Manic Street Preachers Manic Street Preachers Manic Street Preachers are a Welsh rock band, formed in 1986 in Blackwood, Caerphilly and consisting of cousins James Dean Bradfield (lead vocals, lead guitar), and Sean Moore (drums, percussion, soundscapes), plus Nicky Wire (bass guitar, lyrics). They are often colloquially known as The Manics. Following the release of their first single, "Suicide Alley", the band was joined by Richey Edwards as co-lyricist and rhythm guitarist. The band's early albums were in a punk vein, eventually broadening to a greater alternative rock sound, whilst retaining a leftist politicisation. Their early combination of androgynous glam imagery and lyrics
Know Your Enemy (Manic Street Preachers album) "a disco parody," respectively. The tracks "My Guernica", "His Last Painting" and "The Convalescent" were also described as "dark, marching and charging post-punk anthems." It is the longest album released by the Manic Street Preachers, as it is slightly longer than their debut "Generation Terrorists". On 2014, Sean Moore stated in an interview to a Spanish reporter that the songs included in Know Your Enemy were originally meant for two different albums with different sound and concept. Songs ended up all together in one album as the record label was not kind to put out two albums at the same