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A veteran of the New England music scene for over a decade, Otto Kinzel has recorded and toured nonstop with several Industrial and Metal bands from the region. Not only is he an experienced guitar player, but also has worked as a front man and lead vocalist; a drum machine and sequencer programmer; a producer of several recordings; and the owner and operator of Bluntface Records, which serves as Otto's main forum for releasing his own music.
He has been a member of: *Wormdr1v3 (vocals/samples/producer), *Evil Sex Party (vocals/programming/samples/guitar/etc.), *Burden of Liberty (guitar/co-lead vocalist/producer), *Change of Season (rhythm guitar), and *The Isolated Sequence (guitar/programming/vocals). In 2009 Otto formed his new project, Chemical Distance, inspired by his love of Industrial/Electronic based music, but with a much more sinister edge. Chemical Distance released the full-length debut album The Pain & The Progress in March of 2010, with Kinzel not only playing most of the instruments in studio but also producing the album as well. Chemical Distance spent the entire year promoting The Pain & The Progress relentlessly. 2011 will see Otto join veteran Boston-based band Lucretia’s Daggers, as he will take over guitar and programming duties, in addition to producing their new studio effort.
2011 will also see the release of Otto Kinzel's first true solo album; a concept album that will be centered around the Zodiac Killer and the public fear surrounding the Bay Area in the late 1960's/early 70's. "I always loved bands like Ministry, KMFDM, Atari teenage Riot, My Life with the Thrill Kill Kult... the fusion of drum machines and sequencers with live musicianship has fascinated me since I first got Ministry's A Mind Is a Terrible Thing to Taste. I hope to release something that does the genre proud and hopefully stake at least a small claim in a scene that has given so much to me..." “..BUT I also love bands like Mr. Bungle, The Dillinger Escape Plan and Fu Manchu as much as the bands listed above, and have other material written and recorded to reflect those influences. My hope is for each CD to do well and to continue to give me an avenue to release other recordings. I get really bored playing just one type of music. I need to jump around and keep things fresh. So while making one or two albums of industrial music is fun, I would get tired really quick if I had to stick to that style for the rest of my life". |
