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Terror Trax: #190 Shadow Fashion

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Shadow Fashion

Members/ What instruments they play.

Patrick Fears – Vocals/Synth

Steve Salcido – Guitar

Svia Svenlava – Drums

Chuck Fears – Synth

Website 

Twitter @shadowfashn
facebook.com/shadowfashionmusic
IG: @shadowfashion

Album/Song/Tour you are excited about right now?

Really looking forward to catching The Birthday Massacre on tour right now. Huge fan and they always put on a killer live show!

 

 

What singers or bands inspired you growing up?

The Misfits, Nine Inch Nails, Mike Patton (Faith No More), Guns N Roses

Who are your favorite artists today?

The Midnight, Gunship, Timecop 1983. Lots of Synthwave!!

What non-musical things inspire your music?

Dreams, nightmares, life, death, hopes and fears.

Is there a place where you go to be inspired?

There’s not really a specific place I go to to because for me inspiration tends to hit at random times. When inspiration does hit I try to embrace that moment by hitting the studio as fast as I can to truly capture the vibe of what I’m feeling.

What’s been the greatest achievement of your band?

We’re pretty proud of the two music videos we’ve released so far and can’t wait to work on the third.

Where was the coolest place to play? Where did you enjoy yourselves the most?

In 2017 we played The Lovecraft Bar in Portland, Oregon and it was sick!!! From the aesthetic of the bar to the people we met there, we just fell in love and would love to go back again someday.

What are your favorite horror movies?

I absolutely love old school horror movies especially from the 1980’s. That’s the stuff I grew up on and they really don’t make them like they used to. I love everything from the musical scoring to the make up and visual FX of that era.

What was the scariest night of your life?

Years ago we were in Laredo Texas playing a gig with our horror punk band when a riot broke out in the streets as we were standing outside. All we saw was a mob of people running and heard gunshots blasting so we all kinda just scattered and ran into abandoned buildings to escape. I for sure thought we were gonna die that night but as soon as everything settled we got the hell out of there!

If you could play anywhere in the world, where would it be and who would be your opening band?

It would be a dream to play Wave-Gotik-Treffen in Leipzig Germany and have Trash Batz open.

What are you working on now for future release?

We’re currently working a cover song that I’ve been wanting to do for awhile now.  It’s a classic 90’s pop dance song which we’ll also be doing a video for. You’ll see it hopefully soon.

Final thoughts / Anything you want to tell the listeners?

We really appreciate everyone who takes the time to listen to our music, read this interview or just acknowledge what we are doing here. Much love!

Terror Trax: #189 Lucifer Fulci

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Lucifer Fulci

Lucifer does all the writing and playing of the bass and guitars, studio drummers.

Website 

www.LuciferFulci.com
Twitter: @FulciLucifer
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/LuciferFulci/
Instagram: lucifer.fulci

 

What album, tour, or song are you excited about now? 

The next one, almost done for 2020.

 

What singers or bands inspired you growing up? 

Testament, Black Sabbath, Celtic Frost

Who are your favorite artists today? 

Burning Witches, Behemoth, The Misfits

What non-musical things inspire your music? 

Horror, Halloween and the supernatural

Is there a place where you go to be inspired? 

Anywhere…at night.

What’s been the greatest achievement of your band? 

Being able to inspire younger musicians.

Where was the coolest place to play? Where did you enjoy yourselves the most? 

I have not performed my solo work live. When I was in penis flytrap years ago, the coolest place was maybe the whiskey in Hollywood or maybe in Europe

What are your favorite horror movies? 

The Witch, Hereditary, Heavy Metal, Dawn of the Dead.

What was the scariest night of your life? 

One of many included a night in the haunted estate of Charlie Chapin in Los Angeles.

If you could play anywhere in the world, where would it be and who would be your opening band? 

I would love to play in Europe again and play with Burning Witches. They rock!

What are you working on now for future release? 

The new Lucifer record. Its a lot of good, new music with great players backing me up!

Final thoughts / Anything you want to tell the listeners?

Thank you for all the support over the years. From Penis Flytrap, my solo work, Lords of October…all of it. I love you all!

Terror Trax: #188 Biomechanimal

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Biomechanimal

Matthew L. Simpson (Production, Vocals),
Keith Kamholz (Electro Axe, Live Production),
Lex Liebert (Live Guitars),
Kekko Stefano (Live Drums)

Website 

https://biomechanimal.bandcamp.com/
Twitter: https://twitter.com/biomechanimal
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/BiomechanimalMain/
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/biomechanimal/

 

What album, tour, or song are you excited about now? 

Someone else: Swarm – Eat Me Alive EP // Us: Waves Single

What singers or bands inspired you growing up? 

Iron Maiden, Ozzy, Skrillex, Rob Swire, Wednesday 13, Deathstars

Who are your favorite artists today? 

In Flames

What non-musical things inspire your music? 

Love of Cosmic Horror

Is there a place where you go to be inspired? 

Other peoples shows, or nature

What’s been the greatest achievement of your band? 

Playing in Australia

Where was the coolest place to play? Where did you enjoy yourselves the most? 

