BEFORE HE FOUND international fame as the gravel-throated frontman of Murderdolls, Wednesday 13 was just Joseph Poole, an aspiring musician still living at home with his parents in the late 90s. Granted, at night he’d dress up and front cult horror-punk crew Frankenstein Drag Queens From Planet 13, but, a couple of albums in, fame hadn’t come knocking and he was still writing most of his songs from his childhood bedroom.
“My guitar was just sat in the corner, and that’s where most of my songs for Frankenstein Drag Queens were written,” he recalls. “We were a punk band, but I always loved a little element of metal. White Zombie, Pantera, Megadeth, Anthrax… so I was always trying to come up with something a little heavier. I remember worrying that one song sounded too much like It was meansounding, and I’m looking around my room and see my Frankenstein poster. I instinctively went, ‘Hey Frankenstein, what’s on your
