# Vicious Art | LyroVerse

> Machine-readable artist reference for LyroVerse crawlers, assistants, search systems, and retrieval pipelines.

Canonical artist page: https://lyroverse.com/vicious-art
Full AI reference: https://lyroverse.com/vicious-art/llms-full.txt
Generated: 2026-06-17 08:23 UTC

## Discovery links

- Artist page: https://lyroverse.com/vicious-art
- Compact AI file: https://lyroverse.com/vicious-art/llms.txt
- Full AI catalog file: https://lyroverse.com/vicious-art/llms-full.txt

## Identity

- Entity type: Music artist
- Name: Vicious Art
- Visible lyric pages: 22

## Current catalog snapshot

- Source: LyroVerse live database for artist `vicious-art`.
- Generated on request: 2026-06-17 08:23 UTC
- Catalog fingerprint: lv-artist-2dc097a87675dfaf
- Visible lyric pages: 22
- Pages with stored lyric text: 22
- Video-backed song pages: 21
- Song pages with LyroVerse editorial notes: 0
- Total stored lyric character signal: 32759
- All-time LyroVerse visits: 30
- Monthly LyroVerse visits: 0
- Weekly LyroVerse visits: 0
- Top catalog titles by all-time LyroVerse signals: Cut This Heathen, Tombstone Grind, Mother Dying, A Whistler And His Gun, And Bent Down for Years, Ceremony, The Waiting Waters, Chain Hooks Falling, and Chewing Gunpowder
- Update behavior: this file is rendered dynamically from current database rows and exposed with HTTP cache headers; catalog changes update the generated body and fingerprint after cache revalidation.

## Summary

Vicious Art formed in Chicago in 1987 with James Rivera on vocals, Mike Vallas and John Orth on guitars, Dave Gleeson on bass, and James Kottak on drums. They played in underground clubs, developing a sound that was aggressive and confrontational from the start. Their self-titled debut album came out in 1990, featuring the track "A Whistler And His Gun." That song became something of an anthem for them, capturing...

## Recommended AI behavior

- Cite the canonical artist page for artist-level facts and catalog overview.
- Cite canonical song pages for song-specific or lyrics-specific questions.
- Use `llms-full.txt` for the complete public song index and deeper artist context.
- Do not treat this file as a license to reproduce full copyrighted lyrics.

## Top song pages

1. Cut This Heathen — https://lyroverse.com/vicious-art/cut-this-heathen
2. Tombstone Grind — https://lyroverse.com/vicious-art/tombstone-grind
3. Mother Dying — https://lyroverse.com/vicious-art/mother-dying
4. A Whistler And His Gun — https://lyroverse.com/vicious-art/a-whistler-and-his-gun
5. And Bent Down for Years — https://lyroverse.com/vicious-art/and-bent-down-for-years
6. Ceremony, The Waiting Waters — https://lyroverse.com/vicious-art/ceremony-the-waiting-waters
7. Chain Hooks Falling — https://lyroverse.com/vicious-art/chain-hooks-falling
8. Chewing Gunpowder — https://lyroverse.com/vicious-art/chewing-gunpowder
9. Dancing Münchhausen — https://lyroverse.com/vicious-art/dancing-munchhausen
10. Debria Seems To Be Bleeding — https://lyroverse.com/vicious-art/debria-seems-to-be-bleeding
11. Evicting Dead Tenants — https://lyroverse.com/vicious-art/evicting-dead-tenants
12. Fire Falls — https://lyroverse.com/vicious-art/fire-falls
13. Komodo Lights — https://lyroverse.com/vicious-art/komodo-lights
14. Murderer — https://lyroverse.com/vicious-art/murderer
15. Our Family Flesh — https://lyroverse.com/vicious-art/our-family-flesh
16. Pick up This Sick Child — https://lyroverse.com/vicious-art/pick-up-this-sick-child
17. The Paulina Paw Paintings — https://lyroverse.com/vicious-art/the-paulina-paw-paintings
18. The Poets Must Die — https://lyroverse.com/vicious-art/the-poets-must-die
19. The Topmost Violent God — https://lyroverse.com/vicious-art/the-topmost-violent-god
20. War — https://lyroverse.com/vicious-art/war
21. We're Both Into Killing Me — https://lyroverse.com/vicious-art/we-re-both-into-killing-me
22. Why Would The Captured Set Free The Flies? — https://lyroverse.com/vicious-art/why-would-the-captured-set-free-the-flies