Wisconsin Death Trip<\/em>. The whole album cost $50,000 to make – peanuts in the heady days of the late 90s. There was just one catch: they wanted the band to change their name.<\/p>\n\u201cThey said \u2018Static\u2019 would be too hard to market,\u201d says Tony. \u201cWe were, like, [noncommittally], \u2018Uh, OK, sure.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n
The first taste the wider world got of the newly-christened Static-X came when Bled For Days<\/em> appeared on the soundtrack of 1998 comedy-horror movie Bride Of Chucky<\/em>. It was followed early the next year by Wisconsin Death Trip<\/em>, which took its name from a book looking at a series of bizarre deaths in late 19th century Wisconsin. Their timing was impeccable. The band arrived as nu metal transitioned from buzzy scene-to-watch into all-conquering cultural force, even if it was a tag the band were unhappy with being saddled with.<\/p>\nPush It<\/em> was the first single released from the album, accompanied by a striking part-claymation video. It reached No.57 on the US singles chart, still the band\u2019s biggest single. And it received the ultimate accolade \u2013 the stripper seal of approval.<\/p>\n\n\n
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Wayne Static: gone but definitely not forgotten <\/span>(Image credit: Press)<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\u201cThe coolest moment was going into a strip club and seeing a girl dancing naked to it,\u201d says Tony. \u201cIt wasn\u2019t like we announced ourselves coming in.\u201d<\/p>\n
Propelled by Push It<\/em>, Wisconsin Death Trip<\/em> went on to sell more than a million copies in the US. Yet the years that followed were marked by line-up changes and diminishing commercial returns. By the end of the decade, insurmountable tensions between Wayne and Tony \u2013 the two remaining original members \u2013 precipitated the end of the band, bar a brief and underwhelming attempt by the singer to resurrect the band with a new line-up in the early 2010s. Wayne\u2019s drug-related death in 2014 seemingly brough the curtain down on Static-X permanently.<\/p>\nBut there was an unexpected twist. In 2018, Tony Campos, Ken Jay and Koichi Fukuda relaunched the band, subsequently recruiting a new singer, Xer0 (actually Dope frontman Edsel Dope in a zombie Wayne Static mask). They\u2019ve subsequently released two albums featuring music written by their late frontman, but they still close every show with the song he wrote more than a quarter of a century ago that lifted its sound from Ministry and Prong and its title from Salt \u2019N\u2019 Pepa.<\/p>\n
\u201cPush It<\/em> is just a fun song,\u2019 says Tony Campos. \u201cEverybody can sing along to that chorus, no matter what language they speak. It just gets people dancing.\u201d<\/p>\nWisconsin Death Trip (25th Anniversary Corrosive Edition) is out now on Otsego Entertainment Group. Static-X play Download Festival in June<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n \u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n \u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source www.loudersound.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"On May 14, 1996, an aspiring industrial metal three-piece took to the stage of Bar Deluxe, a two-floor club in a grotty area of Hollywood known as Crack Central. Someone captured grainy footage of the band, which has inevitably found its way to YouTube. The short clip focuses on their frontman, a skinny dude with […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2391381,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[25179],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2391380","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-music"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/Static-X-Push-It-the-story-of-the-song-and.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2391380","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2391380"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2391380\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2391382,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2391380\/revisions\/2391382"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2391381"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2391380"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2391380"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2391380"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}