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New Christian Music: Alien Sex Fiend live in Tokyo, 1985
06.18.2014
09:23 am
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In 1982, Nick Fiend and Mrs Fiend, with their comrades-in-weird Yaxi Highrizer and Johnny Ha-Ha, hit upon the idea of kitchen-sinking sleaze punk, gothic darkness, and industrial rhythms with a B-movie-cheap Grand Guignol performance ethos copped from The Cramps and Alice Cooper. They called this unholy alloy Alien Sex Fiend, and they’ve released over a dozen LPs, including genre essentials like Acid Bath, Maximum Security, and Curse Their morbidly kitschy vision would eventually spawn successful descendants in the likes of Marilyn Manson, Coal Chamber, and Mudvayne, but what those ‘90s bands gained by ramping up the theatrical slickness, they lost by not being any good.

In 1985, Alien Sex Fiend’s Tokyo tour dates were recorded for release as a live LP and a video, both titled Liquid Head in Tokyo. From the band’s 1997-looking web site:

Liquid Head In Tokyo was Alien Sex Fiend’s first totally live album—live with no overdubs of any kind (unlike many so-called “live” albums!)—and was initially released as a vinyl LP in July 1985. It was recorded over two shows on 17.01.85 at Tsubaki House in Tokyo during Alien Sex Fiend’s notorious sell out Japanese tour. The track “Back To The Egg” was specially written for the tour and is not available elsewhere, also included are Indie Chart top ten hits, “R.I.P.”, “Dead And Buried” and “E.S.T.”. In 1996 Liquid Head in Tokyo was re-issued on CD in both the UK & the US with the addition of 4 bonus tracks to the original 8 vinyl LP tracks, these were “Dead And Buried” (taken from the 12” single), “Gurl At The End Of My Gun” (from the 12” Ignore The Machine single), “New Christian Music” (10” RIP single version) plus “Wild Women.”

Alien Sex Fiend still exist today, and are still led by Nick and Mrs. Fiend. Their latest LP of new material is 2010’s Death Trip.
 

Posted by Ron Kretsch
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06.18.2014
09:23 am
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