Biography
Metropolis Records recording artists NOIR is the latest project featuring Athan Maroulis of Spahn Ranch and Black Tape For A Blue Girl.
The voice of Athan Maroulis will always be linked to the seminal Los Angeles based trio Spahn Ranch, a band that pounded the ’90s industrial scene with an audacious mix of EBM and Electro flavored Synth Pop fused with an atmospheric menacing pall of Goth. To this day, a number of Spahn Ranch songs like “Vortex” and “Heretic’s Fork” still pack dark dance floors around the globe. In the aftermath of Spahn Ranch, Maroulis returned to his native New York City where he decidedly took a decade long break from performing. There, he produced reissues of vintage 1930s and 1940s jazz and blues music while working behind the scenes advising a number of Goth and industrial bands. In those years, Maroulis did on occasion guest on albums by Razed In Black as well as Black Tape For A Blue Girl. The latter he ed on a full-time basis in 2009, cutting an album while also completing tours both here and abroad highlighted by a headlining date at the Leipzig Opera House for Wave-Gotik-Treffen Festival in 2011.
The voice of Athan Maroulis will always be linked to the seminal Los Angeles based trio Spahn Ranch, a band that pounded the ’90s industrial scene with an audacious mix of EBM and Electro flavored Synth Pop fused with an atmospheric menacing pall of Goth. To this day, a number of Spahn Ranch songs like “Vortex” and “Heretic’s Fork” still pack dark dance floors around the globe. In the aftermath of Spahn Ranch, Maroulis returned to his native New York City where he decidedly took a decade long break from performing. There, he produced reissues of vintage 1930s and 1940s jazz and blues music while working behind the scenes advising a number of Goth and industrial bands. In those years, Maroulis did on occasion guest on albums by Razed In Black as well as Black Tape For A Blue Girl. The latter he ed on a full-time basis in 2009, cutting an album while also completing tours both here and abroad highlighted by a headlining date at the Leipzig Opera House for Wave-Gotik-Treffen Festival in 2011.
