To follow The Darts with even more fury, Killer Kin stormed La Mécanique Ondulatoire for their first-ever Paris show and cranked every knob to 11. This gang of punk-metal derelicts (frontman Mattie Lea, guitarist-songwriter Chloe Rose, bassist Marco Carotenuto, lead guitarist Brady Wilson, and drummer Jason Kyek) ejaculated a set of pure rock n' roll adrenaline.
On their excellent debut album, Killer Kin channels The Stooges, New York Dolls, MC5, and Radio Birdman. But live, they take things to a whole other level. I can’t recall the exact setlist: the constant bombardment of decibels erased everything but the chaos. From the first beat (after a quick fix of a faulty cable) the band went scorched-earth, obliterating any sense of subtlety.
Mattie Lea is everywhere at once: on stage, in the crowd, screaming into faces, an unrelenting force of kinetic rock aggression. Chloe Rose exudes lethal cool, sex, and menace as she slashes out those heavy-metal riffs with surgical precision. Marco Carotenuto on bass, looked like a healthier Johnny Thunders (not a difficult feat), delivering gritty low-end groove. Brady Wilson kept his solos short and brutal; here it’s not about virtuosity so much as pummeling the room with decibels. And speaking of pummeling, Jason Kyek pounded his drums like they owed him money, pushing every song into overdrive.
By the time they finished, the venue (which was already dripping wet from The Darts’ set,) had become a fiery furnace of metal hell. This was everything a rock‑and‑roll show should be: dangerous, immersive, unforgettable.
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