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Cockfight Club

Absinthe-Fueled Musical Misanthropy

About Me


Tupelo, Mississippi: The quaint Southern town that has given birth over the years to Elvis Presley, the American Family Association, and more recently, Cockfight Club. Clearly, Tupelo will be the site of the final battle between Good and Evil in the coming apocalypse. And Cockfight Club is ready...

Cockfight Club is the twisted brainchild of Kenneth Niles Calloway: musician, Mac enthusiast, sci-fi & horror movie buff, and all-around loose cannon. After spending years honing his programming and sequencing skills on various techno projects, sometime in 2003 Ken decided it was time to rock and dusted off his trusty Gibson Flying V. Cockfight Club was born. Drawing from a vast pool of musical influences including industrial rock, punk, metal, techno, electro, new-wave, 80s synth-pop, and all points in between, Ken descended into Area 52, his newly-built basement studio, and spent the next two years cooking up a witches brew of absinthe-fueled musical misanthropy. The first Cockfight Club album, über güber, was finally released in 2005 on Weapons-Grade Records, and just in time for Halloween! There was much rejoicing. Their 2007 release, Acockalypse Now, finds the band expanding upon the themes and sounds of the first album and veering into a new, beautifully terrifying musical territory.

Like Elvis, Cockfight Club's mission is to start a rock and roll revolution, to gyrate their pelvises in front of as many women as possible, and to strike a staggering blow below the Bible Belt. Stay tuned.












My Interests

Music:

Member Since: 11/13/2005
Band Website: cockfightclub.net
Band Members: Kenneth Niles Calloway:
Vocals, Guitars, Keyboards, Programming

Graceless Lacy Babcock:
Keyboards, Bass, Backing Vocals

Elusive:
Percussion, Keyboards

EMO SLAYER:
Guitars

Influences:

Nine Inch Nails, Gary Numan, David Bowie, Ministry, Marilyn Manson, Skinny Puppy, Type O Negative, Thrill Kill Kult, Oingo Boingo, Bauhaus, Revolting Cocks, Black Sabbath, Pigface, Devo, Fischerspooner, Stabbing Westward, Concrete Blonde, Joy Division, Ramones, B-52s, Ladytron, KMFDM, Genitorturers, Front Line Assembly, Helios Creed, Kraftwerk, Peter Murphy, Alice Cooper, Mötley Crüe (first two albums only, please), Depeche Mode, Mankind Is Obsolete, Peaches, Prick, Venom, White/Rob Zombie, Android Lust, New Order, The Cramps, AC/DC, Killing Joke, Lords of Acid, Angelspit, Danzig, Elvis, Front 242, Blue Öyster Cult, any band with röck döts


Sounds Like:


Record Label: Corkscrew Music Co.
Type of Label: Indie

My Blog

Interview with Wreckhouse Magazine

Our friends at Wreckhouse Magazine have just published a new interview with Ken! Click here to check it out, or copy and paste the url below into your browser. And don’t forget to come hang ou...
Posted by Cockfight Club on Fri, 14 Mar 2008 04:48:00 PST

Pics of us featured @ The Absinthe Review Network

Our good friends at The Absinthe Review Network have just posted a bunch of our absinthe-related pics on their main website’s gallery, and some of them are pretty funny! Go check ’em out!...
Posted by Cockfight Club on Thu, 13 Mar 2008 08:22:00 PST

Interview with Ken on Pop-Rock Candy Mountain

You can read what Ken has to say about Cockfight Club's record deal, our next album, and the upcoming tour at the Pop-Rock Candy Mountain website!http://poprockcandymountain.com/?p=182...
Posted by Cockfight Club on Fri, 22 Feb 2008 06:36:00 PST

NEO-ZINE review of Acockalypse Now!

Read Neo-Zine's review of Acockalypse Now here! Cockfight Club @ myspace...
Posted by Cockfight Club on Tue, 18 Dec 2007 02:03:00 PST

SIGNED WITH CORKSCREW MUSIC, TOUR IN 2008!

Yes, all those rumors are true; we just haven't wanted to say too much about it until all the I's were dotted and T's were crossed. We have just signed a record deal with Corkscrew Music Co., home of...
Posted by Cockfight Club on Fri, 14 Dec 2007 10:27:00 PST

No more SNOCAP store...

Due to the recent problems between CD Baby and SNOCAP which you can read about here, our SNOCAP mp3 download store is no longer functional. We could deal with SNOCAP directly, but frankly, considerin...
Posted by Cockfight Club on Wed, 31 Oct 2007 08:36:00 PST

Review of October 6th show in Sheffield, AL

The Northeast Mississippi Daily Journal's Joshua Blake was kind enough to come out to our October 6th show at Old Town Tavern in Sheffield, Alabama with Punchthroat this weekend, and he wrote this awe...
Posted by Cockfight Club on Mon, 08 Oct 2007 10:27:00 PST

BLACK TAPE MEDIA review of Acockalypse Now!

Read the BLACK TAPE MEDIA review of Acockalypse Now! Just click the banner below! Cockfight Club @ myspaceAcockalypse Now @ iTunes Music Storeüber güber @ iTunes Music StoreIf you want to be...
Posted by Cockfight Club on Tue, 18 Sep 2007 12:30:00 PST

First German review of Acockalypse Now is now online!

Check out the first German review of our latest CD, Acockalypse Now, written by our good friend DJ Nemo! Click here to read it. Cockfight Club @ myspaceAcockalypse Now @ iTunes Music Storeüb...
Posted by Cockfight Club on Wed, 05 Sep 2007 11:11:00 PST

Happy Birthday H.P. Lovecraft!

In honor of H.P. Lovecraft's birthday, we have uploaded Children of Dagon from our latest cd release, Acockalypse Now. Of course you can still find our 2005 song H.P. Lovecraft on our player as well,...
Posted by Cockfight Club on Mon, 20 Aug 2007 10:51:00 PST