Shotgun Messiah

In 1985, four Swedish band members were Zinny J. Zan (song), Tim Skold (alias "Tim Tim"), Harry K. Cody (guitar) and Pekka "Stixx" Ollinen (battery). They release an album, Welcome To Bop City, before moving to Los Angeles and taking advantage of it to change name and become Shotgun Messiah.
They choose to re-release their previous album, which they will transform into an eponymous album, to create a place under the Californian sun. Shotgun Messiah develops a style oriented towards the metal glam, running in full effervescence with groups of beautiful scalped males such as Mötley Crüe or Twisted Sister, often ironically quoted as "hair metal" groups. Soon after that, Zan left the band and Tim Skold seized the microphone and took his real name.
Second Coming arrived in the ferries in 1991 and corresponds to the period when the band won the most success, mainly thanks to the tube Heartbreak Bvld . This album marks a transition to a more industrial metal, under the influence of Skold. However, Shotgun Messiah is also somewhat punking towards the punk with the release of EP covers ( The Stooges , New York Dolls , Ramones ).
Cody and Skold are alone on board in 1993 for the 3rd album, Violent New Breed, clearly turning this time towards lindus. A tour will follow but the band will quickly split for "musical divergences". Tim Skold will really be the only one to pursue a great career (even if Zan will found Zan Clan), first with a solo project and then by actively engaging with KMFDM and then Marilyn Manson.