Only Theatre of Pain Featuring Rikk Agnew (Christian Death, DI, and Adolescents) performing the classic Christian Death record and more.

Agnew's music career spans more than 30 years. He has previously been a member of some of the most influential bands of the Orange County hardcore punk genre, as well as the highly influential deathrock band Christian Death. During his years with the Adolescents, Agnew became known as one of the best guitarists in the Southern California hardcore punk scene.

In 1981, Agnew attended a performance by Christian Death in Pomona, California. Attracted by their style and sound, he approached them after the show and asked if they needed another guitarist. Agnew joined Christian Death soon after leaving the Adolescents, writing and playing guitar on the seminal Only Theatre of Pain album, issued by Frontier in March 1982. He also performed on the band's Deathwish EP, recorded before the album during the sessions for the compilation Hell Comes to Your House but not released until 1984.

Rikk will be playing the classic Christian Death album Only Theatre of Pain and more.

Change Today Featuring former T.S.O.L. frontman Joe Wood performing songs from Change Today And Revenge.

Joe Wood replaced his brother-in-law Jack Grisham in T.S.O.L. in 1983 and T.S.O.L. titans insisted that Wood taking over intensified the group's gothic and post-punk aspects. Wood's own punk rock days started in the late '70s, with an outfit known as Der Stab piercing local ears following Wood's own exposure to the Germs at a live gig.

From 1983 - 1993 Joe wood and T.S.O.L released four studio albums, one live album, one compilation, and a handful of film soundtrack appearances for the cult films Return of The Living Dead, Under Cover, and Dangerously Close. Joe even appeared in the punk movie The Running Kind.

Joe Wood will be performing with his band Change Today, named after his first album with T.S.O.L. They'll be playing songs off of Change Today and Revenge.

The Wraith

Infused with ‘80s UK post-punk (Death Cult, Killing Joke, Chameleons) and SoCal deathrock (T.S.O.L., Samhain), The Wraith was founded by vocalist Davey Bales, formerly of revered Virginia peace-punkers Lost Tribe, and guitarist Kaz Alvis shortly after they separately washed up in L.A. Their irresistibly distinctive sound – skeletal basslines and tribal beats propelling Alvis’ textured swathes beneath Bales’ poetic, anguished bark – immediately gained a following.

Convulsive, chaotic West Coast shows honed the songs that became The Wraith’s lauded 2017 EP, “Shadow Flag”. A couple of videos and line-up changes later – the band is now completed by Belgian drummer Jef Pauly and Brit bassist Paul Rogers –, their evocative songwriting and pure-punk authenticity earned the ear of producer Mat Mitchell (Puscifer, A Perfect Circle, Love and Rockets etc.).

The Wraith’s 11-song debut album Gloom Ballet and accompanying videos will be released worldwide later 2019.

Deth Crux

Los Angeles deathrock night stalkers Deth Crux spawned from the L.A. extreme metal underground, coalescing around members of doom legends Buried at Sea and local black/death juggernauts Lightning Swords of Death. They debuted in 2015 with their now classic Pears of Anguish demo tape, released that year by underground tape label T(R)APE. The demo tape was met with much acclaim, stirring up quite a buzz and going quickly sold out as the band was already being hailed as a rising promise in US deathrock.

In the wake of the tape's success the band spent the ensuing months writing new music and then booked studio time with famed sound engineer and fellow Buried at Sea bandmate Sanford Parker (Leviathan, Wovenhand, Nachtmystium, Voivod etc.) to record what would become their shapeshifting and tumultuous debut album Mutant Flesh, released in late 2018 on tape and vinyl in the US by Sentient Ruin.

The result is a staggering audio-visual experience where the aforementioned musical influences are set against a backdrop of urban chaos and decadence, glamour, sex, perversion, seduction, death, and body horror, and then stirred into a blood-soaked and hallucinating rock and roll horror story about deviated and once-human beings aimlessly and erratically populating and roaming a damned neon hellscape.

13th Sky

13th Sky is a Los Angeles based band that has blended energetic post-punk and dark alternative styles, to create a sound that is both modern and all their own. Their songs deal with subjects such as isolation, urban decay, political corruption, and dystopia in general, the harsh reality of the collapse of the American Dream.

The band caught the attention of Bari Galvin (Mephisto Walz /former Christian Death member) which led to Galvin recording 3 songs with the band which were later released on Strobelight Record's New Dark Age vol. 3. compilation

Early 2019 brought 13th Sky a new EP "the Marching Fire" and single "self-inflicted" produced by James Perry. In promotion of this new release it has led to generating extensive tours headlining festivals in Mexico and across California.

"Enjoyed the music, nice surprise, haunting music."
-Jay Aston (singer/songwriter, Gene Loves Jezebel)

"Drawing from influences including The Stooges, hard edge goth, Adverts era Brit Punk and Industrial, 13th Sky deliver music that is pounding yet catchy"
-Jaime Pina (ex Christian Death 1334 / 45 Grave)