Acey Slade

Emil John Schmidt IV, known professionally as Acey Slade, is an American musician.

He is the bassist and one of the guitarists in the nu metal/industrial band Dope and a former guitarist of the horror punk and glam metal act Murderdolls.

He is also the lead singer and guitarist of Acey Slade & the Dark Party and a touring guitarist of The Misfits.

After Eisen left Dope, Slade was moved to guitar for the 2001 album Life.

He later left Dope to join the Murderdolls, again replacing Eisen on guitar.

Before joining the Murderdolls (alongside his Dope work), Slade also fronted a band known as the Vampire Love Dolls.

After Murderdolls were put on hiatus in 2004, Slade filled in on guitar for punk/metal crossover band Amen for a tour of Japan.

Slade played rhythm guitar on the track "Tired 'n Lonely" on Roadrunner United for Roadrunner Records' 25-year anniversary.

He collaborated on the song with Joey Jordison, who also played in the Murderdolls with Slade.

Previous to this, he served as the bassist in Joan Jett & the Blackhearts and as the lead vocalist and guitarist in the punk rock band Trashlight Vision, which broke up in 2007.

Schmidt was born in Pennsylvania.

Prior to Murderdolls and Wednesday 13, Slade played bass, and later guitar, in Dope alongside guitarist Tripp Eisen who was also part of the Murderdolls.

After the breakup of TrashLight Vision, Slade filled in as guitarist for Wednesday 13 on his 2008 tour as well as taking time to produce records by His Mighty Robot (which remains unreleased) and Billy Liar.

Slade is one of the contributors to the book Sex Tips from Rock Stars by Paul Miles published by Omnibus Press in July 2010 and was also used as the motion-capture model for the punk singer and rock guitarist characters on the video game Rock Band 2.

Slade is currently touring and promoting his new band Acey Slade & the Dark Party, whose début album The Dark Party was released in 2010, and is also playing bass with Joan Jett & the Blackhearts and filling in on bass for the occasional tour date with former band Dope.

Slade performed second guitar for the various Original Misfits reunion sets.

In 2022, he joined the band of Rammstein frontman Till Lindemann for the "Ich hasse Kinder" tour.

Slade lives in Newark, New Jersey.

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