WEDNESDAY 13

WEDNESDAY 13 and his current band – which features former MURDERDOLLS alumni Roman Surman and Jack Tankersley – will be performing a full set of MURDERDOLLS songs, taken from the band’s celebrated 2002 debut album Beyond The Valley Of The Murderdolls and their triumphant 2010 return Women And Children Last, which won them the Revolver Golden Gods Comeback of the Year award.

Amid a 2002 musical landscape full of baggy pants, backwards caps and tracksuit bottoms, rose a metallic glam punk band that defied the prevailing trends and brought back hard and fast rock ’n’ roll. Murderdolls dug up the corpse of rock, defiled it, and injected pure, unadulterated undead life back into it. And it was glorious.

Beyond the Valley of the Murderdolls and its successor Women and Children Last were like nothing else – fast and dirty, raw and macabre. Drawing lyrical inspiration from classic horror, each track is full of tongue-in-cheek horror done to perfection. Led by horror-punk icon Wednesday 13 and the late, great Joey Jordison, Murderdolls slithered their way to the top of the horrendous heights of rock, amassing a colossal cult following along the way.

With sinister, sneering vocals, huge hooks, gang vocal choruses, pounding rhythms and some of the best riffs ever penned, the Murderdolls wrote songs for arenas and played them in theatres – making their adrenaline-fuelled odes to darkness all the more thrilling.

“After 21 years since its release, and the recent sad and premature passing of Joey, it only feels right to go out and celebrate these songs. We made two amazing albums that I was very proud of, and unfortunately much of the world didn’t get a chance to hear the songs live. In 2018, we all got together at Joey’s house and discussed plans and possibilities for the future, but we both had other immediate plans.

After an amazing run through the US performing these songs, we will now take the tour where the band began – in the UK and Europe this October and November. We will be performing tracks from both MURDERDOLLS albums on this upcoming tour and celebrating the legacy of the band.”