Kai Kaldro Releases Music Video for New Single “His Girl Friday The 13th”

Spawned in New York City, Kai Kaldro is equal parts glam and gothic. He embodies a futuristic industrial sound yet a timelessly sexy film noir and horror-themed shock rock presence, which daringly amalgamates brutally honest social commentary. A Jekyll & Hyde of androgyny versus gnarly metal vocals. It’s Avant-garde, yet he delivers on fun stadium-tier rock. Imagine if Sebastian Bach and Rob Zombie had a love baby, and Shirley Manson was the cool aunt, while Iggy Pop was the crazy uncle.

After a confusing start to his film career and adult life during the COVID-19 pandemic, Kaldro reinvented himself artistically. A once shy kid behind the camera turned into a walking vision board for all things horror, politically incorrect, and rock n’ roll. While many Generation Z-aged performers live in constant cultural paranoia, Kaldro is an old soul who says what he thinks and gives zero fucks about getting “cancelled” or harassed online.

In the vein of David Bowie’s Ziggy Stardust, fans quickly took to deeming Kaldro’s gender-bending and genre-bending alter ego… THE DAME OF THE DEAD.

A transformation that quickly got Kaldro onto the stage at iconic NYC venues like Lucky 13 Saloon and slashed his music into the soundtracks of upcoming all-star cast horror films, such as The Farmhouse Murders (starring Eric Roberts, Larry Hankin), with Kaldro in the supporting cast.

A win-win, sin-sin!

Written, directed, and edited by Kai Kaldro himself, the music video for “His Girl Friday The 13th,” the leading single from DAME OF THE DEAD, is an epic concept-heavy music video bordering into short film territory. Running at 13 minutes, imagine if the video for Michael Jackson’s “Thriller” had a film noir-themed industrial metal love baby, influenced by Alfred Hitchcock as it crash landed in The Crow and Kill Bill.

Kaldro’s masterpiece walks the rare tonal line of being spooky popcorn fun for horror hounds and metalheads, whilst also having some brains, balls, and being grounded in our current reality with having real-world relevance and resonance, which is ever present even in the semi-period 1940s film noir setting a la Tim Burton’s Batman (1989).

Kai Kaldro “His Girl Friday The 13th” single artwork

The story concerns Kaldro’s cross-dressing alter ego, THE DAME OF THE DEAD. Imagine a tricker vigilante bastard child of Norman Bates from Psycho and Alice Cooper, who weaponizes his natural androgyny, assuming the identity of a beautiful blonde lounge singer as a honey trap to sucker in private detectives who have wrongfully been acquitted of murder and rape charges, for Kaldro to then slash his own brand of justice upon.

The final name on his kill list is a private detective (Bill Draper) who is partnered with the most powerful producer in all of Hollywood (Ronald Black), who wins Nobel prizes despite being a serial rapist.