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Quebec’s Rock Machine Reborn After Outlaws Murder

What This Documentary Will Cover
In this film, we'll trace the Rock Machine's journey from near extinction to unexpected revival. We'll revisit the brutal Quebec Biker War of the 1990s and early 2000s, a conflict that left more than a hundred people dead and nearly wiped the club from the map. From there, we'll look at how the club's absorption into the Bandidos was meant to save them—but instead led to their identity being erased.
Along the way, we'll examine key turning points: the Lennoxville Massacre that set the stage for their creation, their bloody rivalry with the Hells Angels, and the patch-over that transformed them into Bandidos. Then we'll follow how the shocking Shedden Massacre in 2006—where eight Bandidos were murdered by their own—created the opportunity for the Rock Machine name to return.
Everything you hear is grounded in historical accounts, legal records, and respected reporting. No myths—only the real story of how a defeated club found new life through determination, nostalgia, and the will to reclaim a lost identity.
Origins: The Lennoxville Massacre and Rise of the Rock Machine
To understand the rebirth of the Rock Machine, we have to begin with the violence that set the stage in Quebec. In March 1985, the Hells Angels carried out what became known as the Lennoxville Massacre. Five members of their own North Chapter were slaughtered at a clubhouse near Sherbrooke, Quebec. Their bodies were stuffed into sleeping bags and dumped in a river. The killings weren't against rivals—they were against their own men, punished for being reckless and drawing too much police attention.
The massacre shocked Canada. It showed how far the Hells Angels were willing to go to tighten control, and it left many in the biker world disgusted. Among those disturbed was Salvatore "Sal" Cazzetta, a Montreal biker with strong underworld ties. He and his brother Giovanni had been close to other motorcycle clubs and crime networks in Quebec, but after Lennoxville, Salvatore refused to join the Angels. He didn't want to pledge loyalty to a club willing to kill its own so coldly.
Instead, in 1986, the Cazzetta brothers founded their own motorcycle club: the Rock Machine. Built in Montreal, the new club attracted men who wanted the brotherhood of biker culture without bowing to the Hells Angels' violent dominance. From the start, the Rock Machine positioned itself as a rival force, drawing in members from street gangs, ex-club members, and organized crime associates.
The Rock Machine's rise was fueled by more than just pride. Montreal's drug trade was booming, and control of that market was the real prize. By rejecting the Hells Angels and forming their own club, the Cazzettas planted the seeds of what would soon become one of the most violent turf wars Canada had ever seen.
In the aftermath of Lennoxville, Quebec's biker landscape was fractured. The Hells Angels were feared but distrusted, and the Rock Machine emerged as a bold alternative. What started as resistance to a massacre would evolve into open war for control of Montreal's streets.
Quebec Biker War Erupts (1994–2002)
By the early 1990s, the uneasy balance between the Rock Machine and the Hells Angels collapsed. Montreal's drug trade—lucrative, crowded, and violent—became the battlefield. In 1994, the Quebec Biker War began, and it would last nearly a decade.
The Hells Angels, already one of the world's most feared clubs, moved aggressively to dominate the market. The Rock Machine refused to yield. What followed was a campaign of shootings, bombings, and arson that transformed Quebec into a war zone. Car bombs detonated outside businesses and homes. Drive-by shootings left bodies on city streets. Innocent bystanders, including an 11-year-old boy named Daniel Desrochers, were killed when an explosives-packed car went off outside a community center in 1995.
Law enforcement later estimated that more than 160 people died during the conflict, with hundreds more wounded. Bomb squads became a fixture in Montreal. Families lived in fear of being caught in the crossfire. The scale of violence shocked the public and put enormous pressure on Canadian authorities to act.
The Rock Machine, though outnumbered, proved determined. They drew support from street gangs like the Pelletier Clan and even courted alliances abroad, eventually looking to the Bandidos in Europe and the U.S. for protection. The Hells Angels responded with overwhelming firepower, deploying their Nomad chapter—men hand-picked to crush rivals.
The war was not just about drugs; it was about control of Montreal's underworld. For nearly eight years, bodies piled up, neighborhoods burned, and headlines screamed of biker bloodshed. By the early 2000s, the Rock Machine was battered and desperate for survival.