“The show that night was wild and drunken, and the only thing keeping the show from spinning away into complete chaos was the frayed thread of a punk community that stitched together everyone at the show.”
“Besides a guy with a cowboy hat, no one liked us, plus Brendan’s amp was fucked up and I kept slipping on the wet basement floor.”
“Pausing and thinking back, all the bad stuff that night; illness, cops and AWOL gas caps had happened on Valentines Day.”
“About nobody came to our Richmond show, so we made it a free show. I got naked and poured Brendan’s fake blood (maple syrup, water and food coloring) all over my privates.”
58-song cassette & digital release containing all the recorded output of the Flesh Eating Creeps
Recorded Fall ‘98 at Signal Studios by Kimmy’s Dad
Recorded Fall ‘98 at Signal Studios by Kimmy’s Dad
Recorded March ’98 at Urban Geek Studios by Mike Hearst
Recorded March ’97 on 4-Track in FEC Practice Space by Henry Cornelius Terry III
Recorded March ’97 on 4-Track in FEC Practice Space by Henry Cornelius Terry III
Recorded Fall ‘96 on 4-Track in Brendan’s Basement by FEC
Recorded Summer ‘96 on 4-Track in Brendan’s Basement by FEC
Recorded Spring ‘96 on 4-Track in Brendan’s Basement by FEC
Recorded March ’96 on 4-Track in Brendan’s Basement by Henry Cornelius Terry III
Recorded September ’95 on Boombox in Brendan’s Basement
Flesh Eating Creeps play their last show at The Parkhouse on Adam Juresko’s birthday, May 19, 2000, with Waifle, Churl, Sassafras Jones & Bucko Biggs, and Lewistown.
Steve is accepted to Warren Wilson College in Asheville, NC and announces that he will be quitting Flesh Eating Creeps before summer. Over spring break, the band does a weeklong final tour of the south and midwest with Richmond/NoVa band Churl, featuring Jonny Z on drums. The tour is called “Sweet Week.” The bands travel… Read more »
1007 Park, AKA The Parkhouse, becomes the band’s home base. Basement shows are hosted for Strike Anywhere, Jerome’s Dream, Sassafras Jones & Bucko Biggs, Bobby Joe Ebola & The Children McNuggets, Pg. 99, Majority Rule, Devola, and I Robot. There are regular vegan potlucks, and multiple nights spent on the porch yelling at the alterna-frat… Read more »
The 805 W. Cary house is evicted in June, after the landlord erects a fence directly behind the house, and someone spraypaints “SLUMLORD” on it in huge letters. There is a giant house-trashing party, played by Flesh Eating Creeps, Kojak, and PCP Roadblock. The band embarks on their longest tour, playing fourteen shows up and… Read more »
Joey begins missing practice a lot. One day, Steve Ritt sits in on drums. His playing meshes well with the faster, more technical new material that Brendan is writing, and Joey leaves Flesh Eating Creeps. Steve is replaced on bass by VCU freshman from Virginia Beach, Ryan Joy, who heard Brendan talking at a party… Read more »
Brendan moves in 805 W. Cary St. and Flesh Eating Creeps begin sharing the basement practice space with Lewistown, The Exploder, Four Hundred Years, and Wheelbite. Nat quits. Former Neurotiks drummer Steve Ritt, who has also moved into 805 W. Cary St., joins on bass. A lot of bands play shows in the 805 basement,… Read more »
Nat Wachman fills in on bass. The self-titled 7” is self-released, with Gullible Zine #14 included. The band does a weekend tour to New York to play Long Island and ABC No Rio, and Steve Roche records them at WNYU. The Dodge breaks down in Long Island, stranding the band for almost a week. They… Read more »
In March, Chris moves into the long-running 805 W. Cary St. punkhouse. Over college spring break, Flesh Eating Creeps do a weekend of shows in Tennessee and Roanoke, Virginia, playing with crust band Kakistocracy. The band records their self-titled 7” with Michael Hearst at Urban Geek Studios on Southside Richmond. Altfeld leaves the band after… Read more »
Chris and Brendan begin attending Virginia Commonwealth University (VCU). Brendan rents the bottom floor of 3123 Park Ave. with Joey and a few friends, including Tony Bitch from The Neurotiks and Joey’s childhood best friend Kenneth Harris. Flesh Eating Creeps begin practicing in the dining room. The four songs from that spring are released by… Read more »
Chris and Brendan graduate from Open High School. Matt Neagle leaves Flesh Eating Creeps, and the band temporarily becomes a three-piece, with Brendan playing in stereo through a guitar amp and a bass amp that is hooked up to an octave pedal. The band borrows Joey’s mother’s minivan for their first weekend tour, playing Spartanburg, SC… Read more »
With the help of Chris’s father, Flesh Eating Creeps record four songs for Amendment Records, on the four-track, in the practice space. The band’s second out-of-town show is in January at the 180 Club in Hagerstown, MD. As the band begins listening to more heavy metal, as well as more technical punk like Born Against,… Read more »
Having been booted from Brendan’s parents’ West Ave. basement because of noise complaints, Flesh Eating Creeps begin practicing above a record store just east of Lombardy on W. Broad St. The space is shared with a garage rock band called The Halfways, and Brendan’s other bands, Rukus and an early incarnation of Tri-State Killing Spree…. Read more »
Flesh Eating Creeps continue to play shows at Richmond all ages venues like Twisters, St. Edward’s Church (Huguenot Rd.) and the Biograph Theater (814 W. Grace St.). The band’s sound grows less melodic, and more influenced by early ‘80s DC hardcore, and they record a second demo, also on the four-track.
