Pre-Grunge Seattle Band MALFUNKSHUN Reforms

October 24, 2006

Greg Prato of Billboard.com reports: Although it never recorded a full-length album or toured outside Washington state, Seattle band MALFUNKSHUN is often cited as an important band amid the grunge family tree. Now, 16 years after the death of singer Andy Wood, MALFUNKSHUN is reactivating.

An anomaly amid bands playing back-to-basics rock'n'roll, MALFUNKSHUN featured the white makeup-faced Wood alongside his guitarist brother Kevin, who shredded like Yngwie Malmsteen, creating a punk/speed metal hybrid. To craft new MALFUNKSHUN music, Kevin and fellow surviving member Regan Hagar have pacted with singer Shawn Smith (SATCHEL, BRAD) and bassist Cory Kane.

"I have a stack of Andy's lyrics that I've been hanging onto for the past 15 years or so, since he died — I never gave them up," Wood tells Billboard.com. "And they're all from the early '80s, when Andy was about 14 through 16. I always wanted to make songs out of them."

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