A musical look into the mind of the world's most infamous and feared serial killer clown. Originally from Atlanta Georgia, now based out of Portland Oregon. The band's songs are about homicide, relationships gone bad, kidnapping, rec rooms, bad circumstances, mayhem, and murder. Fronted by singer and guitarist Jack Hanley, Carlos Lee Lucas on guitar, Sean Lynn Woodfield on bass and Nigel Edward Gein on drums. They are sometime accompanied on stage by a group of clown girls called “The Gorelesque Girls”
The Wayne Gacy Trio came together in Atlanta, Georgia and later relocated to the Pacific Northwest. Now based out of Portland Oregon, they have released 3 titles “Rec Room Romance and Crawlspace Love Affairs”, “ Baby Unicorn Killers” that is a cassette release, and their EP titled “Fuck & Kill”. They are working on their next release titled DEATHFUCK due out Feb 2012 on John Wayne Gacy's birthday
The group’s music is heavy with a twist of the twisted. The band has developed a sound that is thick and rich, dripping with gruesome and smothered in grizzly. While heavy chord progressions grind away, the snare drum echoes like gunfire. Meanwhile, the bass lines are grabbing you in a sonic chokehold. The guitar solos evoke an intention of creepy. One Northwest music magazine reviewer says “The Wayne Gacy trio has sound that brings a raw beauty to the ugliness”.
The Wayne Gacy Trio takes the idea of murder rock to disturbing new dimensions by using its namesake—that'd be John Wayne Gacy, the serial-killer clown who left 33 boys dead—as a protagonist and a punchline. Fronted by the creepy, grease painted Jack Hanley, the Portland quintet ("trio" probably just sounded cooler) delivers cheeky songs about rape and murder over riff-heavy, poppish punk laced with lounge-jazz interludes. The idea is abhorrent and morally sickening. Perhaps more disturbing, however, is how listenable it actually is.
Willamette Weekly - Jan.2010
The Portland Oregon act The Wayne Gacy Trio now takes up the hapless mantle of the killer clown persona dubbing their new act “murder rock”. The band’s sound is reminiscent of other Pop Punk acts with raw organic drums, dirty hazy guitar licks, and and compelling almost spoken word vocal set. The hook… Is the lyrics and persona that set them apart from every other Portland garage band. It makes it one of the strangest acts I’ve encountered and that alone should have the fans at Fangoria musick eating their tracks up like Ed Gein at one of his Sunday afternoon Barbecues.
Fangoria Magazine - June 2009
The Wayne Gacy Trio has basically assembled an audio shrine to the legacy of famed serial killer John Wayne Gacy jr.. With songs about homicide, kidnapping, burying bodies, luring young boys into the rec room and other bad circumstances, listeners are sure to feel soiled. Dousing yourself in anti-bacterial lotion after listening is well advised, but these guys have found something else deep down in the basement - an impressive, darkly funny, debut album.
Rue Morgue Magazine - July 2009
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