{"id":2123,"date":"2015-03-04T15:52:20","date_gmt":"2015-03-04T21:52:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/beintheloopchicago.com\/?p=2123"},"modified":"2015-06-10T15:03:25","modified_gmt":"2015-06-10T20:03:25","slug":"chicago-artist-my-life-with-the-thrill-kill-kult","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/beintheloopchicago.com\/?p=2123","title":{"rendered":"Chicago Artist : My Life With The Thrill Kill Kult"},"content":{"rendered":"

My Life with the Thrill Kill Kult<\/b>\u00a0(often shortened to\u00a0Thrill Kill Kult<\/b>\u00a0or\u00a0TKK<\/b>) is an American electronic\u00a0industrial rock<\/a>band originally based in Chicago, Illinois.<\/p>\n

Frankie Nardiello (Groovie Mann<\/a>), and Marston Daley (Buzz McCoy<\/a>) met in the Spring of 1987 while touring together with the band\u00a0Ministry<\/a>. Soon after, Nardiello and Daley began to conceive an\u00a0art film<\/a>\u00a0to be called\u00a0My Life with the Thrill Kill Kult<\/i>\u00a0\u2013 a headline taken from a British tabloid Nardiello had noted a few years prior when he lived in London. The film was never completed, but the music they had recorded for its soundtrack appealed to\u00a0Wax Trax! Records<\/a>, who released the completed songs as a three-track\u00a0EP<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Dubbing themselves Groovie Mann (Nardiello) and Buzz McCoy (Daley), they launched\u00a0My Life With the Thrill Kill Kult<\/i>. When the first EP sold well, a full-length album,\u00a0I See Good Spirits and I See Bad Spirits<\/a><\/i>, followed in 1988. Both attracted attention from\u00a0college radio<\/a>\u00a0stations and dancefloors, as well as religious groups who balked at the overtlyoccult<\/a>\u00a0imagery in both the music and the artwork of the releases. The group continued to stoke controversy with each subsequent release, which included a remix EP entitled\u00a0Nervous Xians<\/i>, and they became even more popular with release of the\u00a012-inch single<\/a>\u00a0“Kooler Than Jesus”.<\/p>\n

Thrill Kill Kult’s second album,\u00a0Confessions of a Knife…<\/i>, became one of the best-selling releases on Wax Trax!, and continued to goad parental groups with song titles like “A Daisy Chain 4 Satan” and “Rivers of Blood, Years of Darkness”.<\/p>\n

Along with labelmates\u00a0Ministry<\/a>,\u00a0KMFDM<\/a>, and\u00a0Front 242<\/a>, Thrill Kill Kult helped develop the\u00a0industrial music<\/a>\u00a0genre, but they themselves continued to evolve, creating a sound that was not easily identified or categorized. It was electronic club music with heavy beats, reminiscent of both\u00a0disco<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0funk<\/a>, yet amplified to a sometimes abrasive level. Thrill Kill Kult reflected a shift where dance records could be ominous and aggressive, and they laced their music with riffs and references that would seem more at home in a\u00a0heavy metal<\/a>\u00a0group. One of their most distinctive characteristics is their use of\u00a0spoken-word<\/a>\u00a0samples<\/a>\u00a0lifted from\u00a0B-movies<\/a>\u00a0and other sources.<\/p>\n

At the onset of their career, the band’s music was known as having a “satanic<\/a>” theme, although used in a satirical sense. The occult element of the band has moved to the background in recent years, as they have focused more on their sleazy disco sound although still laden with satire. The 1991 album\u00a0Sexplosion!<\/i>marked TKK’s leap toward more\u00a0psychedelic<\/a>\u00a0house<\/a>\u00a0beats and their later grind house\u00a0lounge<\/a>\u00a0sound. Later albums expanded on these sounds and explored new directions as well, such as the 1995\u00a0Interscope<\/a>\u00a0release\u00a0Hit & Run Holiday<\/i>, which combined the Kult’s signature electronic sound with a\u00a0psychedelic<\/a>\u00a0surf rock<\/a>\/go-go<\/a>theme reminiscent of 60s\u00a0garage rock<\/a>\u00a0and more modern acts like\u00a0The B-52’s<\/a>.<\/p>\n

(source wikipedia)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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