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Jon Butcher is an American rock and blues singer and guitarist and freelance multimedia producer. A Jimi Hendrix disciple... Jon Butcher achieved some moderate chart success in the mid-'80s as the singer/guitarist for the Jon Butcher Axis. Coming out of the Boston club scene in the early '80s, the Butcher Axis (which also included members Chris Mann on bass and Derek Blevins on drums), issued such albums as 1983's self-titled debut, 1984's Stare at the Sun, and 1985's Along the Axis (Butcher dropped the Axis for such releases as 1986's Wishes and 1989's Pictures From the Front), opened for local...

Bloodthirsty Butchers were a Japanese rock band formed in 1987 consisting of Yoshimura Hideki, Imoriya Takeshi, Komatsu Masahiro, and Tabuchi Hisako. Formed by high school classmates Yoshimura and Imoriya, Komatsu joined the group when the original drummer left shortly after the band's formation. After finding acclaim in the Sapporo punk scene, the band left for Tokyo along with many others in search of greater success. Their first three albums were characterized by Yoshimura's haphazard guitar playing, aggressive shouting and expansive, wandering song structures. The group attracted the attention of foreign acts such as Fugazi and Rage Against The Machine, and...

The Jazz Butcher Conspiracy, also known as The Jazz Butcher and The Jazz Butcher And His Sikkorskis From Hell, is a blackly humorous and (until the early nineties) prolific British musical group founded by Pat Fish, a philosophy major from Oxford. Their oeuvre boasts such topics as Thomas Pynchon's The Crying of Lot 49, an unrequited crush on Shirley Maclaine, and an ode to SF writer Harlan Ellison. .

1) The Butcher, a Dutch band founded in 1996. They released 5 full length albums up till 2008. Latest release is "Bad Blood", which is the first album the band released theirselves. They also appeared on 5 compilation albums, including a DRI tribute and the Astro Zombies release, which is of course a Misfits tribute. One of the guitar players (Eric van den Boom) is also a famous artworker, who worked for several bands, including Peter Pan Speedrock, de Heideroosjes, The Golden Earring and Rowwen Heze. The Butcher is known for their punk-metal music, spiked with lots of humor. Their...