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[[caption-width-right:350:Mike Muir ([[IAmTheBand and the rest]])]]
-> ''I'm a suicidal failure\\
I gotta have some help\\
Have suicidal tendencies\\
But I can't kill myself''
-->-- "Suicidal Failure"

Suicidal Tendencies is an American HardcorePunk band formed in 1981 by vocalist Mike Muir. Although their music video for arguably their most famous song, "Institutionalized", was one of the first hardcore punk music videos aired on MTV, they gained more mainstream exposure by adding thrash metal influences to their sound, leading them to be credited as the inventors of "crossover thrash". Their popularity even further exploded in the early 1990s when adding influence from funk music.

Despite their mainstream popularity, in recent years, the band has stripped away most of the thrash and funk influences and turned back into a hardcore band, primarily due to discomfort within the major spotlight.

!! Discography:
* 1983 - ''[[SelfTitledAlbum Suicidal Tendencies]]''
* 1987 - ''Join the Army''
* 1988 - ''How Will I Laugh Tomorrow When I Can't Even Smile Today''
* 1989 - ''Controlled by Hatred/Feel Like Shit...Déjà Vu'' (complation of two [=EPs=])
* 1990 - ''Lights...Camera...Revolution!''
* 1992 - ''The Art of Rebellion''
* 1993 - ''Still Cyco After All These Years'' (a rerecording of the SelfTitledAlbum, with two songs from ''Join the Army'')
* 1994 - ''Suicidal For Life''
* 1999 - ''Freedumb''
* 2000 - ''Free Your Soul and Save My Mind''
* 2010 - ''No Mercy Fool!/The Suicidal Family''
* 2013 - ''13''
* 2016 - ''World Gone Mad''
* 2018 - ''Still Cyco Punk After All These Years'' (A near-complete rerecording of [[SoloSideProject Mike Muir's 1996 solo album]] ''Lost My Brain! (Once Again)'')

!!Suicidal Tropes:
* {{Acrofatic}}: Despite putting on a few pounds in recent years, Mike Muir still runs around the stage almost constantly when the band's performing and never seems to get tired.
* AntiPoliceSong: [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin "Fascist Pig"]] from the debut album.
--> ''Riot squad, bash their heads\\
Kick their ass until they're dead\\
I won't be a [[TitleDrop fascist pig!]]\\
Love to fight, what a thrill\\
We don't stop until we kill\\
I won't be a fascist pig!''\\

* AbusiveParents: Mike's mother and father in the "Institutionalized" video. They imprison him in his room and wrap him in a straitjacket because they think he's "on drugs" even though Mike's never seen doing anything out of the ordinary in the video.
* AllJustADream: The video for "Institutionalized" seems to imply this, with Mike having escaped his parents and found freedom at a raucous live concert filled with fellow punks--only to SmashCut to Mike raving and running around in an empty warehouse, implying the concert is all in his head.
* BungledSuicide: "Suicidal Failure" is sung from the perspective of a 19-year-old who has tried many different means of killing himself, but he just can't get it right.
* CardCarryingVillain: "We're F'n Evil."
* DrugsAreBad: "Feeding the Addiction."
* EverythingsDeaderWithZombies: "Waking The Dead."
* FunkMetal: A major innovator in this, largely due to Robert Trujillo playing with them from ''Lights...Camera...Revolution!'' to ''Suicidal for Life''.
* HumbleGoal: "All I wanted was a Pepsi. Just one Pepsi!"
* IAmTheBand: Mike Muir, the face of the band, one of the main songwriters since the beginning, and the only constant in a seemingly endless list of members.
* IconicItem: Mike Muir is never, ''ever'' seen without his trademark bandanna.
* LeadBassist: After Mike, Type C Robert Truijllo is probably the next best known member due to later playing in Music/{{Metallica}} and Music/OzzyOsbourne's band and also adding in the funk elements Suicidal became famous for in their later career. Stephen Bruner is also quite famous for his solo work as Thundercat, while Tim "Rawbiz" Williams was also a name in session musician circles, and Ra Diaz is widely respected in bass circles and is known for his gear demos.
* MinisculeRocking: A staple of most of their more overtly punk albums, especially the first one.
* MistakenForInsane: "Institutionalized" is about a teenage boy named Mike, whose [[AbusiveParents parents]] keep sending him to institutions because they think he's not right in the head (and [[MistakenForJunkie that he's on drugs]]). He's really just a nonconformist, though.
* MotorMouth: Mike's vocal delivery on most of their faster songs gets ''really'' fast. "Institutionalized"'s chorus is a famous example.
* MyGodWhatHaveIDone: How the narrator of "Waking The Dead" feels by the end of the song.
* NewSoundAlbum: ''Join the Army'', the first album with Rocky George on guitar, started adding in metal elements to their sound that would really crystalize in ''How Will I Laugh Tomorrow'' and ''Lights...Camera...Revolution!''. ''Lights'' in return added a lot of FunkMetal to their sound.
* NoIndoorVoice: Mike spends most of the debut album yelling his ass off.
* ReligionRantSong: "Send Me Your Money" is a Type 3.
* RevolvingDoorBand: They have had a truly impressive amount of past members, at just short of '''30''' of them. Their first lineup didn't even make it a year. Their longest-running line up since then lasted six years. Muir has been doing this for over four ''decades''.
* SanitySlippageSong: A common theme in their songs, with "Institutionalized" being a well-known example.
* ScamReligion: The Church of Suicidal in "Send Me Your Money".
* SurprisinglyGentleSong: "Heaven." While parts of it do get heavy, it's mostly a gentle FunkRock song
* ThrashMetal: A TropeCodifier for crossover thrash, to this day being one of the most iconic bands in the genre.

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->''...It doesn't matter, I'll probably get hit by a car anyway...''

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