The Creepy Crawlers visited WYSO for a live studio session on Kaleidoscope and talked with music director Juliet Fromholt about their latest projects and upcoming performances.
"We've been working hard to get back on our feet. We kind of took a little bit of time off to focus on some behind the scenes things with the band, building some new stuff and working on a new album," said Rev. Chad Wells (guitar/vocals). "We had a thing kind of come up where we were able to do something that was kind of a lifelong dream for a couple of us, which was to do a situation comedy. So we have started filming episodes for a Monkees-style horror comedy."
The debut of The Creepy Crawlers' eponymous TV show is available now on YouTube.
"There's a lot of people that are taking themselves really seriously right now, and especially in our kind of music when you're heavier and darker and stuff. There's a lotta hateful people out there and a lotta bad stuff, and we don't wanna add to that. Our aggressive aggression and gory horror thing is about sort of a fantastical letting off steam kind of thing, and it's about fun more than it is about anything else," said Wells.
The band and its label, HorrorShock Records, are helping spread fun with a spooky twist throughout southwest Ohio with the upcoming Halfway to Halloween Fest on April 26 at Yellow Cab Tavern. The event will feature horror, punk and metal bands performing alongside the Creepy Crawlers, including The Transylvania Hellhounds, Lurking Corpses, and Dayton's own The Lollipop Kids.
"We're like the people who say, what if we did this thing? And we all work as a really good team for having strengths and weaknesses and creativities in different areas," said Scarika Watson (vocals).
"I think we all have the thing of, you know, kind of coming from an underdog sort of a background. Like we weren't born to be a part of a scene or to exist in with the flock in any kind of way. But we found each other. So, you know, when you kind of are an underdog kind of a character and you're doing your own thing and you are not dressing like everybody else and cutting your hair like everybody else and using the same instruments as everybody else and all that kind of stuff, you just have to make your own show," said Wells. "You build your own path if there's no path in front of you. Then you get out your machete, and you start carving a path. I think that's how all of us are, you know, and it's not all...some of us have parents that stay together and some of us don't. It's not one thing that sort of defines it, but we found a way to get in with these like-minded friends and make it work."
