German Horror Punks in England from next week
Following the release of their critically acclaimed sixth album ‘Fear Itself’ on SPV Records in June, Europe’s Number One Horror Punk Rock band The Other are set to bring their monsterously entertaining live show to the UK in November, for a six date headline tour. The creep show comes to the following venues;
09.11.15 Manchester – Tiger Lounge
10.11.15 Leicester – The Shed
11.11.15 Nottingham – The Old Angel
12.11.15 Birmingham – Scruffy Murphy’s
13.11.15 London – The Purple Turtle
14.11.15 Brighton –Green Door Store
The Other were formed in Leichlingon, Germany, from the ashes of a Misfits covers band, The Ghouls, in 2002. They soon made a name for themselves for their horror movie inspired image and stage outfits, manic live performances and catchy, hook- laden songs. After the release of their debut album ‘They’re Alive’ in 2004, The Other supported the likes of The Misfits, Wednesday 13 and The 69 Eyes round Germany. ‘We Are Who We Eat’, The Other’s second album, released in 2006, was similarly well received, seeing the band winning European tours with Bela B, Wednesday 13 and The Meteors, selling out the Key Club in Hollywood, and supporting The Damned and The Cult back in Germany.
More recently, the band have persevered through a number of setbacks to serve up their latest horror masterpiece, ‘Fear Itself’. When 50% of their former line-up departed, leaving frontman Rod Usher and drummer Doc Caligari to their own devices, Rod remembers “of course we asked ourselves: quo vadis? But from the beginning Doc and I were determined to keep going, no matter what. Now we know that sometimes you have to wade through a vale of tears to create an atmosphere of departure.”
The band owes its newfound optimism to guitarists Pat Laveau and Ben Crowe, plus bassist Aaron Torn, who not only complete the line-up perfectly, but have also made the band stylistically more diverse thanks to the conscious distribution of the guitar parts onto two pairs of shoulders. You want proof? All you have to do is listen to the new album ‘Fear Itself’, a dark grab bag packed with the most powerful horror punk worldwide, the way only The Other are capable of creating it. Usher: “Our new band members have contributed lots of ideas to the new album, so our musical range is more diverse than ever before.”
Like its predecessor ‘The Devils You Know’, ‘Fear Itself’ was produced by Waldemar Sorychta (Grip Inc., Tiamat, Moonspell), who was also responsible for the powerful final mix of ‘New Blood’ (2010). As far as The Other are concerned, Sorychta is the ideal producer, or, as Usher puts it: “There could be no better producer for The Other than Waldemar, with the exception of Bob Ezrin (Alice Cooper, Kiss) and Rick Rubin (Metallica, Danzig, The Cult) perhaps.”
And there could be nobody better than Daniel Madden and the Figurenwerkstatt Ruland replica workshop to create the Rod Usher and Doc Caligari collectible dolls and The Other wall plaque. So The Other mark 2015 continue to be a multimedia spectacle, a real Eldorado for horror fans and collectors. ‘Fear Itself’ is the perfect soundtrack for that scene.
