Freddy Cricien

Freddy Cricien
Cricien performing with Madball in 2018.
Background information
Born	(1975-11-04) November 4, 1975 Passaic, New Jersey, U.S.
Origin	New York City, New York, U.S.
Genres	Hardcore punk, punk rock, crossover thrash, heavy metal, hip-hop
Occupation(s)	Musician, songwriter, producer
Instrument	Vocals
Years active	1989–present

Freddy Cricien, also known as Freddy Madball, (born November 4, 1975) is an American musician, primarily known as the vocalist of New York hardcore band Madball. He is also the vocalist of Hazen Street, and has a Hip Hop career from which debut album was November 2009's "Catholic Guilt". He also moonlights as an MC with DJ Stress as the hip hop duo Freddy Madball & DJ Stress.

He has made guest appearances on tracks by bands such as Fear Factory (vocals on the bonus track Agnostic Front song Your Mistake), Deviate (vocals on Last Judgement), Sick of It All (vocals on Forked Tongue on the Death to Tyrants album), H2O (guest vocals on the song 'Guilty By Association' on the F.T.T.W. album), 25 ta Life (guest vocals on 'Loyal To Da Grave' on the Strength Through Unity album), Shutdown (guest vocals on 'Few and Far Between' on the album of the same name), Skarhead (guest vocals on 'I Won't Change' on the album Kings at Crime, also on the song 'Skarhead' from an early compilation.

Biography

Early life

Cricien was born in Passaic, New Jersey on November 4, 1975. His mother is from Havana, Cuba and his father is from Barranquilla, Colombia. He has three older siblings from the same mother. The eldest is Roger Miret of Agnostic Front. At five years old Freddy and his family relocated to Miramar, Florida. Roger stayed behind and soon after became immersed in the New York hardcore music scene.

Career

When Cricien was about seven years old, he visited with his brother in NYC and began to perform on stage with Agnostic Front. Shortly after he began to join the band on tour. At twelve years old, Cricien recorded Madball’s first seven inch, Ball of destruction. It consisted of used and unused Agnostic Front material. The original lineup featured Roger Miret on bass, Vinnie Stigma on guitar, Will Shepler on drums, and Freddy on vocals. When Freddy was 16 years old he moved permanently to NYC and moved in with Roger. In 1992 Madball recorded and released the Droppin Many Suckas EP. This recording featured original music and the addition of Matt Henderson on guitar. In the years to follow Madball continued to release new albums(Set it off-1994, Demonstrating My Style-1996, Look My Way-1998, Been There, Done That-1998, Hold It Down-2000, N.Y.H.C-2004, Legacy-2005, Infiltrate The System-2007, Empire-2010, Rebellion EP-2012, Hardcore Lives-2014, and most recently For The Cause-2018)