{"id":31180,"date":"2022-10-02T09:30:57","date_gmt":"2022-10-02T14:30:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.modernfix.com.php72-4.lan3-1.websitetestlink.com\/?p=31180"},"modified":"2022-10-02T09:30:57","modified_gmt":"2022-10-02T14:30:57","slug":"band-profile-butcher-babies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/modernfix.com\/band-profiles\/band-profile-butcher-babies\/","title":{"rendered":"Band Profile: Butcher Babies"},"content":{"rendered":"

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This is the Los Angeles based heavy metal band Butcher Babies<\/strong><\/span>.<\/h3>\n

Let’s just get the obvious out of the way so we can focus on the music. Or not.<\/p>\n

The band features two beyond hot sex-pots\u00a0as dual-vocalists that go by the names of\u00a0Heidi Shepherd<\/strong> and Carla Harvey<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

These two are NOT afraid to use their sexuality<\/strong> to promote themselves and their band. The two are notorious for appearing topless on stage, sans some strategically placed nipple tape<\/strong>. Their original intent was an homage to the late punk queen Wendy O. Williams<\/strong> (Plasmatics) as is the band’s name which was taken from the Williams written song, “Butcher Baby”.<\/p>\n

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But after numerous years of the provocative look, the girls have retired the tape. Dammit. (*included below is a video of the band covering Pantera’s ‘Fucking Hostile’ featuring a performance in said nipple tape, because you know you wanted to see that. Don’t lie.)<\/p>\n

What might have been\u00a0perceived\u00a0as a cheap gimmick was\u00a0soon blasted to bits once a fair chance was\u00a0given to the bands music. Heavily influenced by other aggressive acts\u00a0like Slipknot, Marilyn Manson, Guns N Roses, and Pantera… credit goes to the full band for melding the multiple points of entry\u00a0into\u00a0the delivery of a nu-school type metal.<\/p>\n

Jason Klein<\/strong> (bass),\u00a0Henry Flury<\/strong> (guitar), and\u00a0Chris Warner<\/strong> (drums) are probably left in the dark behind the spotlight that seems to focus in like a couple of high beams (get it?) on the voluptuous vixens, but it is their music that gives the foundation upon which the girls scream at the world.<\/p>\n

All cheap sexist jokes aside, (the metal community can be emotionally\u00a0masochistic at times),\u00a0these front-women\u00a0really do have their metal chops honed and deliver their rock with full intensity.<\/p>\n

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Something Century Media records was quick to notice, signing the band within a year after the\u00a0release of their self-produced EP.<\/p>\n

Side note, the same year the band dropped\u00a0their first music, singer Carla Harvey also released a “Butcher Babies” comic book<\/strong> at the San Diego Comic Con in 2011, greatly increasing the bands nerd cred. Which is actually important in true metal communities… show me a hard core metal head, and I’ll show you a guy who has a Dungeons & Dragons “Monster Manual” somewhere in his house.<\/p>\n

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Their live show has been described as:\u00a0“…a loud crashing blend of heavy metal, punk and thrash that recalls Pantera<\/strong>,” with a stage show that embodies the horror antics of Alice Cooper and Rob Zombie. “Carla and Heidi don\u2019t merely sing: they assault the crowd with a blinding flash of aggression and abuse. And the crowd loves them for it.\u201d<\/p>\n

In 2012, the band went into the studio with producer\u00a0Josh Wilbur (Gojira, Lamb of God, Hatebreed) and recorded\u00a0their debut album, “Goliath<\/em><\/strong>“.<\/p>\n

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The first assault from the album to be released was the\u00a0raucously grinding, “I Smell A Massacre”<\/strong>.<\/p>\n