Tokyo Sex Destruction is Soulpunk, Soul with influences as MC5, Stooges and the Sonics. Heavy but with and enormous swing thing in it and psychedelic as the worst hippie in his young years. Go and see this band. After all they don't have their live reputation for sitting behind their TV.
Tokyo Sex Destruction is completely sincere. Despite wielding a near perfect band name for a group of arch ironists -- really, how much further can you deconstruct rock and roll beyond exoticism, sex, and violence -- Tokyo Sex Destruction is not here to win you over with a sly smile or bemused aloofness. Tokyo Sex Destruction means business. Tokyo Sex Destruction is serious about its love for '60s radical politics, and this time out it's proving it's serious about its love for '60s music.
The band is known by its productivity, since 2002 they have played more than 100 times per year, released three albums and 2 EP’s. They’re known across Europe, where they’ve become a referent of the European rock music. Although they come from Spain, they have had a huge success in France.
Their first album was “Le Red Soul Communitee (10 points program)” in 2002. An electric work, where a garage-punk burst full of social proclams and an insolite audacity, which situated them overnight amongst the most attractive proposals of the Spanish musical panorama. This fact was determining for them, and they decided to dedicate themselves exclusively to the music. Later they released a vinil single, and in 2003 the EP “The big red box for the syndicate of emotions”, edited also in Germany by Trans Solar.
In 2004 they released the splendid album “Black noise is the new sound”, which untied a huge succes in France. Almost with no time between, in 2005 they released another disk, where they garage-punk evolved and got a bit darker, with some soul influences, and some psychodelic point, getting more interesting every time.
In 2004 and after only a few showcases, Driving Dead Girl is short-listed and takes part in the International Dour Festival, but this was only the first step! Following their forerunners’ example, the quartet played several first-parts such as The Rakes, Queen Adreena, Radio4, Tokyo Sex Destruction, Black Angels and many others. Meanwhile, they also recorded a first album: "50,000 Dead Girls Can't be Wrong". Comprising a short selection of only 7 titles, it is recorded under live conditions and mixed in two months fulfilling the then low-end and garage-rock attitude that animated the group.
At this time, Driving Dead Girl also had an exclusive recording contract with “BANG!” which gave them the opportunity to perform all around Belgium and from time to time in France. Unfortunately the then tense atmosphere soon disrupted the shaky organization and both J-F Hermand and André Diaz left the group.
Four years later, after several changes in the band line-up and a neared dead-end, the group finally stabilized. Newcomers Vincenzo Capizzi (drummer) and Dan Diaz (bass player) smashed in, bringing by this very fact a new balance and a new vision to the project. The news spread like a thunderbolt and proposals for concerts and records broke surface again. The band was back on line and the nouveau quartet premièred Black Rebel Motorcycle Club, The Black Angels and Lords Of Altamont . This definitely cemented their brand new stage reputation.
More recently, in January 2010, Driving Dead Girl started the realization of their second album: « Don’t Give a Damn about bad Reputation”. In only 10 titles, the quartet enjoyed renewed success and confirmed their propensity to play and perform with a brutal energy coping with an original rock musical style wherein cinematographic and literary influences, stamped with broken-hearted sadness and despair, sometimes gave in to alcohol abuse, psyched madness and mal-être.