Thee Band Membres

* Welcome to Dialysis and Catastrophe! *

Bhayne (The Hoarse Whisperer)

Role: Lyrics, Growling and weeping, custom percussion, programming.

Quote: "Like a dark rose I wither under the weight of a thousand black stars. Like an Angel I die in the spiraling peril of night.

Musical Influences: Vertiginous Catatonia, Freshly Dead, Sisters of Mercy, Deciduous Decay (the older stuff), Anthrax, Michael Bolton.

Favorite Pastime: Weeping bitterly with baleful sobs for those who have no hope of ever being as Goth as me.

Malady

Role: Bagpipes, three string guitar, scares small children.

 Quote: "If people would just shut up I wouldn't have
to assault them with kitchen utensils."

Musical Influences: The screams and crashes from the mental patients at the asylum next door, the wrecknig ball demolishing the building across the street, drunken bums howling outside my window at 4am, and Sisters of Mercy.

Favorite Pastime: Keeping my peglegged landlady awake all night by scraping cheese graters across the ceiling.

In Absentia

Role: Plunks keys, wears vinyl and looks cute, swivels hips.

Quote: "Knives are so shiny."

Musical influences: The Happy Days theme song, Sisters of Mercy.

Favorite Pastime: Wearing black things 'n stuff.

Perish

Role: Acts servile, wails like a banshee, screams
nonsense about puppies in an effort to be spooky.

Quote: "OW! ....do that again!"

Musical influences: Fingernails on chalkboards, The Cure,
Sisters of Mercy.

Favorite Pastime: Being manacled to walls, playing checkers.

Catastrophy

Role: Upside-down bassist, wields kitchen utensils, grates cheese on command.

Quote: "Justice comes in the form of my flying boot."

Musical Influences: BVD Nation, Funker Poopt, Project Tablefork and Sisters of Mercy.

Favorite Pastime: Sniping ravers, sniping yuppies, hijacking pastry trucks, threatening innocent bystanders with stale baguettes.

Dialysis

Role: Angry pounder upon inanimate things, overall gore.

Quote: "See, it's like this....YOU SUCK."

Musical Influences: Cradle of Happy Cute Squeaky Things, Disco Bimbo Glitter Poodles, Knights of Black Fungus, Whispering Meathooks, and Sisters of Mercy

Favorite Pastime: Clawing through drywall, making sandwiches, burying things, digging up things and burying them in places where they shouldn't be, burying sandwiches under 10 feet of drywall and clawing through it only to dig them up. Puppies.

Local Live Band Members

Vertiginy

Role: Replacement guitarist for John, backing vocals,stares at ceiling with intense interest, perpetuates spooky atmosphere.

Quote: "GRGGRABLAGHHGHhhhhh....bacon bits."

Musical Influences: Sisters of Mercy, goats mating.

Favorite Pastime: Watching things burn, digging for bones.

John

Role: Plays guitars when he's not breaking them, bleeds a lot.

Quote: "But, I'm not Goth."

Musical Influences: Knights of Black Fungus, AngstWeasels, Whispering Meathooks, Yanni, Sisters of Mercy.

 Favorite Pastime: Drinking, bleeding, and passing out.

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