DECADENCE EBM AND UNDERGROUND MUSIC.: BATZ WITHOUT FLESH

Was a music project from Newark, Delaware.

Biography

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Batz Without Flesh was founded in 1986 by Claude S. Willey Jr. (vocals, synthesizer, guitar), John Dugan (vocals, horn, synthesizer) and John Knetz alias Sloth (guitar, effects and samplers)
With their mixture of Electrowave and EBM, they were particularly successful in the early 1990s and landed some underground hits with songs like Futureshock, Retention, Auto-Suggestion, 21-375 or Avalanche. Batz Without Flesh themselves described their style as "Angry Hard Beat Electro-Punk."
Electronic and industrial icons such as Throbbing Gristle, Suicide, Clock DVA, The Human League and Portion Control served as models. After the debut EP Batz Without Flesh, released in 1987, John Dugan left the band. The 1989 album A Million Bricks was played by Claude Willey and John Knetz with the help of the guest musician Vinnie Spit alias SPIT (bass, drums).
A year later also, 'Sloth' left the project and devoted to the rock band Zen Guerrilla. The third publication No Memory was developed by Willey and SPIT. In 1992, this was the last album released. Claude S. Willey then founded the band Exterior Mirror and released Batz Without Flesh.

Name

The name "Batz Without Flesh" has always been misinterpreted as "bats without meat", which often pushed the group into the gothic environment. What was meant here, however, was actually a fight on the mental level (Battles Without Flesh)