Toronto's punk rock stalwarts Random Killing are in their 30th year of slaying punk rock audiences all over Canada and they have an album on vinyl coming out called "Bring Out Your Dead" on Cursed Blessings Records.
Random Killing is a Toronto, Montreal and Oshawa based veteran Canadian punk rock band established in 1984. The group of childhood friends initially got together to jam some of their favourite
punk rock music, just for shits and giggles. The fun turned infectious, the jams continued and before long they had written their own songs, played their first shows, played on live television,
recorded Take Our Flag (1985), a 7" EP and made their first video of the title track. Their video aired on Rogers Cable, CityTV news, Much Music and won a cash prize at Trinity Square
Video.
The band followed up the success of their first release with the following record and cd releases: This Whole World (1989), Kicked in the Nuts (1990), Welcome (1992), Reissued (1993), Thoughts of
Aggression (1994), Urine the 90s Now (1996), Stranded (1997) as well as numerous short run cassettes, demos and enhanced CD-ROMs, some of which were only available at their shows. Through Raw
Energy records Random Killing achieved worldwide record distribution via A&M records, Page Distribution, Black Mark Production and EMI records. The band's latest 12" record "Bring Out Your
Dead" was released Feb 2023 and is available from CursedBlessings Records and their distributors.
In 1995, Random Killing's song "12", a punk rock parody of Sesame Street's counting song, was re-recorded by Random Killing at CBC Studios in Toronto and released as a series of four animated
videos (numbers 2, 3, 4 and 12) by Sesame Street where they aired internationally for more than a decade. "Johnny was a Punk" was also recorded at the same session without vocals and turned into
a video for the letter "J".
In 1998, the band performed and interviewed live on CTV's Open Mike with Mike Bullard. After their performance, Mike's team requested if Random Killing could sit in for an interview because they
had bounced one of their other guests off the show, a comedian with racist material from NYC... The interview was unscripted and extra hilarious due to the fact the show had a well stocked bar in
the green room. Mike Bullard later recounted the live interview with Random Killing in an article within one of the major Toronto newspapers. He made us out to be a bunch of hooligans which is
not the way we remember it at all. However, his version made for good press and a funny story...
