Monday, August 17, 2009
Music news Interview with a Vampyre
Posted by Chad Radford @ChadRad on Mon, Aug 17, 2009 at 1:00 PM
Vampyre
Free. Sundown (9 p.m.). Sat., Aug. 22. Hooters, 885 Joe Frank Harris Parkway, Cartersville. 770-607-9474. www.hooters.com.
Vampires walk among us right now in Atlanta.
At least that’s what guitarist/vocalist Nosferatu (née Scott Lewanowicz) and drummer/vocalist Chyanne Lynne of the goth/metal/industrial band Vampyre would have us believe. Strangely enough, frontman Nosferatu hesitates to fully disclose his vampiric ways, but his scantily clad counterpart Lynne makes no bones about it. “It’s true, I am a living, breathing vampire and I don’t care who knows,” she declares. “I am what I am and if you don’t like it, then it’s just like my song says, ‘Fuck You’!”
The song she invokes is a cathartic little ditty that Lynne wrote while stewing in a jail cell after being arrested for biting an overzealous fan — an incident over which she is still attending anger management classes. But as a mantra, “Fuck You” typifies the group’s sound, carried out in other such songs as “Light It Up,” “Memories" and “Real Vampyres.” Their sound is a lo-fi concoction of distorted, Ibanez guitars, keyboards and drums crunching out dark riffs in a wash of watered-down industrial rock. When citing influences, 29-year-old Lynne, who has been playing drums since she was 5, drops the names of everyone from Rush’s drummer Neil Peart to Nine Inch Nails to Pantera. But her No. 1 all-time favorite musician is Ozzy Osbourne. “I love the fact that he bites, too!” she giggles.
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