![]() ![]() All Kris knows for sure is that the night ended in a tragic accident, and that the legal nightmare that followed killed her music career for good. ![]() Kris herself isn’t sure exactly what happened there’s a hole in her memory that consumes several hours of what she calls Contract Night - the night which saw co-founder Terry Hunt present the band with contracts that transformed Dürt Würk into watered-down nü-metal while transforming its members into musicians-for-hire working for Terry instead of with Terry. The journey that follows is a familiar one: girl meets boy boy and girl form band band plays everything from dive bars to frat parties, building skill and a following along the way band makes it to the brink of success band collapses from the inside.Įxcept, that’s not quite what happened with Kris Pulaski’s band, Dürt Würk. When we first meet her, Kris Pulaski is a young girl struggling to coax heavy metal licks out of a cheap guitar. Leave it to Grady Hendrix, acclaimed author/historian of ’70s and ’80s horror fiction, to breathe new life into one of horror’s most well-worn tropes. ![]() It’s an idea that’s been mined by countless musicians and writers over the years, to varying degrees of success. The idea that rock ‘n roll is the Devil’s music is as old as a Robert Johnson blues riff. ![]()
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