Location: Detroit, Michigan
Active: -2008
Based in Detroit, Shock Therapy was a punk band that embraced the use of drum machines and synthesizers early on, in the formative days of industrial music, particularly in North America and evolving from punk music. Their often dark themes of loneliness, detachment and despair had a distinct appeal to the gothic and dark music world, particularly in Germany and Europe, where they toured frequently. Member Cliff Hill would play for a time with German gothic rock band Angina Pectoris.
Frontman and nucleus Itchy was the primary and sometimes only member; he passed away in 2008. Before Shock Therapy, he was in The Gerbils, and also a band called Life In Death. In 1994, German film director collaborated with Itchy to direct the music video for “I Can’t Let Go”.
Related: Detroit
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