Amoeba Music

The Flesh Eaters were one of LA’s great punk bands, led by Chris D., a brilliant poet, film scholar and screamer who wrote for Slash Magazine. D. founded the Flesh Eaters in 1977, and the band played its first show at the Masque on December 21 of that year. Though it is not clear who was in the band at the first show, Tito Larriva of the Plugz, most of the Eyes, half of X, three Blasters and some of Wall of Voodoo all passed through the Flesh Eaters during the band’s first years. Chris D. got LA band the Flyboys to back him on the Flesh Eaters’ first 7-inch EP, “Disintegration Nation” (1978), released on his own Upsetter Records. The Flesh Eaters next appeared on D.’s classic California punk compilation Tooth And Nail... Read More