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Frankenstein

There are five artists with this name: 1) A Canadian underground hip-hop artist. From his basement somewhere in Canada, this producer made a hand full of gems like "The Pain", "Rain is gone", "Shook Ones Pt 2 (Mobb Deep) remix", "Combine with Frankenstein" & "Sparkin' Intellect". He disappeared as silent as he appeared on the scene, noone knows his whereabouts. The last thing known to man, is his "Live from New York" remix project, with 8 tracks, all with the Frankenstein Trademark sound. 2) FRANKENSTEIN are a punk/psychobilly/swampy blues band from LA.

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Specimen

Specimen was an 80s batcave British band. They have been described as being many different genres of music, including; glam, goth, punk and deathrock. Biography The band formed in Bristol, England during 1980. Their first show was at a street party celebrating the wedding of The Prince of Wales and Lady Diana Spencer. In 1982, the band relocated to Soho, London, where they would play many shows at the infamous club known as The Batcave, Specimen's vocalist Ollie Wisdom founded and ran the club during 1982-1983.

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Inca Babies

Sometime in 1982 or 1983 in Manchester’s Hulme district the Inca Babies were formed. Hulme, a concrete, deck access ‘streets in the sky’ projects, was at that time a demi-bohemia over run with artists, musicians, students, addicts and ‘ne’er do wells’. Previous tenants, mainly families, put there to benefit from this ‘magical new living space’, realising a slum was a slum regardless of how high off the ground you put it, had long gone.

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Blood Duster

Blood Duster are a five piece // band from Melbourne, Australia, known for their fast and heavy musical style. The band are currently enjoying some semi-mainstream success after their self-titled Blood Duster album and an appearance at the annual Big Day Out festival. The band's first offering, Yeest, was a straightforward album. The follow up album, Str8 Outta Northcote was a southern-flavored stoner rock album. The band's third album, Cunt was a more intense and true-to-its-roots offering, with rhythmic bluesy metal guitars and heavy drumwork.

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The Terrors

Punk Rock from Scotland. Influenced by bands such as Minor Threat, Calabrese, The Misfits, Zombina & the Skeletones, The Distillers & The Cramps. We have just put out our new CD City of the Dead which is available at our shows and online. The Terrors started in June 2008 the line-up then was Tina, Scott & Callum. After recording our frist demo cd 'Disasters Only Get Worse' things started to pick up fast and in 2009 Michael joined as the second guitarist and they recorded their first full length album 'City of the Dead' in which Fraser Murderburger played drums until Raph joined...

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Anne-Marie Hurst

Anne-Marie Hurst was the lead vocalist for the groups The Elements, Skeletal Family, and Ghost Dance. She was the lead vocalist of Elements until 1982. In December 1982, she helped form Skeletal Family. After departing from Skeletal Family in 1985, she eventually co-founded Ghost Dance with Gary Marx (formerly of The Sisters of Mercy) in 1985

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The Cemetary Girlz

The band was founded by The Crazy Singer Dj Alien S Pagan in September 2006, Romeo and Manu/Zorch ( Camp Z / Zorch Factor ) (both former members of Sleeping Children) Join The Band a few months later in Paris. After a few beers they decided to play together and to work on a DIY concept for the band, fiercely determined to pursue the lineage of French Coldwave, Deathrock, Batcave. They recorded a 5-tracks demo to spread their evil sounds and are preparing a full debut album that should be finished next year.

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Illuminate

Darkwave/Gothic Rock band formed in Karlsruhe, Germany in 1993 by Johannes Berthold. Scarcely another band among the German-speaking Alternative /(Dark)Wave-scene has polarized media and audience within the last eighteen years as much as ILLUMINATE. Either praised up to the skies or torn apart as „Schlager“ (a German derogatory term for bad pop songs) – be that as it may, for the last decade, Jo-hannes Berthold and his band have left their mark on the Dark scene...

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