Acid Drinkers

Acid Drinkers is a Polish thrash metal band, formed in September 1986 in Poznań. Acid Drinkers formed in September 21, 1986 consisting of Tomasz "Titus" Pukacki (vocals, bass ^{Bass (guitar)} ) and Robert "Litza" Friedrich (guitar, vocals). The band's style from back then to present is thrash metal, with influence of heavy metal ^{heavy metal music} . Acid Drinkers is one of the most important bands in Polish thrash and heavy metal music.

  Line-up soon expanded as Darek "Popcorn" Popowicz (lead guitar) and a drummer Piotr "Chomik" Kulk (shortly after replaced by Maciej "Åšlimak" Starosta) joined the band. With this line-up the band worked on its own compositions; such as "Barmy Army", "Del Rocca" and "I Mean Acid". Within a month of the band's creation, Titus was called to join the army and left the band for two years. The others did not intend to idle their time away; Litza and Popcorn undertook a reactivation of the band named Slavoy. Soon both of them received a proposal to play for reputable groups: Popcorn from Wolf Spider, Litza from Turbo ^{Turbo (Polish band)} .

After returning from the army, Titus tried to reactivate his first band, Los Desperados. His attempts misfired and Titus himself, after meeting with Popcorn, decided to reform Acid Drinkers with Litza and Ślimak. Their debut took place August 26, 1989 on Wyspa Słodowa in Wrocław. That performance was actually the beginning of the band's true career. Rumors about a new, excellent metal group swiftly spread across Poland. Soon afterwards the Acids received an opportunity to record an album and continue walking along their path of glory. With this line-up there emerged their best-known classics, including their debut, "Are You A Rebel?", "Vile Vicious Vision" and their most famous, "Infernal Connection".
At the end of 1998, Litza decided to leave the band. Przemysław "Perła"
Wejmann, a vocalist and guitarist and a leader of Guess Why, replaced him.
With "Perła" on board, Acids recorded three albums "Amazing Atomic
Activity", "Broken Head" and "Acidofilia". At the very beginning of
2003, Perła made up his mind to leave the band.
It took almost a month before the new guitarist was chosen. The new
member turned out to be a well-known frontman of an already disbanded
group - Illusion - Tomek "Lipa" Lipnicki. Together with Lipa, the Acids
recorded a well-received long-play, "Rock Is Not Enough". After over a
year of cooperation, the new guitarist left Acid Drinkers for his own
project, Lipali. His place in the band was taken over by Aleksander
"Olass" Mendyk from "None". The new member of Acid's crew quickly
integrated himself into the band and was an active member. The band released a critically acclaimed album 'Verses Of Steel', with most of the songs written by the new guitarist. On 30 November 2008, Alexander Mendyk died due circulatory failure ^{Heart failure} , in Cracow, at the age of 29. He has been replaced on May 9 2009, by a new member , Wojciech "Jankiel" Moryto.

To date, Acid Drinkers are widely considered the best and most
spectacular thrash-metal band in Poland. Their popularity has gone far
beyond the typical metal music sphere. The Acids have played over 500 shows, and
many of those will surely stay in the minds of thousands of fans – it would
be enough to mention Jarocin festivals, Metalmania, Węgorzewo,
Przystanek Woodstock or Odjazdy. The Acids performed there as foreground
celebrities. They preceded performances in Poland by, among others,
Deep Purple, Megadeth, Bruce Dickinson, Sepultura,
Paradise Lost ^{Paradise Lost (band)} and Slayer. Moreover, many
known Polish artists such as: Edyta Bartosiewicz, Kazik Staszewski,
Tomek Lipnicki, Patrycja Kosiarkiewicz or Grzegorz Skawiński took part
in Acids’ recordings. Acid Drinkers were four times (on 1998, 2000,
2004, 2009) awarded with a Fryderyk in the hard and heavy category, and
received in 1998 from TVP 2 the "ZÅ‚oty bÄ…czek" (Golden spinning top) award for being the best
music group from Poland. Additionally, they were acknowledged as one of
the five best Polish bands of the 1990s (together with Hey ^{Hey (band)} , Kazik Staszewski, Edyta Bartosiewicz and O.N.A.) by journalists and readers of Tylko Rock (Only Rock) magazine.* Tomek "Titus" Pukacki - vocals ^Singing , bass ^{bass guitar}
* Darek "Popcorn" Popowicz - lead guitar
* Maciek "Åšlimak" Starosta - drums ^{Drum kit}
* Wojciech "Jankiel" Moryto - rhythm guitar, vocals

Past members

* Alex "Olass" Mendyk (deceased 30.11.2008) - rhythm guitar, vocals (2004 - 2008)
* Robert "Litza" Friedrich - rhythm guitar, vocals (1986 - 1998)
* Przemek "Perła" Wejmann - rhythm guitar, vocals (1998 - 2002)
* Tomek "Lipa" Lipnicki - rhythm guitar, vocals (2003 - 2004)
Studio Albums

* 1990 - "Are You a Rebel?"
* 1991 - "Dirty Money, Dirty Tricks"
* 1992 - "Strip Tease ^{Strip Tease (Acid Drinkers album)} "
* 1993 - "Vile Vicious Vision"
* 1994 - "Fishdick"
* 1994 - "Infernal Connection"
* 1996 - "The State of Mind Report"
* 1998 - "High Proof Cosmic Milk"
* 1998 - "Varran Strikes Back: Alive!" (Recorded on Varran Comodo Tour '98)
* 1999 - "Amazing Atomic Activity"
* 2000 - "Broken Head"
* 2002 - "Acidofilia"
* 2004 - "Rock Is Not Enough, Give Me The Metal"
* 2008 - "Verses Of Steel"

Videos

* 2004 - "15 Screwed Years"
* 2006 - "The Hand That Rocks the Coffin"

Singles

* 1994 - "3 Version 4 Yonash / Acid On The Dance Floor"
* 1996 - "Pump The Plastic Heart"
* 1996 - "Walkay To Heaven"
* 1998 - "(I Can't Get No) Satisfaction"

Compilations

* 2002 - "Maximum Overload"