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Not to be confused with the Tucson-based indie band of the same name, the Phantom Limbs are a Bay Area-based death rock band most influenced by early Christian Death's mix of thrashy, metallic punk and eerie, keyboard-driven goth rock, adding their own cabaret theater touch. Formed in the late '90s, the group featured lead vocalist Hopeless, keyboardist Stevenson Sedgwick, keyboardist/bassist Sköt B, guitarist Jason "Captain Phantom" Miller, and drummer Mike Klösoff; originally from Los Angeles, the group members relocated to Oakland and began touring up and down the West Coast. Jello Biafra signed them to his Alternative Tentacles label after catching one of their live shows, and the Phantom Limbs released their debut single, "Hot Knives and Hornets," in November 2000. After a split single with labelmates the Fleshies, the Phantom Limbs released their debut album, Applied Ignorance, in August 2001.
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The Phantom Limbs was a music group, formed in Oakland, California in 1999. They combined no wave, horror punk, deathrock, and goth to create a synthpunk musical style.
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Initially catching the attention of Sam Atakra from the underground punk label Atakra Productions in 1999, their first performance led to a promise from the label owner of relatively free rein in producing a 7" EP that eventually was released as the first on the Atakra indie label. Six months later, with a regional and locally well-known live act, they were picked up by Jello Biafra of Alternative Tentacles, who caught them at 924 Gilman Street and a notable show at San Francisco's now defunct Covered Wagon Saloon, wherein he declared them to be the strangest band he had ever witnessed at Gilman. Three U.S. tours and two European tours later, the Phantom Limbs played their final show with Vanishing in Berlin on 23 October 2004. The following year on Halloween they made the official announcement that The Phantom Limbs had disbanded. Some band members also formed Black Ice the same year as Phantom Limbs.