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Painted Doll, the new band formed by comedian / guitar shredder Dave Hill (Valley Lodge, Cobra Verde) and heavy metal legend Chris Reifert (Autopsy, Death), have signed to NYC independent label Tee Pee Records. The group’s self-titled debut, recorded and mixed by Tom Beaujour at Nuthouse Recording in Hoboken, NJ, will see a February 16, 2018 release.
Painted Doll came to life when “a death metal guy and a power pop guy got hammered together at a Goblin concert in Texas.” Soon after, Reifert and Hill began trying to out-deep cut each other with late 60’s/early 70’s Dutch and British psych pop before Chris suggested the two musicians form a band together inspired by the music they’d been trading. What does Painted Doll sound like, you ask? Let’s let the band do the talking…
“The Painted Doll record was a blast to make,” says Hill. “Chris is a death metal legend from the Bay Area and I’m a guy from Cleveland who worships the Kinks. Throw in our mutual love for obscure Dutch bands from the seventies and you’ve got Painted Doll. We’re super psyched to be working with Tee Pee Records to unleash our stone cold jams on the masses.”
“After getting to know Dave and talking about psychedelic bands and stuff, it was clear that Painted Doll needed to happen,” adds Reifert. “The powers of rock gave us our mission, which we gladly accepted. Now you can hear the visions that we had bouncing around in our heads. Foxes and rabbits, velvet and leather, smoldering rock and spacey psych….what else do you need? Play it loud and proud, babies!”
More information on Painted Doll’s debut will surface shortly. Stay tuned to TeePeeRecords.com for updates and info.
About Dave Hill:
Dave Hill is an American comedian, radio host, writer, musician and actor originally from Cleveland, Ohio. He is the host of The Goddamn Dave Hill Show on WFMU radio in Jersey City, New Jersey. Hill is a frequent panelist on the Comedy Central’s @midnight program and has appeared on Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt, Inside Amy Schumer, Full Frontal with Samantha Bee, and The Jim Gaffigan Show among others. Dave hosts the stage show The Dave Hill Explosion at the Upright Citizens Brigade Theatre in New York and Hollywood and currently appears as on-air talent for HBO and Cinemax. Hill played bass for Cleveland-based rock band Cobra Verde, and currently fronts the power pop band Valley Lodge, whose song “Go” is the theme song to HBO’s Last Week Tonight with John Oliver. He was also a member of Cleveland rock bands Sons of Elvis as well as Diamondsnake, a heavy metal band with Moby. Dave Hill has made out with a lot of chicks, is sweet at guitar, and smells really great. You can ask anyone.
About Chris Reifert:
Chris Reifert is an American death metal musician, and one of the pioneers of the death/doom genre. Although his music is more death metal than doom metal, he is one of the first musicians that blended the two styles. Reifert played drums on Death’s debut album, Scream Bloody Gore, and in 1987 formed his own band, Autopsy. After several celebrated albums, Autopsy split up in 1995 and Reifert and bandmate Danny Coralles began playing in their side-project, Abscess, full-time. After Abscess dissolved in 2010, Autopsy reformed. The band’s latest album, Tourniquets, Hacksaws and Graves, was released on April 21, 2014. Read an in-depth interview with Chris Reifert at this location (via Noisey).
“In this day and age, I am rarely taken aback by some of the collaborations that get cooked up in the music biz. Then again, sometimes a collaboration comes along that is so random yet so completely and utterly brilliant. Such is the case with newly minted duo Painted Doll. Painted Doll is the brainchild of the multi-faceted musician Chris Reifert and the also multi-faceted comedian/musician/friend of BV Dave Hill. Both of these dudes carry a helluva lotta real estate on the Klaus Kinski Cultural Relevance Scale.” – BROOKLYN VEGAN
“Dave Hill is a man of many talents. A stand-up and storyteller, he hosts WFMU’s Goddamn Dave Hill Show and he’s authored several bestselling books. He’s also an amazing musician, quite honestly one of the best guitar players I’ve ever seen live (I saw him do a set at Bridgetown a few years ago that blew my mind) and he’s got a fun new music project, called Painted Doll. His partner in Painted Doll is Chris Reifert, a prolific metal musician who drummed on Death’s debut album, ‘Scream Bloody Gore’, and who’s performed with bands like Autopsy and Abscess and over the years. Painted Doll is a departure from Reifert’s other projects, inspired by obscure Euro psych from the early 70s, with reverb-heavy guitar and dreamy vocals.” – THE LAUGH BUTTON
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