The Dead Queen Rises under his Donna Slash alias. Sonic inspiration for the album came from “a lot of eighties slasher and Italian horror movies with super weird synth soundtracks,” he says.
In many respects, it registers as a maturation of the kind of music Vogelsong made with his former punk band, HomoSuperior. Meanwhile, the lyrics grew out of a dawning realization that, after essentially 20 years of heavy drinking, “I’m looking at the world clearly for the first time.
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