Underground basement of a punk venue. No stage, just a circle of people and 3 enormous amp stacks

What are your favorite horror movies? 

The VVitch, A Quiet Place, The Martyr

What was the scariest night of your life? 

Car broke down in a forest in a place we didn’t know. 2 AM, no phone signal, no other cars, and the battery in the car began to go.

If you could play anywhere in the world, where would it be and who would be your opening band? 

Cemetery of Fontanelle, Bring back Type O Negative while we’re at it.

What are you working on now for future release? 

A Midtempo Bass music single called Haksal (학살)

Terror Trax: #187 Reality’s Despair

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Reality’s Despair

DemarcatioN

Website 

https://realitysdespair.bandcamp.com/
Twitter: https://twitter.com/DespairReality
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/realitysdespair/

 

What album, tour, or song are you excited about now? 

Melancholic Disposition

 

What singers or bands inspired you growing up? 

The Cure, Joy Division, Front 242, Nitzer Ebb

Who are your favorite artists today? 

Cygnosic, A Projection

What non-musical things inspire your music? 

occultism

Is there a place where you go to be inspired? 

My inner self, the world

What’s been the greatest achievement of your band? 

To stay a truly independent diy band

What are your favorite horror movies? 

The Blair Witch

What was the scariest night of your life? 

Sleeping in an old and scary house while hearing noises and seeing a white shape

If you could play anywhere in the world, where would it be and who would be your opening band? 

Antwerp, opened by Cygnosic

What are you working on now for future release? 

Just started work on a new album to be released early 2021

Final thoughts / Anything you want to tell the listeners?

The band is a one man’s project, writing, recording, mixing and mastering is done by one person

Terror Trax: #186 The Dark Silence of Death

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The Dark Silence of Death

Current lineup:
Javier “Javo” Monzon – Vocals
Miguel “Vader” Paz – Bass
Jesus “Viejo Macabro” Osuna – Guitar
Juan Carlos “JC” Delgado – Drums

What album, tour, or song are you excited about now? 

We’re currently working on a new album titled “The Unliving”

 

What singers or bands inspired you growing up? 

Guns N’ Roses, Metallica, ACDC, Mecano, Hombres G and a lot of punk rock

Who are your favorite artists today? 

Cannibal Corpse, Mercyful Fate, Misfits, Behemoth, Ghost, Carnifex, Rob Zombie, Venomous Maximus

What non-musical things inspire your music? 

All things Horror… Stephen King, Alan Moore -Javo specifies-

Is there a place where you go to be inspired? 

The movies or the bar, or wherever watching movies and drinking is possible

What’s been the greatest achievement of your band? 

Releasing our first album and combining efforts to keep a steady pace collaborating and creating

Where was the coolest place to play? Where did you enjoy yourselves the most? 

Opening for Phillip H Anselmo & The Illegals at Cafe Iguana here in Monterrey

What are your favorite horror movies? 

El libro de piedra, Hasta el viento tiene miedo, Shadow of the Vampire, Altered, Martyrs, Inside, The Exorcist, Suspiria, Inferno, The Beyond, City of the Living Dead, Night of the Living Dead and all of Romero’s stuff, all of the Evil Dead stuff including TV series

What was the scariest night of your life? 

I guess any night being a child after having seen horror movies or TV series that I wasn’t supposed to watch. My mind would play tricks on me seeing things in the dark, hearing noises outside the window… -Viejo Macabro- A nightmare once about a scientist dressed up as a nazi tortured friends and family and when he took off the doctor mask it was me -Javo Monzon-

If you could play anywhere in the world, where would it be and who would be your opening band? 

We would love to do the European festival tour, Wacken, Copenhell, Hellfest, you know… About an opening band, wouldn’t know… but given the festival run fantasy, it’s more of sharing stage than who goes when… Since last year we started scratching a lot of doors to see if any of the festivals having Mercyful Fate this year would book us, lol that would be great curriculum.

What are you working on now for future release? 

A new album titled “The Unliving”. I guess we’re going full Romero / Fulci on this one

Final thoughts / Anything you want to tell the listeners?

Go check our Bandcamp site, our debut album is only $1USD in digital format and stay tuned for our new material coming soon!

Terror Trax: #185 Another Day Dawns

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Another Day Dawns

Members/ What instruments they play.

Dakota McGeehan: vocals

Tyler Ritter: guitar

Nick McGeehan: drums

Jerome Betz: bass

Website 

Anotherdaydawns.com

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/AnotherDayDawns/

Twitter: @an0therdaydawns

Instagram: @anotherdaydawns

Album/Song/Tour we are excited about right now.

Our next tour is gonna be with Adelitas Way from March into April, we’re really excited for that because it’s almost all new markets for us. It’s our first tour since release our new album ‘Stranger’ so it’s not just new markets, but all new material as well, so it’s almost like a fresh start for us which is exciting.

 

What singers or bands inspired you growing up?

