Mourning Widows

Mourning Widows was a musical project led by former Extreme guitarist Nuno Bettencourt. The band was formed in 1997, and they released two albums during their career. Despite not being widely released in the US, both albums were successful in Japan. Bettencourt formed the band after the moderate success of his 1996 solo album, Schizophonic, and the band's sound was a takeoff of the post-grunge/alternative stylings of his solo debut. The band changed its lineup in 2001 and Bettencourt spearheaded the Population 1 project shortly after.

Discography

• Mourning Widows (1998)
• Furnished Souls for Rent (2000)

Band members

• Nuno Bettencourt - guitars, vocals, producer, drums on 1st record (credited as "Billy Vegas")
• Donovan Bettencourt - bass
• Jeff Consi - drums from the 1st record tour onwards till the end of the band.
• Mike Mangini - drums, played at least one show in London previously to the 1st record. Mike was supposed to be the full-time drummer but decided to leave before recording to pursue other projects. It may be a controversy whether he should be considered a member of the band, since when he played Nuno still hadn't named the band.