Electric Hellfire Club
The band's name was derived from the English eighteenth-century group of Satanic society swingers known as the Hellfire Club; the band was formed in an attempt to emulate the club's devilish hedonism in a musical (thus "Electric") form. At the core of the group is the vocalist, synthesizer programmer and Satanist Thomas Thorn. Thorn had previously been in the seminal industrial dance act the Thrill Kill Kult under the name Buck Ryder. In 1991 he had become alienated by their increasingly commercial direction and contemptuous attitude towards darker topics. He left and formed the Electric Hellfire Club with a diverse group of musicians, including the Reverend Doctor Luv (keyboards), Ronny Valeo (guitars) and Janna Flail (drums), who was later replaced on percussion by Richard Frost. All of them brought different influences into the band's sound, from heavy metal and ethnic music, to punk and techno. Thorn's own fascination with 60s psychedelia adds to this cocktail to create a style that is distinctive and colourful. Frivolous and sinister in equal parts, the Electric Hellfire Club are far removed from the clichd stamping grounds of Satanic rock.
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Albums
- (1999) Empathy For The Devil - CD1
Top Tracks
- Halloween Medley: Halloween Theme...
- Sympathy for the Devil
- Highway to Hell
- Devil Inside
- Shout At the Devil
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