Tyler: AC/DC, Judas Priest, and a lot of the classics are what got me on a roll with guitar and pushed me to better myself as a musician. I take a lot of different influence when it comes to songwriting though, a lot of bands like Moving Mountains, Tame Impala, Nine Inch Nails, etc., I love artists that can create huge, atmospheric songs that are bigger than just a riff or melody.

Who are your favorite artists today?

Tyler: it’s been a lot of hip-hop recently to be honest. I saw BROCKHAMPTON a few months back and it felt really eye-opening to me. I’ve always listened to a lot of music that’s vastly different from ours, but they taught me how to take inspiration from artists completely out of your field.

What non-musical things inspire your music?

Tyler: lots of video games from me. While I do take inspiration from certain soundtracks, it’s mostly the stories and ambiance that inspire me. Games like Bloodborne, Resident Evil, Dark Souls have such dark, expansive lore it feels very natural to write heavy, powerful songs about them.

Is there a place where you go to be inspired?

Tyler: not specifically, I just try to adjust my surroundings to the best of my liking. Bringing my acoustic out on my roof to write never fails though.

What’s been the greatest achievement of your band?

I think we’re currently gaining on it right now, and it’s hitting 100K views on our new video.  As an unsigned band it’ll be huge for us to organically reach that.  We’re getting pretty close so give it a watch and help us get there!

Where was the coolest place to play? Where did you enjoy yourselves the most?

I think the coolest place venue-wise would be The Machine Shop in Flint, MI. It’s so well run it takes away the natural stress of being on a big bill.

However we generally enjoy the West Coast a lot more, we always have a blast in LA

What are your favorite horror movies?

Tyler: The Evil Dead has to be my favorite. It might be cheating, but I wish horror-comedy was a more popular genre. It’s understandable why it isn’t big though, it’s difficult to organically get as many laughs as thrills in a movie, but it’s obvious Sam Raimi was the perfect person to make one. Other favorites recently have been Midsommar, Hereditary, and Get Out.  Ari Aster and Jordan Peele are doing great things for horror.

What was the scariest night of your life?

For a little bit in high school I dated a girl who was very into the paranormal, but definitely not in a respectful way.  She and her friends brought me to a graveyard one night where I found there was a grave they had already started digging up.  We weren’t even there for 5 minutes before we all heard a very high-pitched, scream-like noise.  Even after leaving right away plenty of strange things happened, her friend had a random panic attack later, objects were falling for seemingly no reason, and we both got nosebleeds.  Needless to say that was our last “date” and I’ve remained very paranoid since.

If you could play anywhere in the world, where would it be and who would be your opening band?

I think Wembley Arena is a common dream venue for each of us.  And as huge Office fanatics we’ve always made jokes about getting Kevin’s band “Scrantonicity” to open up for us.

What are you working on now for future release? 

We’ve got another video in the works right now, not sure if I’m allowed to say which song it’s for though.  But I think horror fans will be pleased, it’s looking to be darker than our current “Taste of Heaven” video.

Terror Trax: #184 Sharone

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Sharone

Sharone – vocals, piano, synths, composition

Website
Twitter: @sharone-music
Facebook.com/sharone.official
Instagram: @sharone_official

Album/Song/Tour we are excited about right now.

I released my new album ‘Reflection’ back in December. I’m also hitting the studio once I return to track a brand new single.

Insert one YouTube Video link:

 

What singers or bands inspired you growing up?

Amy Lee / Evanescence, Lzzy Hale / Halestorm, My Chemical Romance, and P!nk.

Who are your favorite artists today?

All of the artists listed above as well as In This Moment, New Years Day, Meg Myers, and Badflower.

What non-musical things inspire your music?

My life… haha

Is there a place where you go to be inspired?

Whenever I feel like writing music I have to isolate myself. I find that whenever I try writing with other people the product is rarely as genuine or personal as something I pour all of my emotion into when I’m in my own bubble.

What’s been the greatest achievement of your band?

2019 was my biggest year yet. I opened for five or six different nationals throughout the year, went on two tours, and released #Reflection, which is an album I am so, so proud of. I think that album alone is my greatest achievement thus far.

Where was the coolest place to play? Where did you enjoy yourselves the most?

I played in Salt Lake City in March at a venue called The Underground. That was my favorite show we played outside of Colorado all year. The space was small but every band on the bill was incredible talented as well as kind, the crowd was engaged and energetic, and my bandmates slayed. I hope to go back there soon.

What are your favorite horror movies?

As far as the classics, I love Nightmare on Elm Street, The Exorcist, Psycho, and Texas Chainsaw Massacre. From a more modern stance, I loved Saw, The Babadook, Halloween (2018), and Doctor Sleep.

What was the scariest night of your life?

I recently started using backing tracks for my life shows to incorporate the strings, choirs, harmonies, etc. and give myself the ability to move around and perform during certain parts of songs that require piano. The first show that I was using them at was opening for Puddle of Mudd in Golden, CO the first weekend of November. There were a good few hundred people at the show. It was a good crowd. My team and I were just figuring the whole system out and only got one smooth run through with the tracks the morning of the show. We decided to go for it anyway. We had a couple hiccups, but we still pulled it off. The show went great, but I still have never been more nervous/terrified in my life.

