Artist description SHIVERHEAD: scary,sexy,startling,smart,shiny,stupid,spiteful,sinful,snarling,sugarcoated,"sacrilicious",smarmy,sublime,seething,snotty,sellout,scam!

Music Style glamelectro, industrial, vocal, club, techno, breakbeat

Musical Influences influenced by:early industrial (e.g. Einsturzende Neubauten), club sounds (speed garage, big beat, breakbeat, acid house), break dance electro, avant garde "art" music, pop, punk, ska, old skool hip hop, 80's new wave, and the sheer crushing terror/ennui of everyday reality

Similar Artists MBM,SHEEP ON DRUGS, FATBOY SLIM, DIE WARZAU, CAB VOLTAIRE,PRODIGY,TKK...also: hmm...ALTERNATIVE PRESS called SHIVERHEAD a "CRYSTAL METHOD soundalike" but also put out a NIN-inspired cd featuring him

Artist History Eccentric glam/electro artist, SHIVERHEAD, has done years of hard time on the electronic music underground. He established a strong cult following in the early industrial scene with his tracks on dedicated cybercore labels like 21st CIRCUITRY, ZOTH OMMOG, INDUSTRIAL NATION (the first CD sampler representing the state of underground industrial from this internationally read magazine, the scene’s Industrial Bible in the nineties), CONVERGENCE,and his own DARKHOUSE RECORDINGS. He opened for well known industrial bands of the time like PIGFACE and ELECTRIC HELLFIRE CLUB, and even appeared on MTV with his own twisted industrial/techno video version of AC-DC’s “Highway To Hell”. Through the late nineties, he refined his electronic sound without diluting any of his lyrical trademarks--obsessive, sardonic, spiteful, regretful, bitterly humorous--a quick internet search will find not only SHIVERHEAD fan sites, but quotations of his lyrics on more than one website dedicated to collecting Dark Poetry. He was named one of MUSICIAN MAGAZINE’s 12 Best Unsigned Bands for 1998 (as voted on by MOBY, ANI DIFRANCO, and other Famous Rock Stars like ART ALEXAKIS of EVERCLEAR ) and immediately landed a track on ASTRALWERKS, possibly the largest electronic music label in the world, with artists like THE CHEMICAL BROTHERS, FATBOY SLIM, and BASEMENT JAXX as his labelmates. Now, with favorable reviews in ROLLING STONE, MIXER MAGAZINE, and on AMAZON.COM (The track is available on the ASTRALWERKS compilation, “Unknownwerks,” at AMAZON.COM), you can hear his music everywhere...on a movie soundtrack (BELLYFRUIT, available now at HOLLYWOOD VIDEO stores), as background on MTV specials (He was used for MTV's BioRhythm), ...and on his new EP: “SOMEDAY SOON YOU’LL ALL BE SORRY”.

Group Members SHIVERHEAD is a solo artist in the studio, with a host of supporting players onstage. Most currently: ALISON (co-vocals), PHIL (dancer/percussionist), DJNR8 (DJ), SUPERMODEL HEATHERMARIE (keyboards/triggers/dancer), APRIL & JENNY (the Discovixens!)

Instruments yours.

Albums "Someday Soon You'll All Be Sorry" (available at Amazon.com), "Burn", "Pornocopia", + also has tracks on comps from VIRGIN RECORDS/ASTRALWERKS, 21st CIRCUITRY, and CONVERSION MEDIA, and a rare ZOTH OMMOG / ALTERNATIVE PRESS comp

Press Reviews ROLLING STONE, (SEPT,1999): [One of] the States’ block-rockinest beat magicians...SQUONKY BRICOLAGE! [note from SHIV: they wrote it...I don't know what it means, but, hey! It's ROLLING STONE, man!) -----MIXER MAGAZINE: Shiverhead goes apeshit with his 303 tweaks to make his manic breakbeat bug-out "Ready 2Rock" a stand out... [a] could be classic. -----INDUSTRIAL NATION MAGAZINE #7: What makes SHIVERHEAD respectable is the fact that, unlike most industrial dread mongers...he has a sense of humor. Sure, he screams about ripping your face off and tells God to bite him, but his periodic musical digressions show he knows how to have fun, too. For all his heretical hyperbole, he realizes it's just a song...and his ability to weave together a garage sale's-worth of samples...into a seamless production is both admirable and entertaining...assuming he avoids being struck down by a bolt of divine lightning... -----ASTRALWERKS.COM: Shiverhead comes to Astralwerks fresh from being named one of Musician Magazine's "Best Unsigned Bands of 1998"To beat out thousands of other bands vying for that honor, Shiverhead had to convince a panel of celebrity artist judges, including electronic pop star Moby (and also including Everclear's Art Alexakis, punk rock indie label owner/superstar Ani Difranco, and Aerosmith's(??) Joe Perry!How could a poor kid with nothing but spiked blue hair and a $700 ten year old, lo-fi sampling keyboard hope to compete with other artists who had real studios, real computers, and real live band members?Maybe - just maybe, those celebrity songwriters recognized Shiverhead for what he is: one of those rare electronic musicians who believes strongly in good, old-fashioned pop song structures, catchy hooks, and engaging, memorable vocals."Ready 2 Rock" may be Shiverhead's most lyrically minimal song to date, but that's his voice shouting on that track, not just some sampled stranger.Informed by "Big Beat'" "Speed Garage," "Electro," "House'" and other dance club sounds without being limited by them, Shiverhead puts a much needed human face on the otherwise anonymous electronic groove and cranks up the drama level to bring real emotional impact to the stage.Shiverhead may be strictly a solo artist in the studio, but his live shows are another experience entirely. Even large stages can sometimes feel confining when you have two keyboards (one male, one gorgeous female) three dancers (two discovixens and one sinewy, silver painted bald guy), a DJ, a six-foot plus amazon woman howling confrontational co-vocals through a megaphone, and two industrial percussionists slamming on metal and machines backing you up. And that's not to mention the video screens and manifesto-flashing slide screens flanking the sides of the stage!

Location Milwaukee, WI - USA

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