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Stephen Hill

"We thought we were on the brink of breaking technology. It seemed like we did something futuristic at the time." Slipknot, zombies and a three year old girl's approval: how horror punk prince Wednesday 13 built a career beyond Murderdolls

Wednesday 13 in 2005.

When you’ve been toiling in the underground circuit for years, desperately trying to make your rock star dreams come true, and then it finally happens for you, the last thing you want is for it all to be snatched away within a year. But that’s the situation that Wednesday 13 found himself in when touring for the Murderdolls' hugely successful breakthrough 2002 album, Beyond The Valley Of The Murderdolls, wrapped up.

“I was nervous, I was excited, I didn’t really know what to do,” Wednesday recalls. “I knew that I definitely didn’t want to go back to my day job though. I knew 100% I was going to do everything I could not to do that.”

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