Calabrese (band)
| Calabrese | |
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 Live (2013) |
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| General information | |
| origin | Phoenix , Arizona , United States |
| Genre (s) | Horror punk |
| founding | 2003 |
| Website | www.calabreserock.com |
| Current occupation | |
| Bobby Calabrese | |
| Jimmy Calabrese | |
| Davey Calabrese | |
Calabrese is an American horror punk music group founded in 2003 in Phoenix , Arizona by brothers Jimmy, Bobby and Davey Calabrese. The music group describes itself as "The World's Greatest Horror Rock Band" .
history
A major musical influence for Calabrese is Glenn Danzig's band trio , consisting of the Misfits , Samhain and Danzig . Other influences come from The Damned and the Ramones . Typically for the genre, the band deals with topics like death, vampires, werewolves, zombies and general topics from horror B-films in a humorous way .
A high concert presence, also as supporting acts for well-known groups such as the Misfits , Nekromantix , Tiger Army or Mad Sin , numerous sampler contributions and critical praise made Calabrese quickly popular in the horror punk scene in the United States.
In 2004 , after an EP, Calabrese released their debut album 13 Hallowe'ens . The German horror punk label Fiend Force Records placed a song of it on their sampler This is Horrorpunk 2 , making the band known to a wider audience for the first time in Europe. In 2008 the follow-up album The Traveling Vampire Show was released . The album name is borrowed from a book by the American horror author Richard Laymon (German title: "The Show"). Although it has been criticized that many of the group's songs sound too similar, André Ohler praises the album in the music magazine Ox : “The second work comes up with a fat sound that the first long player missed so painfully. So if you from Calabrese, and there will be many outside of the horror punk community, have nothing in your closet, you should grab it now, because you can't actually get past this band if you are into horror punk with doo-wop bonds and boygroup- Appeal stands. "
Although the Calabrese brothers are already well known in the USA, the band is still an insider tip in Europe. Calabrese played their first European concert on June 1, 2009 at the Wave-Gotik-Treffen in Leipzig together with Blitzkid and Shadow Reichenstein . In March 2010, the group released their third album entitled Calabrese III: They Call Us Death . In the horror film The Graves by director Brian Pulido, released in 2009, the band made a guest appearance.
Traditionally, the band does not determine the title of the album itself, but instead lets fans submit suggestions after the respective song title and topic have been published. After deciding on a particular proposal, the author is named in the album.
With Flee the Light , Calabrese released their seventh studio album in 2019. A special feature is that the band released its own music video for each song on the album, several times with the participation of the model Maegan Machine.
Discography
Albums
- 2004: 13 Hallowe'ens
- 2008: The Traveling Vampire Show
- 2010: Calabrese III: They Call Us Death
- 2012: Dayglo Necros
- 2013: Born With A Scorpion's Touch
- 2015: Lust for Sacrilege
- 2019: Flee the Light
EPs
- 2003: Midnight Spookshow
Music videos
- 2006: Backseat of My Hearse
- 2008: Vampires Don't Exist
- 2008: Voices of the Dead
- 2012: The Dead Don't Rise
- 2013: Ghostwolves
- 2013: Coffin of Ruins
- 2013: Born With a Scorpion's Touch
- 2014: I Wanna Be a Vigilante
- 2014: Lust for Sacrilege
- 2014: Flesh and Blood
- 2015: Gimme War
- 2015: Wanted Man
- 2016: The Dark Is Who I Am / Drift Into Dust
- 2019: Maleficis Visibilis
- 2019: He Who Flees the Light
- 2019: Let Doom Overtake Us
- 2019: King Prowler
- 2019: Demonspitter
- 2019: Pleasures of Evil
- 2019: Hallucinatory Void
- 2019: And in the End ... I am Nothing
- 2019: All the Devils in Hell
- 2019: End of Time at the Gates of Hell
- 2019: Invisible Witches
Web links
- Official website
- Calabrese at Allmusic (English)
- Calabrese at Discogs (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ http://www.metallic-zine.de/index.php?cat=interviews&id=157
- ↑ http://www.ox-fanzine.de/web/rev/63356/reviews.207.html Ox-Fanzine, issue # 79 (August / September 2008)