![]() ![]() In 2005, Pistor switched to guitar and drummer Michael Ferrara and bassist Josh Soto joined the group. The Sixth Chamber was at the forefront of the dark psychedelic resurgence that began to emerge in the mid-2000s but kept a hard rock edge. ![]() ![]() The album remained unreleased until 2013. Pistor finished the mixdown of the debut album Crippled Souls with the help of first wave punk rock producer Geza X (producer of The Germs, Black Flag, Dead Kennedys, Meredith Brooks). This lineup played four back to back nights at the 2004 Drop Dead Festival, an international gothic rock festival in New York City spread across the Knitting Factory and CBGBs. Palo Henderson replaced Sevan Kand on guitar to finish the recording. By the time Pistor had finished recording the last of the vocals in 2004, the lineup had split. The band’s sound became more of a metallic-tinged death rock and the tracks for the first album Crippled Souls were laid down in the studio. The Sixth Chamber played regularly at Los Angeles nightclub staples such as the Knitting Factory and Spaceland during this period. Sevan Kand was notable in the gothic rock scene as his voice was used on a number of Christian Death albums as a small child. The first consistently gigging lineup of The Sixth Chamber was formed in 2003 with Sevan Kand added as a guitarist and vocalist and Joel Gausten added on drums. In September 2002, The Sixth Chamber played its first live shows live on KXLU 88.1 FM and at Westchester Grille opening for SST Records avant-garde punk veterans Saccharine Trust and Chuck Dukowski of Black Flag fame. Finished by early 2003, these recordings were re-released in 2019 as the World of Wonders EP. The lineup for the first demos included Kjehl Johansen, guitarist of The Urinals/100 Flowers and guitarist Carlo Dean. Drums for the first demo were recorded by Pistor in a cave in New Jersey shortly before Pistor’s cross country move to Los Angeles. The Sixth Chamber was conceived as an experimental gothic rock band by Rahne Pistor in 2001, with Pistor on vocals and bass. Rahne Pistor began his foray into rock in 19 as a teen playing bass in the punk band The Undead, which was led by Bobby Steele, guitarist of The Misfits from 1978 to 1980. The band’s song “Something’s Going Wrong” was featured in the Lions Gate-distributed horror feature film Dance of the Dead directed by Gregg Bishop and its song “Jump Into the Flames” was featured in the Halloween party scene of the documentary Venice Beach in the Sixties: A Celebration of Creativity, directed by experimental 1960s psychedelic filmmaker Leland Auslender, which shows rare footage of Venice Beach Beatniks and acid takers in the mid’1960s. The Sixth Chamber was the last band managed by Bud Prager, executive producer and manager of Mountain, Megadeth, Foreigner, Type O Negative, Corrosion of Conformity, Jack Bruce, Bad Company and others, before his death in December of 2008. ~William Blake, “The Marriage of Heaven and Hell”Īs one of the first of the Black Sabbath and dark psychedelic-influenced wave of retro rock revival to emerge in the mid’-2000s, the band became known for it’s phantasmic lyrics and riffs and its rejection of the direction of popular influences and a longing for a return to the days when heavy rock ruled the charts. There they were received by Men who occupied the sixth chamber, and took the forms of books & were arranged in libraries.” “I was in a Printing house in Hell & saw the method in which knowledge is transmitted from generation to generation….In the fifth chamber were Unnamed forms, which cast the metals into the expanse. The band’s moniker was taken from a line in 18th century mystic William Blake’s book “The Marriage of Heaven and Hell”. The band is currently in production on its third full length album. The Sixth Chamber is an American acid goth rock band founded in 2001 by singer, guitarist, songwriter and band leader Rahne Pistor.
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