Remember the days when a rock show was an event? Remember counting down the days until it was time? Well, its time.
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WHAT'S YOUR PLEASURE? VIDEO HERE!"Our imaginations are, I think, stimulated very often by things that are
forbidden, or taboo, and I think we should own up to that more often."
(Clive Barker)
In a decade overrun by cookie-cutter pop divas, American Idol worship and prefab punk revival, VOODOO SCREW MACHINE is a restorative juggernaut of hard rock spectacle. Led by bloodthirsty evildoer Thermos X. Pimpington, this Boston-based band is an outlandish amalgam of metal guitar wizardry, accessibly meaty songs, hilarious whimsy and maniacal theatrics. The live show (which has been banned in at least two Boston-area rock clubs) is a fabulously freaky and often funny piece of theatrical rock, with deviant delights such as a coat made from dead babies, limbless
mannequins, diabolical nurses and a 7-foot syringe..SEE VOODOO SCREW MACHINE LIVE PERFORMANCE VIDEO HERE!In October 2005 VOODOO SCREW MACHINE officially released their debut CD, A Kiss Before Drowning. Eleven tracks that hearken back to the days when the guitar solo reigned supreme and Satan still had infernal dealings with rock musicians. For all the unbridled theatrics of their live show, the VOODOO SCREW MACHINE material does not fall short either in execution (the band is just fantastic) or in theme. A relentless rhythm courtesy of bassist T. Balls and drummer Rupert Loudbottom forms the ideal backdrop for Pimpington's accomplished vocal dynamics. No cookie-monster shredding here, just good strong singing. Perhaps the band's secret weapon, though, is Stony Curtis, a classically trained musician whose deft and raging guitar stylings would make Randy Rhoads weep with joy.
Thematically, A Kiss Before Drowning is a surprisingly unified exploration of drug use, greed, sexual experimentation and that cerebral gloaming between sanity and madness.
Debut CD "A Kiss Before Drowning"
Available HERE"What's Your Pleasure?" borrows its title from the final scene of Clive Barker's
Hellraiser, and the song is essentially Pimpington's monument to the fearless depravity of that film and its creator. It's a hard rocker wrought with bleak themes of nuclear holocaust and the cold war. Horror writers like Barker get our attention by tapping into a dark place and asking us to suspend disbelief while they have their way with our imagination. Imagination, where all the scary monsters live. And we love every offensive minute of it. This kind of thrill seeking is a big part of the VOODOO SCREW MACHINE rock aesthetic.
In this way they win appreciation even from those who despise the genre.Voodoo Screw Machine's Debut CD "A Kiss Before Drowning" is now available! - Order your copy through the website today!If any of the information presented here in insufficient or you need further assistance, please point your browser to the
Voodoo Screw Machine Electronic Press Kit or simply contact the band through the official site.
