Joseph Poole’s earliest musical excursion came playing guitar in the heavy metal band Misery, which later changed its name to Psycho Opera. Following his departure in 1992, the singer formed the Maniac Spider Trash alongside guitarist Abby Normal, bassist Michael Patrick, and drummer Sicko Zero. The band’s debut release was the 1994 EP “Dumpster Mummies”, followed a year later by the full-length “Murder Happy Fairytales”.
Again featuring guitarist Normal and drummer Sicko Zero, Joseph Poole’s subsequent band, Frankenstein Drag Queens from Planet 13, was formed in 1996. From 1996 to 2002, the group issued the studio albums “The Late, Late, Late Show”, “Night of the Living Drag Queens”, “Songs from the Recently Deceased”, “Viva Las Violence”, the compilation “6 Years, 6 Feet Under the Influence”, and the box-set “Little Box of Horrors”. Following work with Slipknot’s Joey Jordison and his horror punk band the Murderdolls, Poole focused on his solo releases under the Wednesday 13 moniker later releasing his debut “Transylvania 90210: Songs of Death, Dying, and the Dead” in 2005.
A year later Wednesday 13 followed the release with his second studio album “Fang Bang” in August 2006. Led by the single “My Home Sweet Homicide”, the record was marked by glam themes and represents the signer’s most playful album to date. The full-length “Skeletons” followed in 2008 as did the EP “Bloodwork” and the live record “Fuck It, We’ll Do It Live”. The following year in 2009, Poole formed the group Gunfire 76 and released the album, “Casualties & Tragedies”, the same year. In 2010 returning to work with the Murderdolls, the group released the album “Women and Children Last”, before issuing the Wednesday 13 EP “Re-Animated” in 2011.
The studio album “Calling All Corpses” appeared in 2011, after which he issued the EP “Spook & Destroy” in 2012, the full-length “The Dixie Dead” in 2013, and the acoustic album “Undead Unplugged” in 2014. Marking 10 years of Wednesday 13, the 84-track compilation “Dead Meat: 10 Years of Blood, Feathers & Lipstick” was released in 2014, featuring demos, remixes and songs from his other bands Murderdolls and Frankenstein Drag Queens From Planet 13. Following the release of the singles “Tunes From the Crypt V.1” and “Trick Or Treat… We’re Going To Kill You” in 2014, Wednesday 13 issued his sixth studio album “Monsters of the Universe: Come Out and Plague” in January 2015.
Wednesday 13 is the terrifying front man who is originally from the goth metal band, the Murderdolls, who had a pretty good run back in the late 90s and early 00’s with their dark music. Wednesday 13 pretty much took that Murderdolls sound and made it his own, releasing albums since 2004. Anyways, he performs tonight to a room full of Goths, as in, I’ve never seen this amount of Goths before, chains, platforms, make up, black, policeman hats. You can’t tell the gender of most people here. It’s weird. Not my cup of tea but apparently everyone elses.
Wednesday 13 walks out on the dimly lit red stage to such a loud applause, you would think that he is in fact the leader of the Goths – who go absolutely mental at his presence, let alone when he decides to finally start singing. He blasts into some of his biggest material from the last decade in the form of songs such as “I Walked With a Zombie” which is probably his biggest song to date. There’s something about this whole “goth” scene that just doesn’t make sense. All I’m listening to is heavy rock. There is nothing remotely Gothic about it, it’s just the image, but hey it’s the 21st century and image is everything!
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