If you could play anywhere in the world, where would it be and who would be your opening band?

 I will play at Red Rocks before I die. My opening band…I think I’d rather coheadline the show with Evanescence. That’s the ultimate dream.

What are you working on now for future release?

I’m working on a lot of new music, and I’m heading into the studio when I get back from tour in April to record a new single.

Final thoughts / Anything you want to tell the listeners?

Make sure you check out my new album #Reflection. And follow me on Instagram, Spotify, Twitter, etc. to be the first to get sneak peaks of my new releases and upcoming shows!

Terror Trax: #183 Dogtablet

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Martin King – Drums, Production, Programming
Roberto Soave – Bass, Production, programming
Jared Louche – Vox & Stories

Website 

What album, tour, or song are you excited about now? 

The Feathers & Skin remix album featuring some awesome remix friends

 

What singers or bands inspired you growing up? 

Magazine, Bowie, Bauhaus, Roxy, Wire, Iggy

Who are your favorite artists today? 

Muse, Scere, ACTORS, Nothing But Thieves , Skepta,

What non-musical things inspire your music? 

Martin – My Life and a dark mental edge.
Jared – rusty hunks of metal. Chris Marker and La Jette. Lenny Bruce, performances and his book. Pools of semi-coagulated blood and the overturned throne. Diodes and dial tones. Mean Streets. Herbert Huncke, especially “Guilty Of Everything”. JG Ballard, everything though “High Rise” and “The Atrocity Exhibition” are the top of the list. Renaissance paintings and Dutch masters. Gaspar Noe. George Bellows’ painting “Stag Night At Sharkey’s”. Ryu (NOT Haruki) Murakami’s “Almost Transparent Blue”. You’ve got to love any author who inspires warnings from the Japanese Tourism Board any time he publishes a new book, as is the case with every RYU Murakami book, and “Almost Transparent Blue” is the acme. Dawn at the outer ring. Ink spatters. Realm Of The Senses. Broken robots that like to fuck. Acrylic paint. The poetry of Gil Scott-Heron, Bobby Seale and Amiri Baraka. Broken glass. John Singer Sargent’s paintings. Roxy and the Lido after dark. Christian Marcklay, not particularly his music, though his scratch-guitar was killer, but I love his recreated album covers and his experimental movies. The anarchitect and deconstructionist supremo Gordon Matta-Clarke. Mingus, Miles and Monk. William Gibson, most of his work though “Pattern Recog” was directionless. Teeth and tail bones and Tarkovsky. Eric Satie around lunch. Absolutely everything Francis Bacon created as well as his mythology. Caetano Veloso and Gal Costa. George Bataille is superb though “Story Of The Eye” is peerless in his oeuvre. Magazines, remember those, particularly 1970’s picture-rich editions as they’re best for collage. JK Huysmans “La Bas”. Werner Herzog, all of him, and Wim Wenders Himmel Uber Berlin and Paris Texas. Cremaster 5. Autumnal wind through skeletal trees. Marguerite Yourcenar. Ray Barretto. John Waters’ Female Trouble. ‘A Little History Of The World’ by Gombrich. Weather patterns and dusk. Night too. Queneau’s “Exercise De Style”. Laughter. Tears. The occasional dawn, and the Pearl Bailey quote heard in Cap d’Antibes at the Valpolli mansion: “Darling, until a few years ago, I never knew there was but one eight o’clock in the day”. Maya Angelou “I Know Why The Caged Bird Sings” though she’s consistently amazing. Monty Python. Samba. Wu-Tang, both of them. Chow Yun Fat and John Woo having sex. Berlin between ’62 and ’89. Blazing Saddles. Luniz “5 On It”. The Unknown.

Is there a place where you go to be inspired? 

Inside myself

What’s been the greatest achievement of your band? 

Still being alive after so many years doing this shit.

Where was the coolest place to play? Where did you enjoy yourselves the most? 

Martin – I once played in a lava crater halfway up Mount Etna. We were above the clouds but above us was the glowing rim of the Volcano. Pretty damn awesome.
Jared – n the basement of an abandoned hotel in downtown Detroit. Roberto – Arenes De Frejus with The Cure standing in on bass for the absent Simon Gallup

What are your favorite horror movies? 

We’re old school so that makes it Texas Chainsaw, the original. Evil Dead, of course. Jacob’s Ladder will forever hold a special grave in my heart. Polanski’s Repulsion. The original Wicker Man. Alien for the creeps, Aliens for the awesome comedy. Nicholas Roeg’s Don’t Look Now. Let The Right One In. 28 Days Later. Last House On The Left. Seven. Night Of The Hunter.

What was the scariest night of your life? 

Jared – That would have to be the night Dave Brockie from GWAR and I almost died on the highway, but I think everyone knows that story by now.
Martin – Fighting skinheads behind the venue in Minneapolis after a Pigface show. They’d been chasing our support band to beat them down in homophobic rage. We won’t stand for that shit. Knives, Police, adrenaline and some scary stuff. My first experience with baton and Mace happy US cops actually. Martin Atkins saved me from being arrested. Roberto – Almost drowning in Canal D’Arles, drunk with a bicycle round my neck after one of the Cure shows in France.

