Spencer's departure from Five Finger Death Punch and formation (2018–2020) Jeremy Spencer was a founding member of
heavy metal band
Five Finger Death Punch, and played on all of their releases up until
And Justice for None (2018). For a Fall 2018 tour with
Breaking Benjamin, Charlie Engen replaced Spencer to allow him to undergo
back surgery. On December 18, it was announced that Spencer had departed the band permanently. In a 2020 interview with
Rock Feed, he revealed he will not be rejoining the band: "I don't think my body is gonna be in good enough shape to go back and do headlining shows or anything." Spencer was already a solo artist when he left Five Finger Death Punch, who released four albums as Devil Daddy. While having the same aesthetic as Psycho Synner, the music was more influenced by 1980s
pop and
new wave. He was also acting, co-directing, writing and providing the music for the soft pornographic horror parody series
Lady Killer TV. This, and wanting to make "darker, heavier, more aggressive" music encouraged him to form Psychosexual, influenced by
Kiss,
Ghost,
David Bowie,
Type O Negative and
gothic rock in general.
Torch the Faith and Songs to Stalk You By (2020) of the single for "Baby on Fire" Psychosexual, with a line-up of Devil Daddy on lead vocals, Crucifier on guitar, Astaroth on bass and Volac on drums, released their debut studio album,
Torch the Faith, on July 31, 2020, through Spencer's own independent label, 6ex Records. Co-produced by him with
Drowning Pool producer Shawn McGhee. Three singles were released from the album, "Let the Sin Begin", "Lady Killer" and "Baby on Fire", all of which had music videos that amounted over 340,000 views on
YouTube. The band played its first concert the same day as part of a Kilpop-presented event, that was livestreamed via the group's Facebook page and YouTube channel. A music video was also released for the title track on August 8. On November 27, 2020, the band released its first and only extended play,
Songs to Stalk You By, which consists of six covers: "
Watchin' You" by
Kiss, "
Sex Type Thing" by
Stone Temple Pilots, "Gonna Get Close To You" by
Queensrÿche, "
Love You To Death" by
Type O Negative, "
Love You till Tuesday" by
David Bowie and
Every Breath You Take by
the Police. Spencer said the EP is "a fun little compilation of bands I love. There is definitely a tongue-in-cheek creepiness to the themes that tie the songs together, and that's what made them so much fun to record." He also reunited with
Jason Hook, also formerly of Five Finger Death Punch, who plays guitar on "Watchin' You" and "Gonna Get Close To You".
Name change and "Devil from Hell" (2021) The first two releases by Psychosexual only saw minor success and were poorly received. This encouraged Spencer to reboot the band. "When you make records, they're like snapshots in time," Spencer told
Drag the Waters: The Pantera Podcast. "We made the first thing pretty fast, and I just threw it out independently." He subsequently took the heavily criticized debut album,
Torch the Faith, off streaming in early 2021. He continues "nobody even really knows much about the other music, which I do like, but I think this is more appropriate of where we kind of wanna debut; this is what I wanted to be the first thing." Following this, the band changed its name to Psycho Synner. Spencer has also changed the name of his Devil Daddy character to Grym Synner. "I chose [the name Psychosexual] because the song's lyrics were primarily sex-oriented," he explained, "So, when I formed a new rock band, I kept that name. However, once the new music became guitar-centric, it took on a more sinister style--less about sex and partying." The band's first release as Psycho Synner was "Devil From Hell" in March 2021, which Spencer really liked and wished it had been their first release.
Nine albums in one day (2021) is a common theme in Psycho Synner's music|left Psycho Synner released their unofficial debut album,
Unholy Hymns For The Children on November 5, 2021. They released eight more albums the same day, all with different sounds:
Bite The Snake is
electronic rock, while
As The Demon Dances Under The Blood Red Sky is more
psychedelic.
Fuck The Fire is "the straight ahead face-smasher",
Killing You Softly is
acoustic music while
666 BC Volume 1: The Burning Years and
666 AD Volume 2: The Scorched Years are the first and second parts of a double album, respectively. This was rounded out by
Dying to See You, a straight up
metal album, where
The Devil Made You Do It is
rock and roll with
Satanic themes. All nine Psycho Synner albums were available on CD and vinyl. In regards to how the band wrote so many albums in such a short amount of time, Spencer said "We couldn't play shows because of the pandemic, so we locked ourselves up and wrote and recorded nonstop," He added "Nine albums later, we have really found our groove, so to speak." An early 2022 Psycho Synner Tour soon followed, with Spencer exclaiming "We can't wait to bring a visually exciting show for those who've been cooped up and are ready to rock."
Demondelic, Eat the Flame and demise (2022–2023) For
April Fool's Day, Psycho Sinner "embraced
Christianity" by renaming to The Light and releasing the single "I Surrender All". They returned with two more albums,
Demondelic and
Eat the Flame, both released on September 16, 2022. The former is seen as continuing the "hints of cheap
industrial metal, sometimes smacking of
Rob Zombie, sometimes
Manson or
Deathstars" of their previous albums. Reviews were similarly poor to the band's previous albums, but to make matters worse, the records were overshadowed by a new project by Spencer, the
death metal band Semi-Rotted, who debuted in August with the EP
Deader Than Dead and later released a music video for their song "Hammer Teeth". As a result, Psycho Synner's new albums saw less coverage, even with music videos. Jeremy Spencer made the decision on July 17, 2023 to break-up Psycho Synner. Over its three years, the band had several relaunches, past albums were removed from streaming and critical reception was mostly poor. While having seven No. 1 songs on rock radio, The band never had a commercial breakthrough When interviewed by
Blabbermouth.net, Spencer confirmed that Semi-Rotted was his main focus. He concluded his time in Psychosexual and Psycho Synner "was quite an experience," but they released "some cheesy and boneheaded songs early" that he never recovered from. All Psycho Synner albums were pulled from streaming, and their YouTube channel was deleted. == Critical reception ==