Biography
A few years after White Zombie unceremoniously let her go, New York City underground veteran Sean Yseult, handling piano and bass, started working with Rik Slave, one-time frontman of Man Scouts of America. When the pair moved to New Orleans at the close of 2002, those sessions laid the groundwork for Rock City Morgue. Enlisting local musicians Johnny Brashear on guitar and Keith Hajjar on drums, the group filtered the gritty Lower East Side sensibilities they had absorbed through the humid, decaying atmosphere of their adopted bayou home, ultimately shaping a distinctive gothic-rock style laced with humor. That playful streak surfaced clearly on the 2003 EP Some Ghouls, a send-up of the Rolling Stones’ Some Girls that swapped the original female portraits for images of classic horror icons such as Dracula and Wolfman. For their debut full-length, 2005’s Dead Man’s Song, Rock City Morgue returned to their Manhattan origins by enlisting producer Daniel Rey, known for his work with the Ramones and Iggy Pop, along with former White Zombie guitarist J. Yuenger.
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