If you could play anywhere in the world, where would it be and who would be your opening band? 

The Hanging Gardens Of Babylon, and though I’ve seen him a number of times, I’d want to share a bill with Bowie. He wouldn’t be supporting us though. We’d be supporting him. The frustrating thing about being the headliner is that it’s a real challenge for me to be able to focus on the support bands. I’m always too tugged and distracted and fractured to be able to properly appreciate whatever’s happening before I play. This way we’d get to double-barrel the audience and then kick back with our circle and watch the man at work in one of the most glorious and deliriously l beautiful locations in the world.

What are you working on now for future release? 

We’re planning a physical limited edition release of Feathers& Skin with some new tracks which will only be available on it. Working on remixes for other artists…..and somehow working out how we can tour this thing we call Dogtablet

Final thoughts / Anything you want to tell the listeners?

The most important thing for us is to get our music out. So we ask you to use social media to share and spread the word. We don’t care if it’s streaming Spotify, Deezer, Fuckstream or whatever. It aint about the money……

Terror Trax: #182 Beauty in the Suffering

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Beauty in the Suffering

All music/lyrics written, programmed, arranged, performed, and produced by DieTrich Thrall

Website
 BeautyInTheSuffering.com

youtube.com/user/BITSuffering
IG @BITSuffering
facebook.com/BeautyInTheSuffering
beautyinthesuffering.bandcamp.com/
twitter.com/BITSuffering

Album/Song/Tour we are excited about right now.

DT: I will be filming scenes for several different films including; “COMPATIBLE,” a horror film about a new cutting edge dating app that goes awry, “IN THE WORLD OF THE LONG BREATH,” a modern vampire tale, and the CLOWN MOTEL: SPIRITS ARISE” sequel.

What singers or bands inspired you growing up?

DT: Where do I start? Prince was always my biggest influence. I made a study of about a dozen of his albums back in the day when I used to do that sort of thing. I still revisit his albums frequently. David Bowie also. Motley Crue and a lot of 80’s hair metal. Iron Maiden and some metal. NIN, Ministry and some industrial. I am also a bit of a closet classical music fan so Tchaikovsky, Schubert, Chopin, Beethoven, and others will creep into my playlist. Hans Zimmer, Bear McCreary, and Craig Armstrong are some modern movie and television scorers that I also keep up with.

Who are your favorite artists today?

DT: Aimee Mann, Ghost, HIM, and Rammstein come to mind musically. Anything by Zack Snyder or Christopher Nolan, Ronald D Moore (Battlestar Galctica), J. Michael Straczynski (Babylon 5), Shawn Ryan (The Shield) are huge influences. Jantje Friese and Baran bo Odar (Dark), Michael Petroni (Messiah) more recently.

What non-musical things inspire your music?

DT: Most recently a show called Messiah which deals with a possible Second Coming and “Dark” which delves into time travel. Dark actually reminded me of a book I used to read when I was a kid called Cave Of Time which was a Choose Your Own Adventure book. A lot of science fiction series and movies have always inspired. Some recent viewing includes Watchmen, Black Mirror, Altered Carbon, Love / Death / & Robots.

Comic books too. Some recent reads include East Of West,  Jupiter’s Legacy, The Boys  – I have recently been revisiting Planetary and Preacher which I was in to when they were being published.

Also and key – following up on my history studies. I am a history major still in pursuit of my Bachelor’s. My area of study is military so I’m always digging around on WW1 & 2, Civil War, American Revolution, Both European hundred years war related reading.

Is there a place where you go to be inspired?

DT: Visual media that I just mentioned are a big part. A lot of times I just escape into my head and flesh out story ideas or whatever I am processing at the moment.

What’s been the greatest achievement of your band?

DT: Producing a handful of horror-themed music videos. 2 have been released with several in the final stages of post-production. Performing the song “Reveille” picked up by Clown Motel was cool.   I rewrote and produced a Motley Crue cover of “LIVE WIRE” for my previous band MARAZENE which got the attention of rock legends Nikki Sixx and Tommy Lee. I think I got an email from Motleys attorney within 5 minutes of posting the song on our social media asking if we had properly licensed the song.

Where was the coolest place to play?

DT: There’s so many different interesting venues out there. One of the more recent ones was while I was on tour in Lyon, France at a club called Rock N Eat Live. From what I understand it was a an old school prison at one point and by old school I mean several hundred years ago old school. There were multiple rooms for the bar, the stage, the merch area and then there were all these mini cells where we were told to leave some of our gear which they then locked up. So my gear was actually in prison in France for a short period of time! I noticed some people having drinks and lounging around in various cells. They had an Iron Maiden shrine in one of them. As a history major I definitely got a kick out of the place.

What are your favorite horror movies?

