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Californication Soundtrack Season 4 (Album) by My Life With The Thrill Kill Kult

Artist Biography For My Life With The Thrill Kill Kult

My Life With The Thrill Kill Kult Often Shortened To Thrill Kill Kult Or TKK Is An American Industrial Rock Band Formed In 1987 Originally Based In Chicago Illinois United States. Along With Wax Trax Labelmates Ministry KMFDM And Front 242 Thrill Kill Kult Helped Develop The Industrial Music Genre But They Themselves Continued To Evolve Creating A Sound That Is Not Easily Identified Or Categorized. Their Music Can Be Described As Electronic Club Music With Heavy Beats Reminiscent Of Both Disco And Funk Yet Amplified To A Sometimes Abrasive Level. Thrill Kill Kult Reflected A Shift Where Dance Records Could Be Ominous And Aggressive And They Laced Their Music With Riffs And References That Would Seem More At Home In A Heavy Metal Group. One Of Their Most Distinctive Characteristics Is Their Use Of Spoken-Word Samples Lifted From B-Movies And Other Sources. Frankie Nardiello And Marston Daley Met In The Spring Of 1987 While Touring Together With The Band Ministry. Soon After Nardiello And Daley Began To Conceive An Art Film To Be Called My Life With The Thrill Kill Kult - A Headline Taken From A British Tabloid Nardiello Had Noted A Few Years Prior When He Lived In London. The Film Was Never Completed But The Music They Had Recorded For Its Soundtrack Appealed To Wax Trax! Records Who Released The Completed Songs As A Three-Track EP Entitled My Life With The Thrill Kill Kult 1987 . Dubbing Themselves Groovie Mann Nardiello And Buzz McCoy Daley They Launched My Life With The Thrill Kill Kult. When The First EP Sold Well A Full Length Album I See Good Spirits And I See Bad Spirits Followed In 1988. Both Attracted Attention From College Radio Stations And Dancefloors As Well As Religious Groups Who Balked At The Overtly Occult Imagery In Both The Music And The Artwork Of The Releases. The Group Continued To Stoke Controversy With Each Subsequent Release Which Included A 12-Inch Single Entitled Some Have To Dance... Some Have To Kill 1988 And They Became Even More Popular With Release Of The 12-Inch Single Kooler Than Jesus 1989 . Wax Trax! Records Combined The First EP And These Two Singles And Released It As A Compilation Entitled Kooler Than Jesus In 1989. Nardiello And Daley Recruited Thomas Thorn Aka Buck Ryder To Play Keyboards And Administer Samples On The Band's First Tour. Brian Gillespie Aka Skip Town From The Five And Later Concussion Ensemble Played A Classic Slingerland Silver Sparkle Drum Set With Sample Triggers. The Live Act Also Featured Female Backup Singers Referred To As "The Bomb Gang Girlz" Among The First Of Whom Were Jackie Blaque Rhonda Bond And Kitty Killdare. Thrill Kill Kult's Second Album Confessions Of A Knife... 1990 Became One Of The Best-Selling Releases On Wax Trax! And Continued To Goad Parental Groups With Song Titles Like A Daisy Chain 4 Satan And Rivers Of Blood Years Of Darkness. The Band Released A Cassette Entitled El Infierno 1990 That Showcased Live Disco Versions Of Darker TKK Songs From The 1989 Inferno Xpress Tour. The Thrill Kill Kult Kept Adding A Revolving Cast Of Characters To Their Stage Show That Over The Years Has Included No Wave Chanteuse Lydia Lunch Bassist Charles Levi Guitarist William Tucker Chris "Curse" Mackey From The Bands Evil Mothers And Grim Faeries Lady Galore From Lords Of Acid Who Appeared In TKK As Cherrie Blue And A Great Number Of Artists Sound Technicians Musicians And Filmmakers. Creatively However The Core Of The Band Has Always Been Nardiello And Daley Both On Record And In The Live Act. The "Sexplosion!" Tour In 1991 Achieved A Particularly Notorious Reputation. In Addition To Being Interestingly Staged Featuring An Actual Bar And Bartender Onstage With The Band The Show Also Featured A Male/female Duo Known As Ten And Avaluscious White Who Appeared Onstage Dressed In A Number Of Different Guises. At One Point Ten Was Dressed As Jesus Strapped To A Cross And Featuring A Large Black Dildo Or Alternately A Large Sausage Between His Legs While Avaluscious White Dress As A Demon Girl Simulated Oral Sex On Him. This Created Controversy And Protest In A Number Of American Locations Adding To The Band's Notoriety. Thomas Thorn Departed In 1991 From The Live Act To Form His Own Band The Electric Hellfire Club Which Embraced The Overtly Satanic Themes My Life With The Thrill Kill Kult Had Only Flirted With. Thrill Kill Kult Left Wax Trax! Records After Their Third Album Sexplosion! 