After playing a couple more battles of the bands, Flesh Eating Creeps play their first all ages club show in January. The show is at Twisters (929 W. Grace St., a long-running Richmond venue that has had multiple names, and, as of the time of this release, is called Strange Matter), with DC/NoVa band The… Read more »
Over the holidays, Jonathan Holloway’s family moves to Indiana, and he is replaced on bass by Matt Neagle of the pop-punk band Phelics. The band begins practicing on the Neagle property in rural Amelia, VA, following directions from Richmond that include the phrase “turn left at the Coke machine.”
On September 30, 1995, Flesh Eating Creeps play their first show, at the James River High School Battle of the Bands. The lineup was Joey Fitchett on drums, Jonathan Holloway on bass, Brendan Trache on guitar, Chris Terry on vocals. All members were in 11th or 12th grade. Earlier that day, Brendan and Chris had… Read more »
Jonathan Holloway of Monacan High School joins on bass. After meeting Brendan during a tour of arts magnet school Open High, Chris Terry, new in town from Boston, MA, joins the band as vocalist.
New in Richmond from Alexandria, VA, guitarist Brendan Trache begins playing with drummer Joey Fitchett after meeting through a “musicians wanted” ad at Soundhole Records. The band goes through numerous lineup changes early on, and plays one show under the name Protoculture at Henry Street Gallery with a lineup that includes future Flesh Eating Creeps… Read more »
Flesh Eating Creeps Churl Waifle Lewistown Sassafrass Jones & Bucko Biggs
Facade Burned Black Flashbulb Memory Flesh Eating Creeps Lewistown
From Ashes Rise Crucible Flesh Eating Creeps Killed In Action
John Q. Public Flesh Eating Creeps Churl
Flesh Eating Creeps Churl Kakistocracy
Flesh Eating Creeps Churl Jack Palance Band Let The Day Begin The Retreads Zegota Face Down In Shit
Neversai Flesh Eating Creeps
Flesh Eating Creeps Bucket Of Monkey Tin Fish
Flesh Eating Creeps Initial Detonation Tri-State Killing Spree Lycosa Jackie Chan
Flesh Eating Creeps Eulcid Dead Time + 1 TBA
Creeps On Candy Flesh Eating Creeps + TBA
Photo by Eva Writt
Yaphet Kotto Flesh Eating Creeps Jackie Chan Murdock PCP Roadblock Monotonashhfuck
Crispus Attucks De Nada A//Political Hands Held Out Flesh Eating Creeps The Scam
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Photos by Chris Kirby
Flesh Eating Creeps Two Man Advantage The Infertil Red Angel Dragnet
Flesh Eating Creeps were a 1990s Richmond, Virginia hardcore punk band whose members went on to form the bands Brainworms, City Of Caterpillar, Light The Fuse And Run, Municipal Waste, Stop It!! and Worn In Red.
The two constant members, Chris Terry and Brendan Trache, worked with old friend Will Cole of Handstand Records to digitize vinyl and tape recordings, scan photos and flyers, and compile as much information as possible for this comprehensive, 58-song discography that includes deluxe and standard cassette releases, a Bandcamp download/stream, and an archival band website.