Name: MY LIFE WITH THE THRILL KILL KULT "Strange Affairs Tour"
Start: 2019-05-28T20:00:00-07:00
Location: 191 Toole

MY LIFE WITH THE THRILL KILL KULT "Strange Affairs Tour"

191 Toole

My Life With The Thrill Kill Kult

The Mission Creeps

My Life With The Thrill Kill Kult...<a href="http:// https://mylifewiththethrillkillkult.com/" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">Official Website</a> Hailing from Chicago’s renowned Wax Trax! Records stable of recording artists, MY LIFE WITH THE THRILL KILL KULT have been conjuring up sonic tales of sex, blasphemy and kitschy horror since 1987. Along with label mates such as Front 242, KMFDM and Ministry, TKK (as often abbreviated), helped develop the industrial music genre, but they themselves continued to evolve, creating one of the most diverse repertoires in modern day music. Their sound can be described as electronic rock, heavily influenced by both disco and funk. One of their most distinctive characteristics is the use of spoken-word samples lifted from B-movies laced throughout their songs. Since debuting, they have released 13 studio albums, and their music has been featured in a variety of films, television/cable shows and soundtracks, all the while making a reputation for themselves as one of the most notorious and controversial cult bands of their generation.Artist Franke Nardiello and musician Marston Daley, two Chicago neighbors who enjoyed late night burritos while watching foreign horror movies on VHS rented from the corner store, began conspiring to make a trashy B movie (in the style of Russ Meyer and John Waters) to be called “My Life With The Thrill Kill Kult”. While the film itself never came to fruition, they also wrote some music to be the accompanying soundtrack. Both worked at Wax Trax! Records in Chicago, and when the label heard the tracks, they were intrigued and eager to release it.The duo took the title of the film as the name for their band, and decided to focus on the musical group full time. Taking the stage names Groovie Mann (Nardiello) and Buzz McCoy (Daley), they worked on creating an occult-biker meets disco-rock influence look for the project, which included a bevy of voluptuous back-up singers and dancers known as the BOMB GANG GIRLZ. The New York Times wrote, “Sex, blasphemy, big beats and go-go dancing; they’re all in a day’s work for My Life With The Thrill Kill Kult ”. This attracted the attention of indie fans and the ire of religious groups in practically equal measure. They released their first album I See Good Spirits And I See Bad Spirits in 1988 followed up by the hard-hitting dance floor classics Kooler Than Jesus and A Girl Doesn’t Get Killed By A Make-Believe Lover Cuz It’s Hot, which featured no-wave chanteuse Lydia Lunch on vocals. By the time they released their second album, Confessions Of A Knife (1990), they were far and away one of the biggest selling acts on the label.In 1991, the band embarked on the decadent “Sexplosion! Tour”, titled after their third album. Alternative Press reviewed the show as “Sin-sational!”. The tour was a success and the record sold so well that they signed a deal with Interscope Records shortly afterwards, and the single “Sex On Wheelz” became a sizeable radio hit. Hollywood also embraced the group, recognizing the unique cinematic aspect of their sound. The band's music has appeared in a slew of films and tv/cable shows including, director Ralph Bakshi’s ‘Cool World”, Paul Verhoven’s saucy “Showgirls”, MTV's "Beavis And Butthead", and the cult film classic “The Crow”, in which the ensemble make a cameo appearance performing their song “After The Flesh”. More recently the KULT was written into the story line of the 2014 film “Sexy Evil Genius” starring Seth Green. THRILL KILL KULT continue to release new material via their own SleazeBox Records label (sleazebox.com) and tour extensively with a rotating cast of musicians and dubious characters, however the core of the project has always been Nardiello and Daley, both on record and in the live act. Their performances sizzle with sleaze and infectious grooves, as Melody Maker once described, "A red hot cabaret from Hell". They begin their 4th decade this year with the release of a new album, In The House Of Strange Affairs on February 14th, and a North American tour commencing May 5th in Las Vegas. The current line-up is Groovie Mann (vocals), Buzz McCoy (keys), Mimi Star (bass), Justin Thyme (drums), Arena Rock (Bomb Gang Girl).

Curse Mackey...<a href="http:// www.CurseMackey.com" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">Official Website</a> Based in Austin,Texas, Curse Mackey’s new one-man solo project rides high on the New Wave of American Industrial music. A charismatic creation laced with doom crushing drones, seductive synth pulsations and dirty-minded beats layered upon hypnotic, ambient noise manipulations, ‘scream of conscious’ lyrical prose fueled with modern industrial dance floor electricity. Mackey is a long-time member of industrial supergroup Pigface, industrial punk act Evil Mothers and spent six years as an acolyte in My Life with the Thrill Kill Kult.  His participation in PIGFACE and other projects has led Mackey to collaborative opportunities over the years with such luminaries as Ogre of Skinny Puppy, Martin Atkins of Ministry/Killing Joke, En Esch of KMFDM, Genesis P-Orridge of Psychic TV, Danny Carey of Tool, and Mat Mitchell of Puscifer amongst others.   Mackey’s forthcoming debut album ‘Instant Exorcism’ will be released in the summer of 2019 with the first single to be released in Spring 2019. Curse has just completed a string of sold-out shows supporting Clan of Xymox as well dates in 2018 with Front 242, Chemlab, She Wants Revenge, 3teeth, PIG and more.  For fans of Skinny Puppy, Cold Cave, Soft Moon, Coil, Author + Punisher, Clan of Xymox, Pigface, Nine Inch Nails, categorize as alternative/electronic/industrial

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