Deadmans Wake

Deadmans Wake: Killing the Jonas Brothers with Chicago’s Hottest Horror Filled Band. By Brian Kirst

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Melodic and loud, with an eviscerating stage presence and horror filled moves, Deadmans Wake is one of Illinois’ rising bands. While currently screaming up the recorded airwaves (Their CD “It Comes To This” will drop in Winter 2009) and massacring concert halls (including an upcoming show at Mojoe’s in Orland Park, IL on 11/18/2009), the friendly and inventive members of Deadmans Wake recently took a few moments to bloodily round robin some viscous questions for Horror Society.

Brian: So, folks, who were your first performing influences – Rob Halford’s shredding high notes like Jason with an sharpened axe – Art Hindle proclaiming JP’s a good guy – a tuba playing, Mafia moll of an aunt?

Kryssie: The first person I remember ever seeing on television singing was Axl Rose. It wasn’t him that really got me going though, it was singing along with Queen because Freddie Mercury was beyond amazingly talented.
Josh: Please say something about his porn-stache…
Kryssie: His porn-stache inspired the mustache tattoo on my left index finger. And, ironically, Axl’s voice is much like Jason cutting someone with a machete… especially now!

Brian: Ouch!! If Deadmans Wake could be compared to one movie – what would it be?

JP: Airheads!
Josh: The Blues Brothers!
Kryssie: This is Spinal Tap!
Troll: Police Academy 4: Citizens on Patrol.
ALL: You win.

Brian: Oh — I was kind of hoping Summer School. Oh, well… – Deadmans Wake or the Jonas Brothers – who would win in the Zombie Apocalypse and why?

JP: DMW, obviously, because Kryssie has way bigger balls than any of the Jonas Brothers.
Kryssie: We could just use them as zombie bait… harvest them for parts.
Josh: I’d personally just shoot them all whether or not they were zombies… it’d be a good excuse.
JP: I’ve already got a few guns!
Troll: So do I!

Brian: Max Brooks is beaming proudly now! — What inspires a Deadmans Wake song? Cinema, world news headlines, personal experience —?

Josh: BEER!
JP: Anything and everything. Different styles of music, video games…
Kryssie… finding lyrics I wrote when I was 12 and making them decent and relevant. And, truth be told, “Back to Blood” is about turning into a zombie… fun fact. Listen closely to the lyrics… it’s in there.
Troll: Gameboy chip-tunes…

Brian: Mariah Carey sing-alongs! (Oh, that’s my mother’s family! Sorry.) – If you could add a Deadmans Wake song to a scene from one of your favorite films – what would that song and film scene be?

Kryssie: “Back to Blood” would make a decent backdrop to the pool-cue scene in the Winchester in “Shaun of the Dead.”
Josh: “Or ‘Why Didn’t You Say So?'”
Kryssie: Ha! That song’s so dirty! Brilliant.
JP: I’d like to see ANY of our songs as a backdrop to the lawnmower scene in “Dead Alive,” especially “Save Me.”
Kryssie: Oooh, poetic.

Brian: Cool! But, alas, “It comes to this” – the final question! — Any words of advice (IE: Don’t chug school glue as a vocal warm up technique) or future projects that you’d like to tell us about? And thanks – this has been better than huffing Debbie Harry’s shoes in a nightclub any day of the week!

Troll: If you’re asking advice from me, there’s already something wrong with you.
JP: Don’t fuck up…?
Kryssie: “Believe in your dreams,” but be ready to wait tables until they come true. And “A Nightmare on Elm Street” rules. Tell your friends.
JP: And “Jaws” is the best movie ever. So there. – Our debut full-length album, “It Comes To This”, will be dropping this winter. We’re thinking December or January. We’re also opening for In This Moment at Mojoe’s in Orland Park on Nov 18th. It’s all ages, $13 in advance and we need people to buy tickets so the promoter won’t break our valuable fingers…Thanks again for the coverage!