Bungle's forward-thinking polystylism is an inspiration, as are Danny Elfman's cinematic soundscapes and early work with Oingo Boingo. They cannibalize genres, forging a thrillingly fucked-up compositional aesthetic that blends mismatched ingredients and alien worlds into a head-spinning take on nu-metal, thrash, industrial and trap-metal, with smatterings of funk, bossa nova and ska. So far, Wellings, who possesses a six-octave range, has "let the music speak for itself." In fact, this is their first-ever interview. "Maybe this is a fucked-up coping mechanism," Wellings says, gently ushering Yoda away from my legs, "but anything that scares me will eventually find its way into my art."ĭespite being one of the most followed Australian musicians on TikTok, having tens of millions of streams and a wild collab with Korn's Jonathan Davis under their belt, and earning a personal invite to open for Avenged Sevenfold on their North American summer tour, Wellings has yet to be media trained. The only thing that breaks the dark spell is Yoda, a two-year-old Pitbull rescue who's desperately trying to clamber onto my lap. Look out the back and you'll see a gloomier sight: eerie elephant statues flanking a pool that appears unused, leaves twirling on its surface. Look out the front window and you'll likely spot some Hollywood celebs cheerily strolling past. Befitting their stage name (which is taken from the Deftones song), they live inside the mansion of a modern-day Nosferatu, a dark shield from the L.A. Wellings has turned the most vicious of these voices into their vampiric project Kim Dracula. Wellings is just honestly, and bravely, verbalizing their experience of living with OCD, the obsessive-compulsive disorder that has, at times, convinced them that they are the worst person in existence. It's not the most comforting thing to hear from a stranger while sat across from them in their Los Angeles home, black walls with red accents and gothic furniture surrounding us.īut there's no danger of death here. "I used to have a terrible fixation on killing," says the Australian-born musician known as Kim Dracula, staring down shyly, purple hair shielding their gaze. Samuel Wellings always thought they'd grow up to be a serial killer.
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