20 and featuring goth icons KMFDM, along with new dancefloor favorite Terminalhead - and sophomore album “Zerospace” slated for Feb. Yet Kidney Thieves have expanded their sphere of influence in order to defy simple categorization, with an EP of remixes titled “Phi in the Sky” - issued Nov. An early, unabashedly titled EP, “S+M (A Love Story),” along with a debut album, “Trickster” (released in 1998 on the now-defunct Push Records), and several songs appearing on compilations and soundtracks (a stark cover of Patsy Cline’s “Crazy” surfaced on the “Bride of Chucky” soundtrack) all attest to a deep admiration of such industrial progenitors as Nine Inch Nails and Ministry. The Kidney Thieves have compensated for their dearth of live performances with a small yet revered collection of recorded material. “The shortest song we’ve ever done took seven days, while another song could take a minimum of three weeks in the studio.” “It takes such a long time to make some of the songs,” Somers admits. Dominguez considers it essential for a band to devote strict attention to one project at any given time, and thus far the Kidney Thieves’ main occupation has been honing and perfecting their craft at Somer’s home studio. When Somers and Dominguez first met through a mutual friend and formed the band as a studio project in late 1997, they didn’t consider the traditional route of practicing, recording, and eventual touring as the necessary ingredients to being a successful act. Hopefully, it’s plastic rather than glass thrown at us,” she jokes.

“I’m looking forward to touring, but I’m looking at this as an earn-our-stripes/get-our-feet-wet tour. “We have to do all of our heavy songs, for sure,” Dominguez admits. Aside from this singular show, held at L.A.’s Viper Room, they have not played live since May 2000 - yet both Somers and Dominguez are more concerned with the reactions of overzealous metal fans rather than the effects of their self-imposed cloistering.

The Los Angeles-based, industrial-tinged Kidney Thieves aren’t sure what to expect when they hit the road for a five-day tour of the Northwest with Biohazard this month.Ĭore members Bruce Somers (multi-instrumentalist/producer) and Free Dominguez (vocalist/lyricist) have only one October performance under their belts this year since enlisting Moni Scaria (guitar), Christian Dorris (drums), and Sean Sellers (bass) in September.

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