Johnny “Blackie Onassis” Rowan died on 13 June 2023, at the age of 57.
Oui , their first studio album in 11 years, was released on January 28, 2022.
By 2019, the band had begun working on new material for the follow-up to Rock & Roll Submarine .
The Unseen remained inactive, until May 25, 2013, when they played at Punk Rock Bowling at the Fremont Country Club in Las Vegas. They have continued performing live sporadically since.
On September 19, 2010, on the free form radio program Anything Anything with Rich Russo on WRXP-FM in New York, the first Urge Overkill song in 15 years was played. The song was called “Effigy”. Russo also announced an Urge Overkill show on October 4, 2010 at Mercury Lounge in…
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Mark Unseen (real name: Mark Civitarese), who played drums on the band’s first few albums, became the lead singer after Russo’s departure. He also formed and runs ADD Records. He briefly joined the Boston punk group A Global Threat as a second singer, and recorded the full-length albums What The…
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The Plugz reunited the three founding members for The Masque 30th Anniversary Party and Book Release show on November 11, 2007, at The Echoplex in the Echo Park district of Los Angeles, California.
In May 2006, The Unseen announced on their official website that they would begin writing their sixth full-length studio album during summer that year. The album, Internal Salvation , was released on July 10, 2007. The first song released from that album is titled “Right Before Your Eyes” and was…
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In 2006, the publication of Underwood’s book, So This Is Readin’? , detailed the life and hardships of being in an underground band with dry comedy. It started as a lengthy band history on the band’s website, but after a few amusing “chapters” he was contacted by a publishing company…
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In 2004, Kato and Roeser reformed Urge Overkill without Onassis, recruiting former Gaza Strippers guitarist Mike “Hadji” Hodgkiss to play bass, keyboardist Chris Frantisak, and drummer Nate Arling. The reformed Urge Overkill performed shows at The Troubadour in West Hollywood, Double Door in Chicago, First Avenue in Minneapolis and the…
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