Kings of Chaos (band)

Kings of Chaos
Also known as	Rock N Roll All-Stars
Genres	Rock
Years active	2012–present
Members	Joe Elliott Slash Gilby Clarke Steve Stevens Glenn Hughes Duff McKagan Myles Kennedy Matt Sorum Corey Taylor
Past members	Sebastian Bach Vivian Campbell Gene Simmons Ed Roland Billy Duffy Mike Inez
Website	Official Site

Kings of Chaos are an international band featuring members from Guns N' Roses, Velvet Revolver, Def Leppard, Deep Purple, and more. The group plays songs from all of these bands, and other classic rock covers. To date, they have only recorded and released one song, "Never Before", on the Deep Purple tribute, Re-Machined: A Tribute to Deep Purple's Machine Head.

History

The band was formerly known as the Rock N Roll All-Stars, which had a short tour of South America in 2012. Since their reincarnation as the Kings of Chaos, the band have played Australia's Stone Music Fest, four shows in South Africa, one show in the United States, and two in Central America.

The supergroup has previously stated that they would be releasing EPs in the future that would each contain 3 covers and an original track, but this has yet to happen.

The band always plays a setlist of songs from the bands of the members, and generally another few cover songs. Most prominent throughout are the Guns N' Roses classics, "Sweet Child O' Mine," "Paradise City," "Welcome To The Jungle," Def Leppard's "Pour Some Sugar On Me" and Deep Purple's "Highway Star."

One of the significant points to the Kings of Chaos is that they currently contain 4 members of the 1993 version of Guns N' Roses, and 2 original members. This is a higher number than the current incarnation of Guns N' Roses itself.

Members

In 2013, the "Rock n' Roll All Stars" became the Kings Of Chaos with the core band that consisted of many who were on the RnR All Star lineup but now there is a core lineup; this consists of Duff, Joe, Matt, Glenn, Steve and Gilby. They toured in Australia and South Africa. On the South Africa dates Sebastian and Steve could not commit as they had prior engagements. This led to Vivian Campbell from Def Leppard taking Steve's place, and Myles Kennedy taking Sebastian's place and the addition of Slash. Viv who had to stepdown as he unfortunately contacted Hodgkin's lymphoma; Viv was replaced by Velvet Revolver guitarist Dave Kushner. The band was also joined by Ed Roland from Collective Soul, who was instrumental in getting the band booked for the gigs in South Africa. These gigs were very well attended and it is likely the band will be doing another tour in the Fall/Winter of 2013 that will more than likely include Slash, Dave and Myles as well as possible DVD and some original material from the band.

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