Castration Squad was a punk band from Los Angeles, California, USA active in the early 1980's. The band was formed by Shannon Wilhelm and Mary Bat aka Dinah Cancer (45 Grave) and featuring Alice Bag (The Bags), Elissa Bello (Go-Go’s), Tiffany Kennedy (Cambridge Apostles), Tracy Lea (Redd Kross), Phranc (Nervous Gender) and a rotating, all- star lineup of female punk talent from the late seventies LA scene. The band was highly influential in sound and imagery and was associated with such bands as Christian Death, Gun Club and 45 Grave.
Mary Bat Thing and Shannon’s deadpan vocal performances created a spooky aura that paired well with Bag’s gothy bass lines. While they never released an album, their song “The X Girlfriend” is on the Killed By Death #13 compilation and “A Date with Jack” was released on Alice Bag’s Alice Bag: Violence Girl compilation in 2011.