DT: Zombies of course. Romero’s original Dawn Of The Dead but Zack Snyder’s remake was strong as well. Skeleton Key kinda freaked me out the first time I saw it. VVitch was interesting and I really dug the old school speech that the script utilized. Hereditary more recently was the first movie in awhile that made me feel “Ahhh!”, Prince Of Darkness and Event Horizon are older faves and were the first time I had considered cosmic horror and kept me awake a few nights. Martyrs also a fresh take. The Ring too.

What was the scariest night of your life?

DT: There are several actually. One of the more odder memories I have was back when I was a teen and one of my friends and I at the time had just gotten our drivers certification. I think this is before receiving our actual drivers license. Anyways, somehow we convinced a friend of my mothers to borrow his car (!) to take it for a drive. Not five minutes into the drive a black cat darted across the street in front of us as we were driving and I was like “Yikes – how weird!” Not long after that it began to snow lightly making the roads a bit slick. My friend thought it would be a good idea to accelerate when it wasn’t needed and we spun out of control and nailed a telephone pole head-on. Somehow made it out of that with only a tooth hitting the dashboard. But the car was trashed and if we had been going any faster there could have been some window ejections. Scary stuff just getting familiar with driving – lesson learned. Beyond that there’s a solid batch of moments that I have revisited where I have come to realize if I had made one small adjustment in the direction I had moved it could have been a very seriously game-ending situation.

If you could play anywhere in the world, where would it be and who would be your opening band?

DT: Moscow in large part due to my study of Russian history during both world wars. Tokyo too as runner up. Thrall-Zilla is about due a gander.

What are you working on now for future release?

DT: I have about a dozen Beauty In The Suffering songs I am in the mixing stage and several music videos I am putting the final touches on. With everything working out I am hoping for a Fall release.

Final thoughts / Anything you want to tell the listeners? Very much looking forward to seeing everyone on the new Lords Of Acid tour! Let’s party!

Terror Trax: #181 I Ya Toyah

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I Ya Toyah

Ania Tarnowska: Music/Lyrics/Arrangement/Production/Vocals/Keys/Guitars/Drums/Programming

Website 

https://www.iyatoyah.com/

Twitter: https://twitter.com/iyatoyah

Bandcamp: https://iyatoyah.bandcamp.com/

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/IYaToyah

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/iyatoyah/

 

What album, tour, or song are you excited about now? 

I’m excited about my own release, Code Blue Reloaded + Code Blue Revelations remix album. Other than this, I look forward to 3TEETH and Carnifex tour featuring Tim Skold and The Browning

What singers or bands inspired you growing up? 

Iron Maiden, Opeth, Depeche Mode, Soundgarden, Audioslave, Sade, NIN, Tool, Tori Amos, Guano Apes.

Who are your favorite artists today? 

Depeche Mode, NIN, Tool, Mortiis, The Midnight, 3TEETH, Health

What non-musical things inspire your music? 

Every day observations

Is there a place where you go to be inspired? 

My own head seems to be a perfect hub for ridiculous ideas turned music.

What’s been the greatest achievement of your band? 

Code Blue album release, Code Blue Reloaded drop, then touring with Pigface, and going on the road with Zwaremachine….But there is more to it than those events. It is a flow, chain reaction, it is continuous 🙂

Where was the coolest place to play? Where did you enjoy yourselves the most? 

I loved playing Thalia Hall, Chicago. It was a sold-out show on the gloomy November night… My homecoming show from tour with Pigface. The venue is known to be haunted so it was a lot of dark fun going on that night.

What are your favorite horror movies? 

I love Children of the Corn– probably equally for the plot darkness and amazing soundtrack. Something you’d bath in blood bath to 😉 Others are Strangers, Psycho, anything Hitchcock… Wrong Turn, Exorcist, It, oh, there is so many of them!

What was the scariest night of your life? 

There is more than one. When I was in car accident at the age of 12….it shredded my guitar and my head was smashed, skull fractured, but all I could think of was my Dad who was in this accident with me, and my Mom and Sister who waited at home for us. I was only scared for short- I had no idea how badly injured I was. I fell into coma after this, and they didn’t know if I will ever wake up. So, pretty scary. There are more but too dark to share….

If you could play anywhere in the world, where would it be and who would be your opening band? 

Dalhalla in Sweden, it is an open-air theatre located in a former limestone quarry, and it is used as a summer music venue. It is gorgeous! I’d love to open the show up there for Depeche Mode.

What are you working on now for future release? 

I am prepping to write the material for the next album. Currently working on some music production parts, testing some plugins, sounds, getting inspired….

Final thoughts / Anything you want to tell the listeners?

Yes. Help me spread the disease of music and infect the human race! But also, I love you. Thank you for not just hearing, but also for listening.

Terror Trax: #180 Spank the Nun

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Spank the Nun

ERIC writing and production and sound…
Jeremy additional writing and sounds.

Website 

www.spankthenun.com
Twitter: @spankthenun
Bandcamp: https://spankthenun.bandcamp.com/
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/pg/spankthenun/videos/
Instagram: @spankthenun

What album, tour, or song are you excited about now? 

