Editing D.O.A. (band) (section)

=== First break-up and reunion (1990–2002) ===
1990's ''Murder'' featured rawer, almost thrash metal production, rather than their original basic punk sound.  The same year also produced a collaboration with [[Dead Kennedys]] singer [[Jello Biafra]] with ''[[Last Scream of the Missing Neighbors]]''. In August 1990, Joey decided he was breaking up D.O.A. but, at the suggestion of promoter [[Dirk Dirksen]], they did a farewell tour of the West Coast, playing their "final" show on December 1, 1990, at the Commodore in Vancouver. In 1991, they released a posthumous live album entitled ''Talk Minus Action = 0'' while Keithley pursued an acting career.<ref name="Ish3">{{cite book|first=Joey |last=Keithley |title=I, Shithead: A life in punk |publisher=Arsenal Pulp Press|year=2003|pages=219–224|isbn=1-55152-148-2}}</ref>

19 months after D.O.A. broke up, Joey Shithead and Wimpy Roy had reunited as D.O.A in the summer of 1992. Fellow Canadian punk rock veteran [[John Wright (musician)|John Wright]] from [[NoMeansNo]] suggested they hire Ken Jensen from [[Red Tide (band)|Red Tide]] as the new drummer, which they did.<ref name="Ish3" />  The new line-up released an EP and two albums in the early 1990s, ''[[13 Flavours Of Doom]]'' and ''Loggerheads''.  These albums found the band replacing the more hard-rock oriented sound of the 1980s with a return to punk rock, although it was a heavier, tighter brand of punk than their earlier work.{{citation needed|date=November 2019}}  These albums were produced by Wright, who also played keyboards on the recordings. The band then added [[Ford Pier]] on guitar and vocals.

Tragedy struck in 1995 when drummer Ken Jensen died in a house fire.<ref name="Larkin80">{{cite book|title=[[Encyclopedia of Popular Music|The Virgin Encyclopedia of Eighties Music]]|editor=Colin Larkin|editor-link=Colin Larkin (writer)|publisher=[[Virgin Books]]|date=2003|edition=Third|isbn=1-85227-969-9|page=142}}</ref> The "Ken Jensen Memorial Single" EP was released on Alternative Tentacles, including two tracks each from D.O.A. and Red Tide.  With John Wright filling in on drums, ninth full-length ''The Black Spot'' was recorded.  The album featured a more basic, sing-along type punk rock sound that was reminiscent of the band's late 1970s and early 1980s output.{{citation needed|date=November 2019}}

The late 1990s found the band's line-up in turmoil, with Wimpy Roy leaving the band after a decade and a half of service and Kuba joining to play bass from 1997 until 2001.<ref name="auto" />  Keithley experimented with different bassists and drummers and released the album ''Festival Of Atheists'' in 1998. By the early 2000s, the band had found a permanent drummer in the form of The Great Baldini. In 2002, Keithley put out his first solo album, ''Beat Trash'', and original bassist Randy Rampage returned to the band after nearly 20 years for the ''Win The Battle'' album. However, the reunion did not last, with Rampage leaving the band again after the recording of the album, to be replaced by Dan Yaremko.

''The Lost Tapes'' was the first release on Keithley's revived Sudden Death label, followed by ''Festival Of Atheists''.<ref name="Larkin80" />  During this period, Keithley also oversaw the re-release of the band's classic early records on Sudden Death, several of which had been out of print for many years.