Murderdolls have confirmed the official lineup for their 2027 reunion, which will see vocalist Wednesday 13, guitarist Acey Slade and bassist Eric Griffin take part in the band’s return. The announcement was made in a teaser posted on Murderdolls’ official Instagram page.
The three members will reunite for an appearance at the U.K.’s Download festival in June. The band announced the reunion in a teaser set to the track “Dead In Hollywood.”
The teaser reads, “25 years ago, evil arrived. Next year it returns.”
The confirmed reunion marks the band’s return to the stage after an extended absence.
Murderdolls were formed in 2002 by Joey Jordison, then the Slipknot drummer, and Wednesday 13, the frontman of Frankenstein Drag Queens From Planet 13. The two created the side project out of a shared love of Alice Cooper, the Misfits and 1980s glam metal. Their debut album Beyond the Valley of the Murderdolls came out on Roadrunner Records and featured songs including “Dead in Hollywood,” “Slit My Wrist” and a cover of Billy Idol’s “White Wedding.”
The band went on hiatus when Jordison returned to focus on Slipknot. They reunited in 2010 to release a second album, Women And Children Last, before splitting again in 2011. Jordison died in July 2021 at age 46. Ben “The Ghoul” Graves, the band’s debut-era drummer, died of cancer in May 2018 at age 45.
Wednesday 13 brought the band back in 2018 for a one-off show at Lucky Strike Live in Hollywood to honor Graves’s memory. That performance reunited Wednesday 13 with Griffin and Slade on stage for the first time in over a decade and featured some of Murderdolls’ classic songs. The 2022 reunion was preceded by a public dispute between Wednesday 13 and Slade over the band’s trademark. Slade had acquired the lapsed trademark, saying he did it to get the debut album back on streaming services and vinyl. Wednesday 13 accused Slade of taking over the trademark without his or the Jordison estate’s knowledge.
