Abney Park

[Kashoku]

Anyone a fan of these guys? I heard them at Dragon*Con and fell in love!



Abney Park is a band based in Seattle that mixes elements of industrial dance, world music, and steampunk influenced lyrics in their work. Their name comes from Abney Park Cemetery in London (UK). Formerly a goth band, Abney Park has transformed their look and sound and has come to be known by some as the "quintessential" steampunk band.

In early 2006, Abney Park transformed themselves from a largely goth industrial band into a steampunk band. As part of that transformation, Abney Park invented fictional identities of themselves.[2] Since steampunk is largely derived from science fiction and fantasy literature, the band also created a fictional backstory to explain the shake-up in membership and who they were now, and to set a stage for their new music. According to that story, the band's plane collided with a time-travelling dirigible called the Ophelia—said to have been created by a Dr. Leguminous Calgori (presumably a reference to the 1920 silent film, The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari)—in a freak storm. The band commandeered the vessel, deciding to become airship pirates, and formed a new band from the surviving members of the crash. Much of their music since that time has been based around this fictional backstory.

End of Days


Airship Pirates


Too Far to Turn Back

[tehxiinae]

I was excited to see this posted here! I live in the Seattle area, so I've seen them before I even have friends who kinda "know" them.

[Zahara]

They're such an awesome band! My brother in law made a doll of the lead singer and it was featured on their interview with MTV.

[Kashoku]

Zahara, that's awesome!!! Do you have a picture?!

[Zahara]

I'll definitely ask my brother in law for the picture--it looks so much like him!

[Zahara]

Ok, I found some pictures of the doll my brother made, but I have no idea how to post pictures!