MY LIFE WITH THE THRILL K*ll KULT - Delicate Terror Tour Part 1

Schedule

Thu, 06 Nov, 2025 at 05:00 pm

UTC-05:00

Location

Reverb | Reading, PA

MY LIFE WITH THE THRILL K*ll KULT - Delicate Terror Tour Part 1
with Die Sexual & Devora
November 6, 2025
All Ages
$27.50 ADV | $30 DOS
7:00 PM Doors | 8:00 PM Show

Hailing from Chicago’s renowned Wax Trax! Records stable of recording artists, My Life With The Thrill K*ll Kult have been conjuring up sonic tales of sex, blasphemy and kitschy horror since 1987. Along with label mates such as Front 242 and Ministry, TKK helped develop the industrial music genre, but they themselves continued to evolve their sound over the years, creating one of the most diverse repertoires in modern music. They can be described as electronic rock, heavily influenced by both disco and punk, yet the echoes of lounge, glam, surf and new wave can also be heard. The use of spoken-word samples lifted from B-movies laced between sleek and slithering vocals gives the band their signature mark. They have released 13 albums, a slew of remixes and compilations, and their music has appeared in a wide variety of films, shows and soundtracks.
Artist Franke Nardiello and musician Marston Daley, two Chicago neighbors who enjoyed late night binges watching trashy exploitation flicks and horror movies, wanted to make their own film to be called “My Life With The Thrill K*ll Kult”. While the project never came to fruition, they wrote some music to be the accompanying soundtrack. Both worked at the Wax Trax! record store, and when label founders Jim Nash and Dannie Flesher heard the songs, they were intrigued. Using the title of the film as the name of the band, they released a 3-song EP in early 1988. The response was overwhelming, and it was clear fans wanted to hear more.
Taking the stage names Groovie Mann (Nardiello) and Buzz McCoy (Daley), they began to focus on music full time, creating an occult meets leather-clad biker image to complement the band’s name. This included enlisting a bevy of voluptuous back-up singers/dancers known as the Bomb Gang Girlz. In June of ’88, the duo flew to label mate Luc Van Acker’s studio in Belgium to record their first album I See Good Spirits and I See Bad Spirits. It was recorded in just ten days, and mixed in another ten days at Southern Studios in London. They followed that up with two hard-hitting dance floor 12”s - Kooler Than Jesus (1989) and 1990’s Cuz It’s Hot, which features no-wave chanteuse Lydia Lunch on vocals. The New York Times wrote, “Sex, blasphemy, big beats and go-go dancing; they’re all in a day’s work for My Life With The Thrill K*ll Kult”. This attracted the attention of indie fans, and the ire of the PMRC and conservative religious groups in practically equal measure. By the time of their sophomore album, Confessions Of A Knife (1990), they were far and away one of the biggest selling acts on the label.

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