Genitorturers: Interview with lead vocals Gen

Genitorturers: The (M)Arc Of Gen
Interview conducted in October 2009
by Jackie Lee King, photo by Dan Locke


Billed as the sexiest band alive, the Genitortures have been feeding our need for sin since 1991. Now, with a new record "Blackheart Revolution," a new tour, and several delightful goodies, Gen sat down with Unrated Magazine to discuss what she's been up to for the past few years.

Jackie Lee King: It's been five years since the last record, so what how has your music developed during this time?

Gen: A lot of the elements that we were talking about, doing a record, writing a chapter in an ongoing saga of a storyline so once again, it's not just throw some music together it's tying in conceptual elements of how we're going to tell the story of the evolution of my character which started in "120 Days," created "Sin City," delved into "Machine Love," proclaimed "Flesh is the Law" for all the world to see. Now in "Blackheart Revolution" my character is kind of-- and also see on "Flesh is the Law" we kind of dealt with the fact that I was starting to become persecuted for being an outspoken creator of this realm of "Sin City." The powers that be don't like that.

JLK: Yeah well and it seems that way because the cover art it seems like you're sort of like this Joan of Arc piercing your own heart.

Gen: Gen of Arc. Absolutely. It's a strong statement and the artwork does sum it up because of the fact that we've evolved to the point where the piercing is now into our soul-- that's the music-- and kind of showing once again a leadership of the vocals and the music is extremely leading. It's not like background music. There's no B-sides. Every single song is making a very strong statement. Once again, this is a record that's like "Welcome to My Nightmare." It's meant to be listened to from start to finish. It's meant to be digested as a body of work and not like oh here's this one song. Because if you hear one song you're not going to remotely understand the record. And it's funny because you've heard "Devil in a Bottle" and "Cum Junkie" and the funny thing is like there's so much diversity on the record when it comes to where we take you musically speaking and maybe cross-genre speaking, and it all ties in with the strength and aggression and there's a definite like meanness that comes out too.

JLK: Yeah I definitely liked where it was going. I went back and listened to all your CDs again last night and just there's something that I'm not getting with the two songs that I've heard and I think I need the rest of the album to fill in the blanks because it seems like those two songs are leading from something or to something.

Gen: That is correct.

JLK: I'm like I want the album before I talk to Gen. I want to actually sound like I know what I'm talking about.

Gen: Yeah, it's very-- the whole project works together and really puts forth the next chapter to understand where we've evolved.

- Read the full interview with Gen of the Genitorturers at UnRatedMagazine.com