WE WILL BE INTERVIEWING MY LIFE WITH THE THRILL KILL KULT NEXT WEEK, LEAVE YOUR QUESTIONS FOR THE BAND IN THE COMMENTS SECTION BELOW.

I have a large soft, squishy, dark spot on my heart for the world's only "cinematic-electro-glam-disco-industrial-lounge-horror-porn" rock band and theatrical troupe: My Life With the Thrill Kill Kult, now celebrating 15 long years of decadence, profuse beats and a firm grasp of the profundity of cultural detritus.

Their Ugly Spirits Tour with Cherrie Blue and VooDou is streaking across the land as we speak, wrapping up in the band's ancestral home of Chicago (which will never be the same without WaxTrax) at the end of November. If you're in SoCal, there's nothing like Thrill Kill on Halloween - they'll be oozing all over the Henry Fonda Theater in LA October 31.

Thrill Kill also has its own label now, SleazeBox Records, affiliated with Martin Atkins' Underground, Inc, and a new live CD, their first ever, called Elektrik Inferno. The new disc is a ripping collection of favorites spanning their entire career. The sound quality is crisp and clean, the bass/beats propulsive and infectious, the samples clear and well integrated

A faithful rendition of the classic "Kooler Than Jesus" sets the mood perfectly. Other highlights include the unguent "Disko FleshPot," a discofied "Swine and Roses" with rhythm guitar worthy of Chic, "LeatherSex" is more disco destruction propelled by piano, and "...Cuz It's Hot" comes close to the menace of the original. The only real disappointment is a techno version of "Sex On Wheelz" denatured of its monster guitar riff. In fact industrial/rock guitar is notably missing from the disc in general, but that caveat aside, Elektrik Inferno is an excellent intro to a 15-year orgy.

Dawn Olsen and I interviewed band leader/producer Buzz McCoy and wrote a career overview a few years ago.

A flaming disco ball of unknown origin slammed into a drive-in theater showing
Christian Zombie Vampire, fusing unspeakable screen characters, molten squares of glass, guzzling revelers, back seat gropers and the shrieking theater sound system into an alloy known as My Life With The Thrill Kill Kult.

Buzz McCoy (aka Marston Daley) and Groovie Mann (aka Frank Nardiello) are the creative forces behind this bizarre union of disco/industrial music, sleazy omni-sexuality, and B-movie horror. Inadvertently created and self produced, Thrill Kill have released a slew of dance club hits since 1988 with such expressive titles as "Kooler Than Jesus," "Devil Bunnies," "The Days of Swine and Roses," "Cuz It's Hot," "Waiting For Mommy," "The International Sin Set," "Leathersex," "Sex on Wheels," "Blue Buddha," "Glamour Is a Rocky Road" and greatest of all, "A Daisy Chain 4 Satan." Their back-to-back albums Confessions of a Knife and Sexplosion! stand with the best that either the disco or industrial genres have produced.