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Unreferenced|date=July 2011 Infobox musical artist | name = Unida | image = | caption = | image_size = | background = group_or_band | alias = | origin = United States of America|USA | genre = Heavy metal music|Heavy metal , hard rock , stoner rock | years_active = 1998–2003 | label = Man's Ruin Records|Man's Ruin , MeteorCity , American Recordings (US)|American Recordings , High Times | associated_acts = Kyuss , Slo Burn , Hermano (band)|Hermano , House of Broken Promises , Slipknot (band)|Slipknot | website = | current_members = John Garcia (singer)|John Garcia Arthur Seay Miguel Cancino Eddie Plascencia | past_members = Ché (band)|Dave Dinsmore Scott Reeder (bassist)|Scott Reeder Paul Gray (Slipknot)|Paul Gray | notable_instruments =
Unida was an United States|American stoner rock band that was formed after the dissolution of Kyuss and Slo Burn . The band originally consisted of John Garcia (singer)|John Garcia (vocals), Arthur Seay (guitar), Miguel Cancino (drums) and Che (band)|Dave Dinsmore (bass). Dinsmore was later replaced by Scott Reeder (bassist)|Scott Reeder , who was in turn replaced by Eddie Plascencia. Paul Gray (Slipknot)|Paul Gray of Slipknot (band)|Slipknot fame also played with the band as a touring bassist.
In 1999, the band appeared on a split CD release with Swedish band Dozer . The Unida portion was titled The Best of Wayne-Gro EP . Later that year, they released their debut full length album entitled Coping with the Urban Coyote on the now defunct Man's Ruin Records .
Relations with their next record company, American Recordings (US)|American Recordings , ended with legal problems. Their second album, The Great Divide , was originally scheduled for release in 2001 but is now in limbo. The album has surfaced on the internet in bootleg recording|bootleg form. In a 2002 interview, bassist Scott Reeder spoke out about the delay in getting the full-length album released.
"Everything was set to come out on American via Columbia Records, and you know, we've been meeting a lot of people who've been working on it," he explained. "The artwork was done, everything was looking really good, and then, I guess, (American owner) Rick Rubin had a falling out with Sony, moved the whole label over to Island Def Jam, and apparently, after months of being just strung along — 'Oh, yeah, the release date got bumped back a little bit' — finally we found out that somebody at the label didn't like the record, so they didn't want to deal with it. The lawyers had to go back and forth for months and months and months — a chess game where every move takes two months... 'You have sixty days to reply to this letter'...and...so we just got out of the deal, a month ago."
Since the delay, John Garcia has released three studio albums and one live album with Hermano (band)|Hermano and toured with the band in the latter half of 2008. In 2004, Unida appeared on the High Times Records' High Volume: The Stoner Rock Collection , contributing the track Left Us To Mold . Garcia is also working on a solo album. Arthur Seay (principal song writer, guitarist) and Mike Cancino (Drums) along with their longtime friend Eddie Plascencia (who also has been filling the bass duties in UNIDA recently) have started a new band called House of Broken Promises (H.O.B.P.). H.O.B.P. have also filmed a video with Rick Kosick (from Jackass fame) to coincide with the release of their forthcoming album "Using the Useless".
Unida's song "Black Woman" was featured on the soundtrack to the skateboarding video game '' Tony Hawk's Underground .
Coping with the Urban Coyote - (1999) - Man's Ruin Records
Rise 13|Rise 13: Magick Rock, Vol. 1 - (1999) the song "Black Woman"
The Great Divide - (2001) (Unreleased, but leaked onto the Internet)
"High Times" High Volume: The Stoner Rock Collection - (2004) the song "Left Us To Mold"
Category:Musical groups established in 1998 Category:Musical groups disestablished in 2003 Category:Heavy metal musical groups from California Category:Stoner rock musical groups Category:American hard rock musical groups
