History Droid

There are at least four artists under this name:

1) Droid is a five-membered groove metal band from Long Beach California.

2) Droid is an organic jazz-influenced drum & bass band.

3) Droid is a Progressive Thrash/Speed Metal band from Brampton/Mississauga, Ontario.

4) Droid is a Melbourne Australia doom band

1) Droid are an American groove metal/thrash metal band with hardcore and death metal influences from Long Beach, California. They are currently signed to Korn member James "Munky" Shaffer's record label Emotional Syphon Records. The band was signed to the record label after Shaffer watched them perform live at the world renowned Whiskey-A-Go-Go. The band would also accompany Korn and Limp Bizkit on their 2003 Back 2 Basic's tour, as well as the 2006 and 2007 installments of the Family Values Tour. Droid have also worked as the backing musician's for Korn bassist Fieldy's side project Fieldy's Dreams. The band has been voted 2007 newcomer of the year at The Gauntlet, and the music video for "Fueled By Hate" was voted the #11 video of 2007 on MTV2's Headbangers Ball. It has been recently announced by the band that Duke has left DROID. They are currently auditioning new bassists.

Current line-up:

James Eason - vocals

Jamie Teissere - guitar

Bruce Childress - guitar

Nick McWells - drums

Ex-Members: Duke - Bass

2) Droid is an organic jazz-influenced drum & bass band signed to Shadow Records. All of the group's music is performed live on instruments (drums, bass, synthesizer, trumpet), with no use of loops or samples. Their album "NYC D'n'B" was released in 2000.

4) Droid is a Melbourne Australia doom band who released their debut "Province" in April 2017 and "Hyperreality" in November 2019

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