page_title: Vampire Rodents
section_title: Vocals and lyrics
hierarchical_section_title: Vampire Rodents / Musical style / Vocals and lyrics
caption_attribution_description: English: Battery's Lead Vocalist Maria Azevedo
context_page_description: Vampire Rodents was the name of a sound collage and experimental music ensemble based out of Phoenix, Arizona, although its core members originally came from Canada. The creative nucleus of the project comprised vocalist and composer Daniel Vahnke and keyboardist Victor Wulf. Daniel Vahnke was primarily influenced by 20th-century classical and avant-garde music, whereas Wulf drew from new age, ambient and synth-driven pop music. Their work also dabbled in big band, bebop, musique concrète, industrial, electro, Indian classical and Greek music.
  Vampire Rodents debuted with War Music, an album that showcased their knack for dark humor and experimentation with the pop and industrial music format. Premonition, recorded with violinist and cellist Andrea Akastia, revealed the band's artistic ambitious and interest in electroacoustic and ambient music. Considered by some to be the group's magnum opus, Lullaby Land further expanded the sound with the inclusion of additional musicians, house beats, swing rhythms and world music.
context_section_description: Based on A Modest Proposal, "Abortion Clinic Deli" is one of their more raunchy songs, with lyrics championing the consuming of aborted fetuses for both protein and pleasure. Songs like "Dumme Weisse Menschen", which translates to "stupid white people", critique of Western culture while "Tatoo" is critical of hollow vogues. The collaborating artists who contributed the vocals to songs on Lullaby Land, Clockseed and Gravity's Rim also penned their own lyrics. For example, Jared Hendrickson's "Low Orbit" is about two of his deceased friends appearing to him in his sleep and "Revisioned" by Sounds of Mass Production concerns systemic oppression at the hands of the government and establishment.
caption: Maria Azevedo of Battery provided vocals for several songs on Clockseed and Gravity's Rim.
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