Interview with a Vampyre
Chyanne Lynne has only bitten one of the band’s fans
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Vampyre
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Free. Sundown (9 p.m.). Sat., Aug. 22. Hooters, 885 Joe Frank Harris Parkway, Cartersville. 770-607-9474. www.hooters.com.-
Vampires walk among us right now in Atlanta.-
At least that’s what guitarist/vocalist Nosferatu (née Scott Lewanowicz) and drummer/vocalist Chyanne Lynne of the goth/metal/industrial band Vampyre would have us believe. Strangely enough, frontman Nosferatu hesitates to fully disclose his vampiric ways, but his scantily clad counterpart Lynne makes no bones about it. &-;It’s true, I am a living, breathing vampire and I don’t care who knows,” she declares. &-;I am what I am and if you don’t like it, then it’s just like my song says, ‘Fuck You’!”-
The song she invokes is a cathartic little ditty that Lynne wrote while stewing in a jail cell after being arrested for biting an overzealous fan - an incident over which she is still attending anger management classes. But as a mantra, &-;Fuck You” typifies the group’s sound, carried out in other such songs as &-;Light It Up,” &-;Memories” and &-;Real Vampyres.” Their sound is a lo-fi concoction of distorted, Ibanez guitars, keyboards and drums crunching out dark riffs in a wash of watered-down industrial rock. When citing influences, 29-year-old Lynne, who has been playing drums since she was 5, drops the names of everyone from Rush’s drummer Neil Peart to Nine Inch Nails to Pantera. But her No. 1 all-time favorite musician is Ozzy Osbourne. &-;I love the fact that he bites, too!” she giggles.-
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