The White Mice
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The White Mice | |
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| Origin | Providence, Rhode Island, U.S. |
| Genres | Noise Noisegrind Sludge metal |
| Years active | 2001–present |
| Labels | Load Records, Blossoming Noise |
| Members | MOUSEaTONGUE PHLEgMMY KILLMICESTER ANONyMOUSE |
| Past members | AutomRATon CHeddie CoCHeese Euronymouse Euronynonymouse Ganjameice Maus Kinski MoustRATdumbass Ol' DuRTY MOUSE TURD a.k.a. Big Baby Cheesus Swiss Miss a.k.a. The Virgin Scary The Chesident Verminator X Vincent Mice |
The White Mice are an experimental, industrial, noise rock, and noisegrind band from Providence, Rhode Island. They consist of vocals, drums, bass, and electronics, but in live performances often have a rotation of guest members playing guitars, electronica, and custom, unidentifiable circuit-bent instruments.
Formed in late 2001, the band's first live performance on Halloween took titular and visual inspiration from an old, open sewers era, British slang, for used tampons and tissue floating in a sewer, slang still in use by plumbers today. They are known to use any level of humor, portmanteau terms and re-imagined puns throughout much of their work. (for example, they refer to their myspace as their "micespace").[1] The strong sense of irreverence, humor and creativity in all their work brought them a cult following as the band continues to play and tour often. On stage they adorn bloody lab outfits and custom circuit-bent mouse masks, and create a harsh, furious sound, a mix of bass and drum heavy rhythms, thick with distortion and wound full of howling live electronic manipulation and blistering vocals.
They have toured with Lightning Bolt, USA Is a Monster, Coughs, An Albatross, Skinny Puppy, Dj Scotch Egg, Bolz'n, Pleasurehorse, Suffering Bastard, and Athletic Automaton.
They have self-released several records, including "Mouse of Mendes" and a Christmas album entitled "Do They Know It's Christmice?" before being signed to Load Records, where they recorded and released two more albums. Further records have been released on the Blossoming Noise label of Atlanta Georgia, as well as several independent labels.
Members
- Current
- MOUSEaTONGUE - bass, vocals
- ANONyMOUSE - oscillator, theremins, kaoss, samples, tape machines
- PHLEgMMY KILLMICESTER - drums
- Former
- AutomRATon - Guitard
- CHeddie - sawblades
- CoCHeese - drums
- Euronymouse - Rat Skins
- Euronynonymouse - Tapes
- Ganjameice - drums
- Maus Kinski - Saxophone, zither, chair, cheesus, guitard, contact mic, misc.
- Mouseferatu - bass, vocals
- MoustRATdumbass - Guitard
- Ol' DuRTY MOUSE TURD a.k.a. Big Baby Cheesus - Electronics, Hype, Chaos
- Swiss Miss a.k.a. The Virgin Scary - backup
- The Chesident - Traps
- Verminator X - Guitard
- Vincent Mice - Guitard
