My Life With the Thrill Kill Kult

MY LIFE WITH THE THRILL KILL KULT

Hailing from Chicago’s renowned Wax Trax! Records stable of recording artists, MY LIFE WITH THETHRILL KILL KULT have been conjuring up sonic tales of sex, blasphemy and kitschy horror since 1987.Along with label mates such as Front 242 and Ministry, TKK (as often abbreviated), helped develop the
industrial music genre, yet have consistently evolved their sound, creating one of the most diverserepertoires in modern day music. They can be described as electronic rock, heavily influenced by bothdisco and punk, with the distinctive use of spoken-word samples lifted from B-movies laced throughouttheir songs. The band has released 14 studio albums, a slew of compilations and singles, and hasappeared on a variety of soundtracks.

Artist Franke Nardiello and musician Marston Daley, two Chicago neighbors who enjoyed late nightbinges watching trashy exploitation films, wanted to make their own flick to be called “My Life With TheThrill Kill Kult”. While the movie itself never came to fruition, they also wrote a few songs to be theaccompanying soundtrack. Both worked at Wax Trax! Records, and when the label heard the music, theywere intrigued. Taking the film title as the name for the project, the duo released a 3-song EP, and thefans overwhelmingly wanted more.

Dubbing themselves Groovie Mann (Nardiello) and Buzz McCoy (Daley), they began to focus on theband full time, creating an occult-biker meets disco-goth look, which included a bevy of voluptuous back-up singers/dancers known as the BOMB GANG GIRLZ. They released their first album I See Good SpiritsAnd I See Bad Spirits in 1988 followed up by the hard-hitting dance floor classics “Kooler Than Jesus”and “A Girl Doesn’t Get Killed By A Make-Believe Lover ‘Cuz It’s Hot”, which included no-wave chanteuseLydia Lunch on vocals. The New York Times wrote, “Sex, blasphemy, big beats and go-go dancing;they’re all in a day’s work for My Life With The Thrill Kill Kult”. This attracted the attention of indie fans andthe ire of religious groups in practically equal measure. By the time TKK released their second album,Confessions Of A Knife (1990), they were far and away one of the biggest selling acts on the label.

In 1991, TKK embarked on the decadent Sexplosion tour, titled after their third LP. Alternative Pressreviewed the show as “Sin-sational!”, while Melody Maker described the performance as “A cabaret fromHell”. The tour was a success and the album sold so well that they signed a deal with Interscope Records
shortly afterwards, and the single “Sex On Wheelz” became a sizeable radio hit.

Hollywood also embraced the group, recognizing the unique cinematic aspect to their sound. MLWTTKK music has been featured in a wide range of motion pictures, cable and network shows, including animator Ralph Bakshi’s ‘Cool World”, director Paul Verhoven’s saucy “Showgirls”, Gregg
Araki’s “Nowhere”, the HBO series “Californication”, and the 1994 cult film classic “The Crow”, where theband make a cameo appearance performing their song “After The Flesh”.

Groovie and Buzz continue to unleash new music via their own SleazeBox Records label
(sleazebox.com), and still touring extensively with a rotating cast of musicians, dancers and dubiouscharacters, all the while making a reputation for themselves as one of the most notorious andcontroversial cult bands of their generation.

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