Celebrating 30 Year Anniversary of Kiss the Goat the second studio album by The Electric Hellfire Club on Cleopatra Records 1995
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Thomas Thorn is the founding member and frontman of The Electric Hellfire Club (EHC), an industrial/metal/rock band that emerged in the early 1990s. Before starting EHC, Thorn was involved with My Life With The Thrill Kill Kult, another industrial band, during their early years. He left them around 1989–1990.
Thorn founded the band The Electric Hellfire Club in 1991 with Shane Lassen (Rev. Dr. Luv) and guitarist Ronny Valeo of Screamer. During a 1996 tour with Boyd Rice, Rice introduced Thorn to Church of Satan founder, Anton LaVey. During their meeting, he was ordained a priest in the church by LaVey. Thorn later wrote a eulogy of LaVey following the latter’s death in 1997, which appeared in the Church of Satan’s house organ The Black Flame. mixing industrial rock, metal, disco, and electronic influences with occult, Satanic, and pop culture themes.
Thorn often played with dark, provocative imagery—mixing references to Satanism, psychedelia, serial killers, and B-movie culture with a tongue-in-cheek, campy presentation.
Thorn himself is a mix of musician, provocateur, and occultist, and The Electric Hellfire Club became somewhat cult-famous in the goth/industrial underground for their blend of shock, satire, and heavy grooves.
Thomas Thorn has appeared in several issue of MK ULTRA Magazine over the years including the third issue with Gene Simmons of KISS in 1995 on the cover and as the cover story of the MK ULTRA One Year Anniversary Issue in 1996 as “BAND OF OUR YEAR”.
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