Our new album released on 1/28/2020 Initial Decay Control… many of the tracks or getting played in the clubs and on top playlists. We are heavily focused on promoting the new album and getting it heard. We are working on a single for Glitch and Burn and also a deluxe version is in the works. We are developing the live show now and also working on tons of new material that will be out later in the year too.

 

What singers or bands inspired you growing up? 

Front Line Assembly, Front 242, Bi-God 20, Bowie, Bauhaus, Leather Strip, Wumpscut – our music oftens pulls from these particular influences… we don’t aim to copy but pull the best bits forward and pay homage to what once was and is again… fans of these bands will feel at home with our sound, even though it is different than what is out there now.

Who are your favorite artists today? 

Angelspit, HARSH R, KREIGN, Isserley, Conspiracy Thief, Slighter, ESA, iVardensphere – We are big into bands that sound different and stand out within the industrial genre, especially the ones that can work well with noise and make it sonically appealing and not just covering up a lack of creativity and talent. There is so much great new music right now.

What non-musical things inspire your music? 

horror movies, serial killer documentaries, sci fi horror… I (Eric) watch Event Horizon every few months and I just watch Henry A Portrait of Serial Killer for the first time in years. We are constantly looking for new films and documentaries to draw ideas from. I keep a digital notebook of ideas for songs and videos and am constantly jotting down notes when I am watching. The idea for the song came from a kids show that happened to be on and an idea I had had for a while for a song, and it all clicked when I was watching some nonsense on TV for just a minute.

Is there a place where you go to be inspired? 

my studio, or throw on some scifi horror or zombie horror, we keep an extensive list of ideas that we can go to, wether it is notes, loops we have made, samples that we have curated over the years… we have many things to pull from to get inspired when needed

What’s been the greatest achievement of your band? 

getting our first album out so far and working with some of the best in the business… it was important to us that the album be different and have 12 solid tracks that any of them could be singles… we didn’t want any throw away songs on there and we want to make sure it was not over or under produced… but sounded just right. We didn’t want cover things up with noise, we want to make noise the music. For example the song SIN is all sample except for one string part played in a couple spots… the rest are all found sounds and samples.

Where was the coolest place to play? Where did you enjoy yourselves the most? 

Coolest place we have played in the past, is the Roxy and the Whiskey A Go-Go in Hollywood, we haven’t toured with this new music yet… but we are putting that together now so we can do a few live shows in 2020. Right now we are looking at clubs and festivals.

What are your favorite horror movies? 

Event Horizon, Pandorum, Evil Dead, The Thing, Texas Chainsaw Massacre, Alien, Session 9, Audition, Ravenous, Midnight Meat Train, Spiral, Splinter, Tale of Two Sisters and many more. There are some weird as Japanese Cyberpunk movies like Tetsuo and Rubber Johnny that are some of our favorites. We have actually cut songs and videos for the next album already using these influences.

What was the scariest night of your life? 

Hard to choose. But getting stocked in clubs by redneck frat boys that shouldn’t be there. They would try to dance with our girls and pick a fight with us, they eventually got kicked out and then back in later and we had to fight them when they attack my girl. Security kicked them out after and they waited outside for us for hours. Luckily after we got out the gave up quickly and left… but we were paranoid heading to the next spot and all the way home. And for weeks after that.

If you could play anywhere in the world, where would it be and who would be your opening band? 

That is tough. In front of the right crowd that is ready to embrace us and enjoy it to the max. There are so many bands that would be amazing but we should be opening for all of them not for us.

What are you working on now for future release? 

We just released our new album in January and we are working on the next single and a possible deluxe version of the album. We have tons of remixes and tracks we didn’t use for the album. We are also working on the next album, it is very close to tracked at this point but we aren’t in a hurry to release it. We are also working with several other artists on some additional collaboration projects. There will be new SPANKTHENUN in one form of the other every other week this year… no joke. Including at least one more full-length album, maybe two more.

Final thoughts / Anything you want to tell the listeners?

We are here and plan to big impression by building the name and continually putting out high-quality product. We will release a new remix or song or a remix of someone else’s every couple of weeks.

Terror Trax: #179 Her Despair

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Her Despair

J – vocals / Dan – guitar / Vikki – bass / Jord – guitar / Toby – keyboards

Website 

facebook.com/herdespair

https://twitter.com/herdespairband

https://herdespair.bandcamp.com

https://www.instagram.com/herdespairband/

What album, tour, or song are you excited about now? 

Our latest record “Exorcisms of Eroticism”

 

What singers or bands inspired you growing up? 

Sisters of Mercy / HIM / 69 Eyes

Who are your favorite artists today? 

Nick Cave / My Dying Bride / Woods of Ypres

What non-musical things inspire your music? 

Religion and sex

Is there a place where you go to be inspired? 

Alone in a dark room

What’s been the greatest achievement of your band? 

Our most recent record “Exorcisms of Eroticism”

Where was the coolest place to play? Where did you enjoy yourselves the most? 

Darker Days Festival UK

What are your favorite horror movies? 

Halloween / Night of the Living Dead / Blair Witch Project

What was the scariest night of your life? 

