# MY LIFE WITH THE THRILL KILL KULT’s Breakthrough LP ‘Sexplosion!’ Remastered Reissue Available on Vinyl

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- Published: 2022-06-21T15:30:00-05:00
- Author: Eugene Tierney

**MY LIFE WITH THE THRILL KILL KULT’s Breakthrough LP ‘Sexplosion!’**
**30th Anniversary
Remastered Reissue Available On Limited Edition Vinyl via Wax Trax!**

**Features Never-Before-Heard Song (“Any Way Ya Wanna”) From The Original Album 
Sessions, Plus Bonus Remixes**

[**Check out the Premiere of the “Any Way You Wanna” Video on Rolling Stone**](https://email.cloud.secureclick.net/c/6813?id=7877504.19386.1.78077102c8061bf059c6d0b81aa92209)

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_“The video, a psychedelic montage of movie clips with fuzzy imagery of the band
directed by sound and visual artist Animoscillator, harkens back to the group’s 
early Nineties aesthetic.”- _**_Rolling Stone_**

_“Easily My Life With the Thrill Kill Kult’s finest hour, and a deliciously trashy
and fun fusion of industrial/goth posing, dancefloor campiness, and Vegas/lounge
comfort and sleaze — Sexplosion! never forgets to entertain.”- _**_ALL MUSIC_**

_“Deliciously Decadent”- _**_TROUSER PRESS_**

_“(TKK) would go on to make some of the weirdest music of the late ’80s and early’
90s, a pastiche of B-movie dialogue and interview snippets, house-music beats, metal
guitars, fuzzy synthesizers and lecherous shrieking. At time when non-commercial
bands like Butthole Surfers and Meat Puppets were able to achieve MTV hits, Thrill
Kill Kult landed on the pop and alternative-rock charts.”- _**_CHICAGO TRIBUNE_**

With the deluxe reissue of their seminal third full-length album ‘Sexplosion!,’ **
My Life With The Thrill Kill Kult** return to the scene of the crime: their original
label and home, **Wax Trax! Records.** And Wax Trax! Records is proud to welcome
one of the label’s premier acts back home.

Led by unexpected radio hit “Sex On Wheelz,” 1991’s ‘Sexplosion!’ became the band’s
biggest album, selling in excess of 250,000 copies. The new expanded edition has
been lovingly **remastered** from original sources and is timed to celebrate its**
30th anniversary** (well, 31st anniversary… thanks Covid!)

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**“Any Way You Wanna” video premiere on RollingStone.com:** [https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-news/my-life-with-the-thrill-kill-kult-sexplosion-outtake-1367320/](https://email.cloud.secureclick.net/c/6813?id=7877504.19389.1.5ddd442b01d4058b23252e66acbc1f21)

Once way ahead of its time, ‘Sexplosion!’ is finally right on time. The reissue **
includes the previously unreleased track “Any Way Ya Wanna,” recorded during the
same sessions as the rest of the album back in 1991.** See the full track listing
below for information on additional extras.

Hailing from Chicago’s renowned Wax Trax! Records stable of recording artists, My
Life With The Thrill Kill Kult, or TKK for short, have been conjuring up sonic tales
of sex, blasphemy and kitschy horror since 1987. Along with label mates including**
Front 242, Ministry** and **KMFDM**, TKK helped develop the industrial music genre,
but they continued to evolve, creating one of the most diverse repertoires in modern
music.

Their sound can be described as electronic rock, heavily influenced by both disco
and funk. One of their most distinctive characteristics is the use of spoken-word
samples lifted from B-movies laced throughout their songs. Since debuting, they 
have released 13 studio albums, and their music has been featured in a variety of
films, television/cable shows and soundtracks, all the while making a reputation
for themselves as one of the most notorious and controversial cult bands of their
generation.

Artist **Franke Nardiello** and musician **Marston Daley**, two Chicago neighbors
who enjoyed late night burritos while watching foreign horror movies, initially 
set out to make a trashy B movie to be called “My Life With The Thrill Kill Kult.”
While the film itself never came to fruition, the songs they wrote for the intended
soundtrack took on a life of their own.

