies people put infrount of them., We thought of dolls and how creepy they were, came across angel in a thesaurus and went to the anti - angel, and saw slang. through further dictionary and thesaurus research, they thought of how a rejected angel could also be referred to as a slang/doll, slangdoll isn't a word but thats what we wanted. Something completly original and difficult to understand. Slangdoll is one of a kind!

Slangdoll go on as 4 strong now from February 2004 to May 2005 trying to leave a strong enough infection that the Slangdoll spreads across the world. During this 15th month period Slangdoll has played an average of 4 shows a month with many amazing bands and they have learned a lot from them and also decided to take this business seriously while rediscovering each other and ourselves in the process.

In M ay 2005 Grady and Slangdoll agree that Slangdoll is better off to look for a new guitarist. Slangdoll is in no rush to find a new guitar player as 3 people in a band works for them just fine. The sound is tighter with less noise. Weichel has spent time re-learning all the solos he backed off from earlier so in turn the departure of Grady has made Weichel much sharper on the guitar. Slangdoll is much stronger and is continuing to be known as a solid 3 piece from May 2005 to August 2006.

After Grady left the band Slangdoll started planning a second album titled Retention to be released sometime in 2007 and it’s drenched in Red. The red album is a new collection of 12 songs delivered from evil and lovely romantic desires. Songs are headed in a more intense direction as well as romantic. The slow parts are slower and much more moving; the heavy parts are turned up. All directions were increased to make for a powerful and very different Slangdoll sound from the green to red.

Slangdoll has been working hard on writing the red album, always keeping in mind that they will eventually be looking for a new lead guitarist. It was like a breath of fresh air for them to play as a three piece as it showed determination of the band to continue, grow, and adapt.

In no way did Grady leave the band on a bad note. Grady has continued to show support to the band. Grady, since his departure as been working hard continuing his education as a music industry artist (production and engineering). Weichel knew that even though Grady left the band because of personal conflicts with the blasphemous subject matter but he would definitely continue to influence and play a key role is what makes Slangdoll who they are today.

Weichel has always loved Grady's solo works of musical art and is well aware of his talents in the studio. Grady has started his own production company called Chopped Up Audio and he has agreed to produce 4 new Slangdoll songs on the new record "Retention."

Slangdoll and Vinyl Ax will be the first two bands to release CD’s with Chopped Up Audio and they couldn’t be more excited to be among friends with this new and exciting production company. The album Retention is still not complete, but we’ve foreseen a great piece of work that kick starts the success of this new production company based in London. Look for Slangdoll shows with Vinyl Ax in the future!

During the first few months of recording Slangdoll knew it was very important to finally get serious about discovering the future lead guitarist and become the true full 4 piece band to excel the vast potential of the band once again.

After touring and playing many shows, they discovered real identity and individualism. Slangdoll stands out as the heaviest act at a pop rock show or stands out as an alternative unique band at a full blown metal show. Basically Slangdoll can fit into any show and hold their own. Coming to terms that Slangdoll is not a hardcore metal band we knew that it wasn't imperative to get a one dimensional guitar player. This is where Mike Ivanov comes into the picture.

Ivanov is one of Weichel's oldest friends...in fact, Ivanov taught Weichel how to play guitar when they were kids. Ivanov and Weichel are a great team of writers and guitar players simply because of the strong friendship they have and their heightened ability to communicate to each other. Weichel had been thinking about Ivanov as a guitarist ever since Grady left in May 2005, but he wasn't totally sure if Ivanov would be interested in, what at the time was a band going in a full on heavy metal direction.

Once Slangdoll took a step back and thought about the future of the band, they discovered that it was important to not continue with overwhelming strength in one direction of a musical style. Weichel was quickly increasing the desire to write and perform black metal while Yamzz continued to express slow heavy groves in his style and Josh has always been up for everything pushing the band to challenge themselves in many different styles including punk, thrash, pop, and country.

Jenkins and Weichel are now looking into performing there unique styles in intelligent separations rather than try to blend all the different influences together at the same time, kind like how Container Poison is. Container Poison is probably best described as an alternative/hard rock record. The 2004 demo does a great job of showing Slangdoll in the raw. It has a consistent heavy, almost like mixing metal and alternative rock together. The new Slangdoll record is designed to be more broken up; each track has its own individualism. Where Container Poison basically has a similar medium/fast tempo through out, Retention has very slow sections and as an equal reaction, it contains ball busting quickness.

Back to how Ivanov fit into all of this. This was the perfect time to ask Ivanov to be in the band because we had a much clearer picture of where we were headed as far as the style and diversity of the band. Ivanov is brilliant at the guitar and with everyone open to become much more unique and diverse there was no better person for Slangdoll to have that completes them once again as 4.

Retention was written in 2005/2006 while Mike Ivanov wasn't in the band; however this has not stopped him from freely adding his own special touch while performing live from August 2007 to March 10 2007. Slangdoll stopped playing shows completely in March 2007.

Recording there new songs had been so fucked up and shows began to fucking blow and Slangdoll was all out of fun. Personal conflicts grew within the band and Slangdoll officially broke up in June 2007.

Weichel and Jenkins have been talking about a Resurrection of Slangdoll but it would 't be without major causalities. There has been a sense of gloom around Slangdoll for a while...with that feeling an overwhelming urge to be creative surfaced. It has almost been one year since Retention was written and while the album is still being recorded in the studio with Jenkins and Weichel, Slangdoll has broken up. Slangdoll is dead... Weichel and Jenkins are working on new material and are excited to hold auditions for 2 new members in the Toronto area 1Q08.