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Static-X are a four-piece Industrial Metal band from Los Angeles, California, USA. Formed in 1994. Static-X are signed to Warner Bros. Records. Static-X have released five albums, their most recent being Cannibal, which was released on April 3, 2007.

Static-X was formed in 1994 from the ashes of Wayne Static and Ken Jay’s former band, Deep Blue Dream. Wayne and Ken originally met at the Chicago record store where Jay worked, and were introduced to one another by Smashing Pumpkins vocalist Billy Corgan (Static-X also shared a rehearsal space with Smashing Pumpkins for a time). Once Deep Blue Dream folded, Static and Jay moved to Los Angeles to search for new band members. There, they met bassist Tony Campos and guitarist Koichi Fukuda, completing Static-X original lineup.

Static-X signed with Warner Bros. Records in early 1998, and released their debut album, Wisconsin Death Trip, on March 23, 1999 and soon after, Static-X released their first single "Push It", followed by "I'm With Stupid" and "Bled For Days" in 2000. Static-X toured strictly in support of the album and twice performed on Ozzfest. In the following year the little-known EP, The Death Trip Continues, was released. In 2001, Wisconsin Death Trip went platinum and is, to date, Static-X’s only album to reach this success.

Static-X has contributed numerous tracks from this album to video game soundtracks and for other promotional applications. The song "Otsegolation" was used in the PlayStation video game, Omega Boost, where it is featured in the main menu and the final boss sequence; and the Static-X song "Push It" to the games "Street Skater 2" and "Duke Nukem: Land of the Babes" both also for the Playstation game console. An instrumental of "Love Dump" was used as the entrance music for Kronik in World Championship Wrestling (WCW) and World Wrestling Entertainment (WWE). This version was later used by Steven Richards.

After recording their follow-up album Machine, Koichi Fukuda left Static-X to spend time with his family and pursue other musical opportunities. As Fukuda’s replacement, Tripp Eisen, formerly of Dope, stepped in. Machine was released May 22, 2001 to major success, and shortly after, Static-X began work on their third album, Shadow Zone, this time with Eisen performing and writing on the album. However, before Static-X could start recording, Ken Jay left Static-X due to musical and political differences. To drum on the album, Josh Freese of A Perfect Circle and The Vandals was brought in. Later, Nick Oshiro, formerly of Seether, was selected as Jay’s replacement and Static-X permanent drummer. During production of the album Jonathan Davis of KoRn contacted Wayne Static to record the vocals for a song he wrote for the Queen of the Damned soundtrack, entitled "Not Meant For Me". Shadow Zone was later released on October 7, 2003. Static-X continued their affiliation with video game soundtracks: from Machine, "This Is Not" was included in the video game Shaun Palmer's Pro Snowboarder; from Shadow Zone, "The Only" is found on the soundtrack of Need for Speed: Underground, while "Start A War" was included in the video game WWE SmackDown! vs. RAW 2006.

July 20, 2004 saw the release of Beneath... Between... Beyond..., a collection of rarities and demos. Due to the release, this was thought by many to be the end of Static-X. However, shortly after the release of Beneath... Between... Beyond..., the band commenced work on their fourth studio album, Start a War. On February, 2005 Tripp Eisen was arrested in a sex scandal involving minors, and was therefore fired from Static-X. Former guitarist Koichi Fukuda, who had been mixing the new album, rejoined Static-X to fill the gap left by Eisen. Start a War was finally released June 14, 2005. "I'm the One" and "Dirthouse" were released as singles from the album. From this album, the song "Skinnyman" is in the soundtrack of the famous 2005 street racing video game Need For Speed: Most Wanted.

Cannibal, released April 3, 2007, marked the studio return of their original guitarist, Koichi Fukuda.

One of the new tracks called "No Submission" is available on the Saw III Soundtrack. The full track has also been released on Static-X's MySpace page. Cannibal was released as a digital download single at iTunes. Destroyer will be the lead off radio single later in February, before the album's release. Videos for the single songs were supposed to be taken at the same time. A promotional Cannibal EP has also been released. The EP contains album versions of "Cannibal," "No Submission," and a radio edit version of "Forty Ways". On March 20 the upcoming album was preceded with an exclusive Destroyer EP. The video for Destroyer has also been produced and is available now at headbangersball.com. The album itself debuted at #36 in the U.S. with sales of over 30,000.

On May 10, 2007 it was announced that Static-X will be playing on the main stage at Ozzfest 2007. Additionally, in a recent interview, Wayne Static announced his side-project called "Pighammer".

Static-X cite Ministry, Prong, Pantera and Type O Negative as major musical influences. They are frequently linked to these bands by fans and critics, along with others such as White Zombie, Nine Inch Nails, Fear Factory, Danzig, and Coal Chamber. Though they have described their music as "evil disco" or "rhythmic trancecore", Static-X's sound shares much in common with their industrial metal influences, using heavy overdrive distortion, keyboards, pounding bass riffs, and fast-paced, angry vocals. Songs generally apply heavy use of synthesizers and insertion of samples such as snippets of movie dialogue. For example, A Dios Alma Perdida samples spaceship drone sound effects and alien chatter from the film Laserblast.