The first night I died

If you could play anywhere in the world, where would it be and who would be your opening band? 

M’era Luna Festival would be the dream. I think we’d be the opener, but let’s pretend the Sisters are headlining

What are you working on now for future release? 

Skeletons of what will become the next record; whether a three track EP or fifteen track album. Time will tell…

Anything you want to tell the listeners?

Our hearts break for you – thank you for your undying support

Read R.L. Merrill’s review of Her Despair, here: https://horroraddicts.wordpress.com/2020/02/28/merrills-musical-musingsher-despair-and-best-of-2019/

Terror Trax: #178 Justin Symbol aka Star Daddy

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Justin Symbol aka Star Daddy

Star Daddy – vocals, beats, programming, bass guitar
Ryan Lynch – guitar
DJ Swamp – beats, samples, scratching
Byron Alvarez – drums

Who writes your lyrics?

Star Daddy – I write all the lyrics, other than the one song “The Devil You Know” which was written by Ryan Lynch

Website

justinsymbol.com

IG @the_star_daddy

facebook.com/thestardaddy

stardaddy.bandcamp.com

twitter.com/thestardaddy

Album/Song/Tour we are excited about right now.

My new album – ’Candy Man’ !!!

 

 

What singers or bands inspired you growing up?

Marilyn Manson, Pink Floyd, David Bowie, The Doors, Nine Inch Nails, Nirvana, Ministry, Skinny Puppy, Kanye West

Who are your favorite artists today? Tyler the Creator, Ghostemane, XXX Tentacion, Lil Peep, Ouija Macc, Gvllow, Razakel, Angel Nightmare

What non-musical things inspire your music? Surrealist art, pop art, fashion, colors

Is there a place where you go to be inspired? Traveling, walking and hiking around Los Angeles, Yoga, Exercise

What’s been the greatest achievement of your band? Opening for Ministry on tour, opening for Twiztid

Where was the coolest place to play? Where did you enjoy yourselves the most? We always love playing Florida. Best crowds.

What are your favorite horror movies? The Exorcist, Suspiria, Silence of the Lambs, Halloween, Texas Chainsaw Massacre, Pink Flamingos…is that horror?!

What was the scariest night of your life? In 2018, while on tour with Ministry we were driving in the tundra across the border from Canada to the U.S. It was about 3 or 4am and the road was a pure sheet of ice! Suddenly we came across a herd of elk crossing the road in the blizzard. Each one was about 1,000 pounds and could have totaled the van, and we almost hit the whole herd! They were completely un-phased as our van ground to a halt on the ice road, and they passed silently by. Also one of the most beautiful things I’ve ever seen!

If you could play anywhere in the world, where would it be and who would be your opening band? I would love to play in Europe specifically Germany and the UK I know we’d do really well.

What are you working on now for future release? I’ve been experimenting in fashion, designing custom leather jackets and punk style DIY pants with my girlfriend, (sideshow performer) Nola Star. As far as music, I recently did a feature for Razakel and I’ll be featuring on my friend Buddy Danger’s song. Been dabbling in my own beats too but the direction for future recordings is still very much up in the air!

Final thoughts / Anything you want to tell the listeners? Tune in, stream, watch, share and tell your friends! And thank you to those who’ve been listening and coming to shows! This is just the beginning!

Terror Trax: Raven Chronicles

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Band Name: Raven Chronicles
Brandon Vaughn – All music

https://ravenchronicles.hearnow.com/
https://www.facebook.com/Ghost.Raven.Chronicles/

Album/Song/Tour we are excited about right now: Recent release of “A Ghost Story” debut album.  Soon to release 2nd album: “The Haunting of Briarwood Manor”

What singers or bands inspired you growing up?  Old progressive rock groups (Genesis, Kansas, Pink Floyd) as well as modern composers (Samuel Barber, Beethoven, Hans Zimmer).

Who are your favorite artists today?  Midnight Syndicate, composers of modern horror movies (Insidious, Conjuring)

What non-musical things inspire your music?  Movies, nature, paranormal investigations

Is there a place where you go to be inspired?  Nature, and learning that inspiration is more about perspiration (and consistency)

What’s been the greatest achievement of your band?  Releasing the first album

Where was the coolest place to play? Where did you enjoy yourselves the most?  Have not played live yet, hoping to someday play live with an actual orchestra

What are your favorite horror movies?  Insidious, Conjuring

What was the scariest night of your life?  I once stayed in a haunted hotel in Weatherford, TX and saw lights turning on and off in various rooms.

If you could play anywhere in the world, where would it be and who would be your opening band?   I would play in a Greek Colosseum (like Yanni) but playing spooky, paranormal music with a full orchestra and choir.  I would love for Midnight Syndicate to open for me, or Hans Zimmer.

What are you working on now for future release?  I’m currently finishing the 2nd album “Haunting of Briarwood Manor” that I hope to release by this Halloween.

Final thoughts / Anything you want to tell the listeners?  I would love for everyone to enjoy the music and let me know.  I would love interaction on Facebook with fans of the music!  Spread the word if you love the music!