Artist: My Life With The Thrill Kill Kult Genre(s):
Dance
Rock
Rock: Pop-Rock
Alternative
Discography:
Gay, Black and Married Year: 2005
Tracks: 11
Golden Pillz: The Luna Remixes Year: 2002
Tracks: 14
Sexplosion! Year: 1999
Tracks: 8
13 Above the Night Year: 1999
Tracks: 15
Crime For All Seasons Year: 1997
Tracks: 10
Confessions Of A Knife Year: 1990
Tracks: 11
Kooler Than Jesus Year: 1989
Tracks: 7
I See Good Spirits I See Bad Spirits Year: 1988
Tracks: 10
Although White Zombie received about of the recognition for commixture tales of sexual practice, Satan, and gore with a rock/dance beat (although true with more of a heavy metal edge), Chicago's My Life With the Thrill Kill Kult specialised in standardised district for just as long. Originally formed in 1987 by Buzz McCoy (wHO had latterly relocated from Boston) and Groovie Mann, the duo sought to make a worthy musical accompaniment that could be used as a soundtrack to rubbishy B-movies. The duo's initial fancy was to make a motion picture (in the style of Russ Meyer and John Waters) to be named "My Life with the Thrill Kill Kult." The flick never got sour the run aground, but McCoy and Mann used the aborted movie's deed of conveyance for the name of their just-formed mathematical group, as their sinful stage show was best described as "sensory overload" (featuring a revolving door of weird characters, props, and intense visuals). Signing on with Chicago's renowned industrial dancing label Wax Trax!, the Thrill Kill Kult issued several releases between 1989 and 1991: a self-titled EP, plus the full-lengths
I See Good Spirits and I See Bad Spirits,
Kooler Than Jesus,
Confessions of a Knife, and
Sexplosion! By this time, the group had attracted the attention of Interscope Records, which sign-language up the Thrill Kill Kult and reissued
Sexplosion!, which had spawned peradventure the group's best-known song, "Sex on Wheelz" (the track would as well be featured in music director Ralph Bakshi's animated picture
Cool World). The group only issued one more release for Interscope, 1994's
13 Above the Night, earlier switch to the Rykodisc tag and issue such farther releases as 1995's
Attain & Run Holiday (a concept album of sorts, which told the tarradiddle of a "rebellious hellcat," Krystal Starlust, and her "fatal attraction" to a vagrant named Apollo) and 1997's
Crime for All Seasons.
The Thrill Kill Kult failed to topic any new studio recordings from 1998 through 2000, spell a collection of 18 remixes,
Dirty Little Secrets, saw the light of day in 1999. But, by 2001, the band had reappeared once more, issuance 2001's
The Reincarnation of Luna and 2002's
Golden Pillz: The Luna Remixes for so far another new record judge, Invisible. In 2004 the Ryko tag acquired most of Wax Trax!'s releases, including early albums from the Kult. That same year they reissued the band's first base trey albums and released a new compilation,
The Best of TKK, along with a set of remixes named
Diamonds & Daggerz. An album dedicated to the disco earned run average that had sat on the shelves for a decade last saw the light of day in 2005 when
Festal, Black & Married hit the shelves. Two long time subsequently the lounge-styled
Filthiest Show in Town appeared.
In addition to their own releases, My Life with the Thrill Kill Kult has contributed tracks to respective picture soundtracks, including Paul Verhoeven's
Showgirls, Greg Araki's
Nowhere, and the reach jerk
The Crow (in the latter of which the group made a cameo visual aspect); and over the days, has toured with such renowned (and similarly styled) bands as Siouxie and the Banshees, Lords of Acid, EMF, and Marilyn Manson.
