Spent Hell's Night with Starcrawlers

Here is what you missed in on Hell’s Night at Third Man Records..

It was a monster mash of all types at the Third Man Records, for the Season of the Witch concert series. With costume as a requirement for entry, everyone was deck out in the most unusual and creepiest outfits. This also applies to the bands who were performing that night. Some dressed as the three kings, skeletons, and the Grim Reaper. Starcrawlers were the headliner of the night dressed up as Wednesday, Beetlejuice, Bob Ross, and a Torture angel.

A Little about Starcrawlers

Starcrawler is a band of misfit rock & rollers for a new generation. The visceral, not-to-be-missed experience of a Starcrawler show perfectly melds a classic arena rock show with the sweat and grit of a club gig, typically featuring frontwoman Arrow de Wilde covered in blood and writhing across the stage in a bejeweled jockstrap and guitarist Henri Cash throwing his guitar and jumping into the crowd to perform. Starcrawler—vocalist Arrow de Wilde, guitarist/vocalist Henri Cash, bassist Tim Franco, and drummer Austin Smith—is a band possessed by the spirit of its hometown of Los Angeles, every movement charged with primal and manic electricity. The band formed in 2015, and since that time has gone from bashing out songs in the garage to earning legendary fans such as Shirley Manson and Elton John, and to supporting the likes of Beck, Foo Fighters, Spoon, The Distillers, MC5 and more. Their forthcoming sophomore album Devour You was produced by Nick Launay (Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds, Yeah Yeah Yeahs, L7) and came to life at the famed Sunset Sound. It takes the feral intensity of their 2018 self-titled debut and twists it into something grander and more gracefully composed. With its more elaborate and nuanced yet harder-hitting sonic palette, the result is a selection of songs radiating both raw sensitivity and untamable power, and a record that de Wilde says, “encapsulates all the blood, sweat, bruised knees, and broken fingers of a Starcrawler show.”