Eerie Von: Suicide Girls interview

Eerie Von is best known as musician as bass player and founding member of Samhain and Danzig, two bands founded by his old friend Glenn Danzig, who taught him to play the bass. Since leaving Danzig, he’s released five albums under his own name most recently last fall’s “Kinda Country” in addition to painting “Fiend art,” hundreds of paintings that exhibit much the same sensibility of his recordings.

He’s also been a prolific photographer for decades. His first photoshoot was in high school when he photographed the band The Misfits. The Misfits were never a huge band and were together only a few years, but they were influential, straddling horror metal and punk rock and creating a new sound.

“Misery Obscura” is Von’s first book, a collection of three decades of photographs of the bands he was in, the musicians he knew and a great look at the music scene. We talked with him recently about the book...

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