Babylon Whores

It's not often that a band willingly attaches a category to its music, but Babylon Whores' dubbing itself "death rock" was more than appropriate. Inspired by Glenn Danzig (specifically, the singer's post-Misfits punk metal outfit Samhain), Aleister Crowley, and all aspects of the occult, singer Ike Vil and guitarist Ewo Meichem assembled Babylon Whores in Helsinki, Finland, with one main intent: "Raise Hell, or lower the heavens at least." Vil and Meichem would eventually recruit guitarist Jussi Kottinen and drummer Pete Liha for the recording of the Devil's Meat 7" (100 of wh...