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Taking the stage names **Groovie Mann** (Nardiello) and **Buzz McCoy** (Daley), 
they worked on creating an occult-biker meets disco-rock influence look for the 
project, which included a bevy of voluptuous back-up singers and dancers known as
the Bomb Gang Girlz.

They released their first album ‘I See Good Spirits And I See Bad Spirits’ in 1988,
and followed up with the hard-hitting dance floor classic “Kooler Than Jesus” the
next year. By the time they released their second album ‘Confessions Of A Knife’
in 1990, they were one of Wax Trax!’s biggest acts, attracting the attention of 
indie music fans and the ire of religious groups in equal measure.

The _New York Times_ wrote, _“Sex, blasphemy, big beats and go-go dancing; they’re
all in a day’s work for My Life With The Thrill Kill Kult.”_

For Sexplosion!, their third full length album, the band turned to a new sound, 
recalling: _“During 1989-90 we did a tour called the Inferno Xpress. We played mash-
ups of our songs mixed with disco music, and we played under a mirror ball, with
police lights spinning, and fog so dense no one could even see us. The stage show
turned into a strobed out, decadent three ring circus. So, when it came time to 
record a new album, we continued with the disco vibe from tour and wrote a lot of
the new material around that. We thought it would make a nice contrast to the distorted,
harder elements of our sound. We also brought in some spy movie / James Bond orchestral
elements to add more contrast. We replaced the occult stuff with sexual exploration
content. There were never any thoughts or goals of making anything commercial. We
were just grooving on a different wavelength. We had moved on from the leather biker
look. And we weren’t feeling the “industrial” hard synth, dance stuff. We aimed 
to be more explorational in our approach to where we were heading as a band. At 
the time, we were shocked “Sex On Wheelz” was so popular. It was actually conceived
as a campy, mocking “radio rock” song. It was our little joke. And the opposite 
happened. We never thought it would turn into what it did. The power of a guitar
hook and repetitive vocal line! Music is weird.”_

Sexplosion!’s phenomenal record sales led to the band signing a deal with Interscope
Records. Hollywood also embraced TKK, and the band’s music appeared in a slew of
films and tv shows including Ralph Bakshi’s _Cool World_, Paul Verhoven’s _Showgirls_,
MTV’s _“Beavis And Butthead”_, and the cult film classic _The Crow_, in which the
group make a cameo appearance.

My Life With The Thrill Kill Kult continue to release new material via their own**
SleazeBox Records** label ([sleazebox.com](https://email.cloud.secureclick.net/c/6813?id=7877504.19390.1.e6482f91d7f7e2e695415137ed4d367a)
but are pleased to re-team with Wax Trax! after three decades for this deluxe reissue.
They previously teamed with the label for 2019’s reissue of ‘Confessions Of A Knife.’

Thrill Kill Kult also continue to tour extensively with a rotating cast of musicians
and dubious characters. However, the core of the project has always been Nardiello
and Daley, both on record and in the live act.

_Groove on, assume the motion…_

After 30 years, WaxTrax! is so happy to get this vinyl gem back into circulation
and in the hands of TKK fans everywhere.

This special edition’s bonus tracks includes an unreleased song “Any Way Ya Wanna,”
recorded during the same sessions as the rest of the album back in 1991, as well
as 3 remixes of album tracks.

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Remastered from original sources. 
**Limited to 1,500 – Pressed on transparent pink
vinyl**

**Tracks include:** 
A1 The International Sin Set A2 Leathersex A3 A Martini Built
For 2 A4 Dream Baby A5 Mood No. 6

B1 Sexplosion 
B2 Princess Of The Queens (The Lost Generation) B3 Sex On Wheelz 
B4 A Continental Touch B5 Mystery Babylon

C1 Any Way Ya Wanna **(Previously Unreleased)** 
C2 Sex On Wheelz **(Midnite Marauder
Mix)** C3 Leathersex **(Remix)**

D1 Sexplosion **(Mega-Mixxx)**

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