Artist description Horror rock that began in 1997 from southwestern VA that is not interested in being the next Misfits or Samhain, but continuing in the great tradition of those two pioneering bands, adding something unique and structurally sound to a sometimes limited genre. Often lyrically gory and disturbing, painting pictures of the macabre with tight and fast precision drumming, fused together bass and guitar punch, with melodic and song oriented hooks - vocals that go from aggressive to crooning in the matter of seconds!

Music Style An amalgamation of hard edged pop punk, doowop, goth, rockabilly and thrash.

Musical Influences The Clash, The Ramones, Iron Maiden, The Cramps, Slayer, Nick Cave, Concrete Blonde, Bauhaus, Face to Face, Bad Religion, Buddy Holly, TSOL, Sisters Of Mercy, Screamin' Jay Hawkins, Anthrax, The Damned, The Templars, Social Distortion, Faith no More, Exploited, AC/DC.

Similar Artists Mister Monster, The Vladimirs, Green Goblyn Project

Artist History After longtime drummer and good friend Dr. Stuart Evilstein left the band in May 2001, (to work with the industrial goth band DesimmiNation) they found Jason Spaugh in Saltville, Va. (who instantly became known to all the Corpse Corps faithful as Billy Bones) to fill the vacant spot. Having recently played shows all over the east coast with heavies like the Dead Kings, Smackin’ Isiah, Mister Monster, the Independents, and Psycho Charger, The newly revamped creeprock trio quickly began work at Real 2 Reel studios in Blacksburg, Va. in the summer of 2001 with the talented knob twiddler Rick Kranjak (who has produced albums for such local Va. Underground acts like This Machine and Simple Like You to name just a couple) as producer on what is their most diverse, musically mature and structurally sound effort to date in the 12 track “Let Flowers Die.” The new slab of music the ghouls have recorded ranges in influences from Nine Pound Hammer, Slayer, Anthrax, Danzig, Bad Religion, Misfits, Samhain, and the Ramones respectively. Guitarist/vokillist TB Monstrosity says “We didn’t wanna make a sequel to Terrifying Tales, cause everyone was labelling us as a Misfits rip off band, not to mention makin’ the same album over and over gets boring. Any band that respects itself and does what it does simply for the love of doing it will tell you that. We made a conscious effort with the new stuff not to pigeonhole ourselves. You’ve got everything from pop,punk, metallic sounding stuff tuned to drop D, to rockabilly, goth and a little bit of doo wop thrown in all on there, so we think that tag will no longer follow us as heavily as it did with our last couple of albums. So if you want the same old themes and a Misfits soudning band or release, I suggest you look elsewhere this time around. There are passages of piano, a Hammond organ and more bleak, darker sounding things on this record too... We’ve definitely proven ourselves as worthy of a listen on our OWN merits with this new album and I hope everyone that liked the last two releases will dig this one just as well if not better and we’ll convert a few more fans along the way and increase our visibility!” “Let Flowers Die” will be unleashed upon unsuspecting fiends Dec. 29th. Look for many more gruesome things to fill the world of these freaks in the coming months. As said before, Blitzkid are intent on being at the forefront of horror rock’s bloodsoaked Future... FROM THE DEPTHS!

Group Members Billy Bones - drums / Argyle Goolsby - Bass & VoKills / T.B. Monstrosity - Lead Guitar & VoKills / Gilby Deviant - Guitar

Instruments Guitar, Bass, & Drums... also some piano and bagpipes.

Albums Trace of A Stranger (2003), Exuming Graves & Making Dates (2003 split 7

Press Reviews http://www.blitzkid.net/press.html

Additional Info http://www.antidoterecords.net

Location Bluefield, VA - USA

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