DOOMCUPCAKE DROPS ‘PATIENT 25’ VIDEO, FIRST ALBUM COMING BY HALLOWEEN

Local up and coming soft metal-90s alternative revival band releases their first official music video on Friday the 13th 2023 ahead of their new album “The Grippy Socks Hotel” set to drop on October 30.

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Still from “Patient 25” music video. Image provided

The Utah music community is liking the sweet “soft ass metal” taste of newly-formed band Doomcupcake at their enigmatic live shows, gripping crowds all over Northern Utah. A special treat was handed to fans today on Friday the 13th—the official music video for “Patient 25”— a track off their anticipated first album “The Grippy Socks Hotel” to be released on October 30. The single “Blood, Bath & Beyond,” currently streaming since its 2022 release, will be on the new album along with six other new recordings.

The four-piece 90s alternative revival formed by multi-instrumentalist Zaza Historia VanDyke (lead vocalist and composer) also includes Cashel Barnett (drums/percussion), Frederick Thorne- (bass/decorum), and “Dave” Crespo (master of tones/guitar). All the band members are from the Salt Lake City-Ogden area.

DOOMCUPCAKE band. Image provided

“The Grippy Socks Hotel” was recorded by Michael Sasich at Man Vs Music in Salt Lake City. The “Patient 25” official music video was filmed at Salt Lake Acting Company by Brian Bingham, lights by David Workman and Music by Doomcupcake. Video post production by Frederick Thorne and Zaza Historia VanDyke.

‘PATIENT 25’ (MIRRORS) VIDEO

The video features a mirror and a lone dancer (Brina Serassio) moving slowly in red and black lighting, embodying the band’s haunting headbanger.

“Doomcupcake packs the heavy riffs you loved if you went to high school in the early 2000s with the poppy ‘ear-worm’ melodies that haunt the radio, and lyrics that express the oppression, mental health struggles, and fearlessness that their singer walks with everyday,” says Doomcupcake. “If you can’t find something within Zaza’s lyrics that you identify with you can at least head bang along, because Doomcupcake hits HARD.”

Stay updated at doomcupcake.com, @doomcupcake on Facebook, Instagram, and YouTube.

Debut Doomcupcake album coming October 30. Image provided

UPCOMING SHOWS

October 13: Lighthouse Lounge, 113 Historic 25th Street, Ogden, 9 p.m. $10

October 20-21: The Rooster Moto Festival, Jenkstar Ranch, 1111 Tusher Canyon Rd, Green River, Friday, Oct. 20, 2023 12:00 p.m. to Sunday, Oct. 22, 10:30 p.m., $50+

November 30: Metro Music Hall, 615 W 100 S, Salt Lake City, more information TBA

Deann Armes

Deann Armes is a journalist, magazine editor, and business manager who relocated to Ogden from Salt Lake in 2015. After a decade of freelance writing for local publications—Salt Lake City Weekly, Utah Stories, Indie Ogden, Standard-Examiner—Deann created The Ogdenite to help locals and visitors find things to do and encourage more support for small businesses, artists and musicians.

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