Reduced to a duo, Skold and Cody collaborated on the V.N.B. Some fans say it's their best work, while others say it's an abomination that shouldn't have been released under the S.M. Violent New Breed is still the most hotly debated album in the Shotgun Messiah canon. Welcome to Bop City was remixed, repackaged, and re-released worldwide as Shotgun Messiah's self-titled debut album in 1989. After a trans-Atlantic flight, a name change (there was already a band called "Kingpin" in L.A.) and a much-needed image makeover - more black leather and denim, WAY less neon - the newly christened Shotgun Messiah signed a deal with Relativity Records, a well established indie label known mainly for the many underground thrash and death metal bands (Megadeth, Exodus, Forbidden, Possessed, etc.) signed to its Combat Records imprint. The album was mostly ignored in their homeland, where clean-cut melodic rock acts like Europe were ruling the roost.so Kingpin decided to head to America and try their sleazy luck in Los Angeles, the Glam Metal capital of the world at the time.
Shotgun Messiah originally formed in Sweden in 1985 as "Kingpin" - an outrageously over-the-top glam-to-the-max act whose neon stage costumes (and unintentionally hilarious band photos) completely overshadowed the music on their debut album, 1988's Welcome to Bop City.
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