Wednesday 13 has seemingly never been short of inspiration, but by his own admission, even this horror-obsessed frontman had a hard time summoning the creative spirits during the pandemic. So, he turned to his happy place – his home studio housing a mancave of horror memorabilia – and the result is Horrifier. As implied with songs like Exhume And Devour, the time spent there did nothing but perk up his taste for blood. Most macabre of all, and ranking as one of the band’s heaviest drops to date, is Insides Out, which opens with a bowel-trembling breakdown almost as terrifying as the idea of your innards on show. Wednesday’s snarling pleas of ‘Scream for me, bleed for me’ offer a sludgier side to the normally sleazy mob making them sound more like Crowbar than frequenters of the Sunset Strip.

While it might not come as any surprise that the band have penned another bunch of songs about things that go bump in the night, Horrifier plays to their versatility. It leaps from horrorpunk sleaze – check out the W.A.S.P.-y Halfway To The Grave – to Southern tones on the whirring, Pantera-esque Hell Is Coming. You’re So Hideous bundles all of the band’s energy into a catchy ode to Medusa, while Good Day To Be A Bad Guy is a throwback to the Fang Bang days.

As usual, Horrifier comes with a few morsels for the horror movie buff: the John Carpenter-inspired Return To Haddonfield – a nod to the movie Halloween – and industrial scarefest Christine: Fury In The Night, stripped from Stephen King’s spooky tale. Horrifier is as thrilling as any of Wednesday’s work to date. Source Holly Wright | Metal Hammer 

Looking forward to their February 2024 Australian Tour WEDNESDAY 13 and his current band – which features former Murderdolls alumni Roman Surman and Jack Tankersley along with Troy Doebbler on bass and Mike Dupke on drums  – 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 pants 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.

The 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 that much more thrilling.

For the first time in well over a decade, Murderdolls’ frontman and songwriter, Wednesday 13, will resurrect his songs from the twisted depths of their dual album discography and unleash an unforgettable set when they descend on Australia, breathing fire into the raucous anthems that have defined an entire subculture.

“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, We will be performing tracks from both MURDERDOLLS albums on this upcoming tour and celebrating the legacy of the band.” – Wednesday 13

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