Artist description Not creativity. Not ingenuity. Efficiency." The Detholz! sound is precise, razor-sharp and tightly constructed to appease even the most discerning of tastes. Death-defying chord changes, tireless borrowing from multiple genres, and elements of surprise have been benchmarks of Detholz! music since its inception. Sometimes light and fruity, sometimes full-bodied and dark, other times tangy, prickly-- even irritating-- the music of The Detholz! is a lot like TV in the sheer breadth of experiences it has to offer.

Music Style New Wave

Musical Influences Talking Heads, Residents, Devo, Mr. Bungle, Igor Stravinsky

Similar Artists Queens of the Stone Age, Mr. Bungle, Talking Heads, Devo, Residents

Artist History Formed in 1996 at a fundamentalist Christian university in suburban Chicago, The Detholz! worked initially as flustered reactionaries. Comprised of 3 music students, a philosophy major and 2 computer programmers, The Detholz! harnessed their inherent nerdiness with deep-seated frustration in their suffocating environment to construct a musical Frankenstein. Drawing from a mutual love of avant-garde music, exploitation films, the Trinity Broadcasting Network and technology, The Detholz! have transmogrified their nerdy rock shows into multimedia motivational seminars, utilizing loud music, mystical mummery and mind-control marketing to move the masses.

Group Members Mister M, Mister D, Mister J, Mister C, Mister S and Mister B.

Instruments Scalpels, sutures & suction

Albums Who Are The Detholz? (2002)

Press Reviews "Defiantly nerdy and spazzy." -The Onion AV Club * "Lush and rockin'" -the Chicago Reader * "An exercise in quirky precision." - Static Multimedia * "Like music for a beach party, as if a spaceship happened to land on the surf." - Illinois Entertainer

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Location Chicago, IL - USA

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