History

In 1999 Chicago's death metal/groncore band Jugular Appetizer became Morgue Supplier. On New Year's Eve of The Millennium, Morgue Supplier played their first show with Fleshgrind in Waukegan, IL.

In February 2000, guitarist Paul Vossel was asked to leave the band for personal reasons and was replaced by Rob Simon on guitar for a short time before that fell apart. In April of that same year, vocalist John "Moe" Null was locked-up (with a 18 month sentence in his face) for some petty bullshit charges. Guitar player Paul Gillis decided to keep the vocal duties for himself and not bother with trying to find a second vocalist while Moe was incarcerated. Shortly after this, Terrence Manauis, who was also the drummer for Waking Chaos at the time, took over on drums, and Michael "Bats" Martocci moved from the drums to the guitar.

During mid to late 2000, Morgue Supplier continued to play the local scene and had some great shows with such bands as Immolation, Incantation and Goat Whore. At the Immolation show, the band released their first official demo entitled 'Not Dead enough'. This 4-song CD started to get their name circulating throughout the scene, along with numerous reviews and plenty of mail coming in and going out.

By late 2001,guitarist Damian "Tom" Leski (Gorgasm, ex-Embodied), showed interest in the band and was asked to join. Once again, the band started getting some good shows with such bands as Disgorge (California), Disinter (Chicago), Screaming Afterbirth and CorpseVomit, to name a few.

Once again, though, by February 2002 more problems started to sneak up on the band. First, problems started with Manauis. He was asked to also play with Gorgasm and not long after him and Leski were out of the band. Eric Bauer (World Of Shit guitarist) took over on drums, and once again the band was struggling to make shit work. Then, one fine day in April 2002, just after Moe was finally released from jail, and started getting back into screaming his head off again, the practice space burned down, and they lost pretty much all of their equipment, including their recording gear, and some of the new tracks they had been recording. This was a devastating blow for every possible reason you can think of

By June 2002, the band recovered what they could through insurance and what not, and found a new practice space and started at it again, still determined to get their much antipated full length album finished.

Then, once again, in late 2002 more fucking bullshit... Bats, the co-founder of the band was dealing with personal issues and before long, he was out, and yet again there was another major detour. This time the band wasn't sure what was going to happen. Now, without a guitarist, it was a question of "how can we start this yet again?"

Well, luckily, Eric Bauer met a drummer named Nate Mitchell, and he jumped in on drums. Eric switched over to guitar, and the transition went smoothly and the band continued to arrange and write material for the upcoming full-length release.

Nate Mitchell disappeared (supposedly on some kind of coke binge off into the desert) not long after the recording of the full length 'Sociopath' (reelase in December 2004). Some great reviews surfaced due to this album and the intensity had never been so in your face.

So, once again Eric switched back to drums, and there they were, again looking for a guitarist while writing songs for yet another release; this time the 3-song demo 'The End of the World' (Eric handled guitar duties for this recording).

In March of 2005, the original guitar player Paul Vossel showed much interest and was asked to give it another shot and the band moved forward yet again. In May 2005, the band lost longtime bassist, Bill Null. He moved out of state due to family issues, and ex-Crematorium guitarist Chris Mull showed interest in blazing some shit and moved in on bass. The first show with this lineup played with Macabre and Gorgasm at the Holiday of Horrors in December 2005.

By May of 2006, alongside the release of 'The End of the World', problems with Vossel resurfaced and ways were parted yet again. Rob Mazekis filled the slot on guitar for a brief time and the band played the Holiday of Horrors show again in Decemeber 2006 with Macabre and Jungle Rot. As expected, Rob was next in the looooong line of band members to join, and then either be kicked out, disappear, quit, or just flat out lose their fucking mind.

And then one more, as Moe moved to Las Vegas in June 2007 and Gillis officially decided to remain as the sole vocalist.

In February 2008 the band started working with new bassist Steve Reichelt (Chris switched back to guitar). In September, recordings started for the CD EP 'Constant Negative' which was released on April 21st, 2009 on Necrotic Records to rave reviews.

From the time 'Constant Negative' was released, until late 2012 the band played several great shows with such bands as Gorguts, Grave, Misery Index, Magrudergrind, Gigan, Ulcerate, Anal Cunt, Nocturnus, Anal Blast, Today Is The Day plus a shitload of others.

In early 2013, Morgue Supplier began to write their sophomore full length album. up to the present day, the band has been writing towards a new full-length album.

During this writing period, the band was approached to write the theme song/single for an animated series "Executioner" produced by Rugburn. The single is entitled 'Bringer of the End (Executioner Theme)', and was released digitally via Itunes and many other sites on April 10th, 2013.

On December 11th, 2015, the band signed with a record deal with Obscure Musick who released the 2nd, self-titled, album on February 19th 2016. It was released on vinyl by Von Frost Records / Nero One Records on July 17th, 2017.

(source: Morgue Supplier, 2016)
(discography incomplete)