Brain Donor were an English power trio,[5] formed in July 1999 by Julian Cope and two Spiritualized members, Doggen Foster (lead guitar) and drummer Kevin 'Kevlar' Bales.
[6] Wearing full make-up in the kabuki style of early KISS, the band sought to combine Van Halen-esque heavy metal with garage rock[7] in the style of Blue Cheer and the Japanese noise rock bands High Rise and Mainliner.
[citation needed] The band's debut album Love Peace & Fuck was hammered by the press for its gratuitous soloing and guitar heavy production.
But with the recent return of heavy metal values to underground music via re-appraissals of Blue Cheer and Sir Lord Baltimore, Love Peace & Fuck has since come to be regarded by the new American Underground as something of a classic,}[2] and a US compilation album of the band was released in 2005, on San Francisco's Mister E. Records.
The same year, a song entitled "Messages" from the second Brain Donor album, Too Freud To Rock 'n' Roll, Too Jung To Die, appeared in the American film, The Lost.