Pretty Vicious
Group · United Kingdom · Merthyr Tydfil · formed 2014
Welsh rock band
Timeline
2010s
Biography
Biography
Pretty Vicious were a Welsh rock band originally from Merthyr Tydfil, Wales formed in 2014. The group received attention from publications including NME and Paste. The band signed to Big Machine Records in 2018. Singles "Move" and "Are You Entertained" were released under the label. Their debut album Beauty of Youth was released on 12 July 2019.
In a statement issued on 23 October 2019, the band announced that they would be splitting up and then re-emerge as a new group in 2020, without frontman Brad Griffiths, who took a break from performing with the band in 2019, with health issues.
The band's last show took place at 17 January 2020, with Himalayas member Joe assisting in the show.
In popular culture
The song "Are You Ready For Me" was used for the soundtrack of the Square Enix game Life Is Strange: Before the Storm, and the track "Ain't No Fun" is a part of the official soundtrack of Dirt 4.
Singles
"Are You Ready For Me" (2015)
"It's Always There" (2015)
"National Plastics" (2015)
"Just Another Story" (2015)
"Blister" (2016)
"Ain't No Fun" (2017)
"Move" (2018) - Released at 3 August, #30 Mainstream Rock Songs
"Are You Entertained?" (2018) - Released on 26 October
"These Four Walls" (2019) - Released on 25 January.
Discography & profile
Normalised profile
Percentiles are computed over every artist in the database, so a tier-3 artist can still sit in the 95th percentile on a single axis.
| Metric | Value | Percentile |
|---|---|---|
| Wikipedia language versions | 4 | 24.3th |
| Spotify monthly listeners | — | no data |
| Release groups in DB | 0 | 0th |
| Studio albums | 0 | 0th |
| Awards recorded | 0 | 0th |
| Timeline events | 1 | 40.6th |
| Recording span (years) | 12 | 30.2th |
| Genres | 1 | 56th |
Percentiles are computed at render time; missing values mean the artist has no data on that axis.
Discography (0 release groups)
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Stats & PK
Percentile within all 23,672 published artists.Put Pretty Vicious head-to-head →
| Metric | Value | Percentile |
|---|---|---|
| Wikipedia language versions | 4 | 24.3th |
| Spotify monthly listeners | — | no data |
| Release groups in DB | 0 | 0th |
| Studio albums | 0 | 0th |
| Awards recorded | 0 | 0th |
| Timeline events | 1 | 40.6th |
| Recording span (years) | 12 | 30.2th |
| Genres | 1 | 56th |
Awards & honours
Where this record comes from
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https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q26260790seed-list—wikipedia · CC BY-SA 4.0 · retrieved 10 October 2026
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pretty_Viciousbiography—wikipedia-en · CC BY-SA 4.0 · retrieved 10 October 2026
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pretty_Vicious
Why this artist is in the database
- List of Welsh musicians
Tier rule: curated genre/region list
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Wikidata: Q26260790 · MusicBrainz: afb2b805-72f3-4d70-8f6e-143db2750137
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