A funk-metal supergroup maintaining connections to acts such as Suicidal Tendencies, Faith No More, Metallica, Jane's Addiction, and Avenged Sevenfold, Infectious Grooves traces its origins to 1989 when Suicidal Tendencies frontman Mike Muir established the project. The group delivered its Billboard-charting debut album, The Plague That Makes Your Booty Move... It's the Infectious Grooves, during 1991. Following the 1999 release of Mas Borracho the ensemble entered hiatus, only to reconvene in 2013 for multiple live performances and return to recording in 2020 with the EP Take You on a Ride.
Muir formed the band alongside fellow Suicidal Tendencies member bassist Robert Trujillo, Excel guitarist Adam Siegel, Dean Pleasants on guitar, and Jane’s Addiction drummer Stephen Perkins. The undertaking received parity with Suicidal Tendencies, prompting the two ensembles to share bills that required the core pair to deliver two demanding sets each evening. Their 1991 debut introduced a sound distinct from the parent outfit through a heavy funk attack recalling the Red Hot Chili Peppers, while Muir shifted toward lighter and more comedic lyrical content. The standout cut "Therapy" included guest backing vocals from Ozzy Osbourne, whose gleeful, manic roars of the title punctuated Muir's lines amid furious riffing and a potent Trujillo-Perkins rhythm section. After Perkins departed for Porno for Pyros the next year, Josh Freese joined for Sarsippius' Ark, an unusual assortment of previously unreleased songs, live recordings, covers, and fresh material featuring spoken interjections from the "Sarsippius" character. Groove Family Cyco presented a more straightforward collection of new hard-funk tracks, among them Muir's satirical lyrical jab at Rage Against the Machine in "Do What I Tell Ya!" alongside his more typical serious thematic approach. The industrious Muir also launched the punk outfit My Head with Siegel before rejoining Infectious Grooves for its fourth album, Mas Borracho, in 1999.
Shortly after that album appeared the group paused activities yet resurfaced in 2013 strictly as a live act. During 2020 Infectious Grooves issued the EP Take You on a Ride, gathering three previously unreleased 1995 recordings together with the bruising title track, the first newly tracked song in two decades.