1991 Surpassed Confessions Of A Knife... To Become The Biggest Seller On The Imprint And Major Label Interscope Records Took Notice. TKK Signed To Interscope Which Re-Released Sexplosion! And Garnered The Band Their Most Familiar Alternative Radio Hit Sex On Wheelz. Their Following Two Albums 13 Above The Night 1993 And Hit & Run Holiday 1995 Were Recorded For Interscope Until They Parted With The Label In 1996. The Band's Subsequent Album A Crime For All Seasons 1997 Was Released On Red Ant Records. Rykodisc Became The Band's Next And Most Current Home After Putting Out The Remix Compilation Dirty Little Secrets Music To STRIP By... 1999 . In 2001 The Album The Reincarnation Of Luna Appeared On Their Own Sleazebox Records Imprint Distributed By Invisible Records. The Band Released A Companion Piece To The Album Called Golden Pillz The Luna Remixes 2002 As Well As A Live Album Called Elektrik Inferno Live 2002 . Rykodisc Eventually Released My Life With The Thrill Kill Kult's Entire Back Catalog As Well As A New "best-Of" Compilation A Non-Stop Mega Mix/remix Album Featuring Mash-Ups Of Tracks From Different Eras Called Diamonds & Daggerz 2004 And A Long-Unreleased Project Entitled Gay Black And Married 2005 . TTK Released Another Studio Album Entitled The Filthiest Show In Town In 2007. In 2008 The Band's Own SleazeBox Records Joined Forces With Italy's Rustblade Label And Released More TKK Albums The Remix Album Blood Dope Sin Gold 2008 Studio Album Death Threat 2009 And The Compilation Album Sinister Whisperz Wax Trax Years 1987-1991 2010 . In The Summer Of 2010 The Band Once Again Hit The Road With Lords Of Acid With Whom They Toured On The Sextacy Ball Tour In 1995. The 2010 Tour Was Originally Titled Sextacy Ball 2 But Was Changed To The Sextreme Ball For Legal Reasons. In 2012 My Life With The Thrill Kill Kult Announced Their 25 Year Anniversary Tour Covering Over 30 Dates In The USA Tour Featuring Direct Support By Left Spine Down. In 2014 They Released Spooky Tricks On SleazeBox Records. The Band Toured The United States For The Album From May To July Of 2014- Playing A Total Of 29 Dates. The Band Later Played Five Shows In California From September To November In Support Of Their Older Wax Trax! Material 1987-1991 And Some Tracks From Spooky Tricks. On The First Day Of 2015 TTK Released A New Single Entitled La Mere Vipere On Their Official Label Site Sleazebox.Com. A New Album Is Being Prepared For A Release In 2016. Current Members Groovie Mann
Buzz McCoy
Charles Levi
Justin Thyme Aka Justin Bennett Westin Halvorson Previous Members Jacky Blacque
Shawn Christopher
Davey Dasher
Sekret Dame DeZyre
Brett Frana
Dick Fury
Kitty Killdare
Linda LeSabre
Lydia Lunch
Otto Matix
Ruth McArdle
Sinderella Pussy
Arena Rock
Pepper Somerset
Brian St. Clair
Skip Towne
Thomas Thorn
William Tucker Discography 1987 - My Life With The Thrill Kill Kult EP 1988 - I See Good Spirits And I See Bad Spirits LP 1988 - Some Have To Dance... Some Have To Kill EP 1989 - Kooler Than Jesus EP 1989 - Kooler Than Jesus Single 1990 - A Girl Doesn't Get Killed By A Make-Believe Lover... 'Cuz It's Hot Single 1990 - Confessions Of A Knife... LP 1990 - El Infierno Live 1991 - Naïve / The Days Of Swine Roses Split With KMFDM 1991 - Sexplosion! LP 1991 - Sexplosion! Single 1992 - Sex On Wheelz Single 1993 - 13 Above The Night LP 1993 - Blue Buddha Single 1993 - Final Blindness Single 1994 - Hit & Run Holiday Single 1995 - Hit & Run Holiday LP 1997 - A Crime For All Seasons LP 1997 - Sexy Sucker Single 1998 - Some Have To Dance... Some Have To Kill Promo 1999 - Dirty Little Secrets Music To STRIP By... Remix 2001 - The Reincarnation Of Luna LP 2002 - Golden Pillz The Luna Remixes Remix 2002 - Elektrik Inferno Live Live 2004 - My Life With The Thrill Kill Kult Compilation 2004 - The Beast Of TKK Compilation 2004 - Diamonds & Daggerz LP 2005 - Gay Black And Married LP 2005 - My Life Remixed A Remix Tribute To My Life With The Thrill Kill Kult Remix 2007 - The Filthiest Show In Town LP 2007 - Blood Dope Sin Gold Remix 2007 - The Resurrection Of Luna LP 2009 - Death Threat LP 2010 - Sinister Whisperz Wax Trax Years 1987-1991 Compilation 2014 - Spooky Tricks LP 2015 - La Mere Vipere Single

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