Member Since: 8/19/2005
Band Website: sonofwilliam.com
Band Members: spence harrison with a rotating cast of live performers
Influences: We love putting on sick shows, complete with b-movie horror skits, choreographed dancing, fire juggling and gallons of blood, to entertain minds nearly as deranged as ours...
...but this town -REALLY- needed a place for bands to get their set tight. Son of William has not done any live shows lately because we have been busy turning an old tobacco factory into a world-class music rehearsal center in St Louis. Check it out!
Before Utopia, we opened Berzerker Studios,
an arts center for music rehearsal, recording and shows (flash animation courtesty of Jeff Carline, RIP). Berzerker probably became best-known for the crazy shows held in our private venue, the Zoo Room (pictured below), including several Son of William events...like 'Night of the Ripper' when Jack the Ripper murders were reenacted onstage with Hydeware Theatre as we played, and the 'Pit & the Pendulum' show, when we turned the whole venue into a 12th-century torture chamber complete with period torture devices and a waxwork Inquisitioner. Ahh, good times!
Before starting the studios in St. Louis, we lived in London and had a couple of live lineups gigging around at places like the Underworld in Camden and Manchester. Ours shows were not nearly as elaborate in those days, but it was an exciting time to be involved in the European goth scene. We met some great people, contributed to skads of compilations and even put out our own little zine called SOWthistle, to promote underground music. This was back in the early to mid-nineties, before the internet changed how things were done. You can hear more Son of William, read or write a review, and buy the Doomsday album at CDbaby today.
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Record Label: www.berzerkerrecords.com
Type of Label: Indie