Kai Kaldro
- Music Department
- Director
- Actor
Kai Kaldro is a heavy metal singer-songwriter, actor, and filmmaker from New York City. Musically, he embodies a dark industrial sound with a sensuous horror-themed shock rock presence and lyrics that demonically satirize film noir and Golden Age Hollywood, particularly Alfred Hitchcock's films. As a performer, Kaldro is often noted for the androgynous duality of soft feminine features and physicality (frequently emphasized by cross dressing) versus murky metallic baritone-bass vocals, akin to that of Rob Zombie.
Kaldro's debut single Post Coital, Pre Mortem went live in 2023 with an insatiable music video to boot, and is also soon to be heard in the soundtrack Desert Fiends. An ensemble slasher starring Bai Ling, Eric Roberts, Tom Arnold, Lorelei Linklater, Scout Taylor Compton, Spencer Breslin, amongst many others. Post Coital, Pre Mortem is title track from the shock rock newcomers' eponymous upcoming LP, which was followed by a sophomore single Redial For Remnants, further compounded by His Girl Friday The 13th.
Cinematically, Kaldro was mentored by his late great production sound mixer M Wolf Snyder (1985-2021), known for running sound on 2021 best picture winner Nomadland, starring Frances McDormand. Kaldro's dark sci-fi action short Dissolved Girl was one of Wolf's final pictures, who was then honored by McDormand and director Chloe Zhao at the 2021 Oscars. At age 19, Kaldro was solidified as one of, if not the youngest film director to have a best picture winning crew member enlisted on his own production.
Upon turning 22 years old in 2023, Kaldro deemed it his rite-of-passage after a confusing start to his adult life and career during the covid-pandemic to reinvent himself artistically, physically, and spiritually. Once a soft spoken mild-mannered kid who stayed behind the camera, he is now a loud lewd and crude walking vision board for all things horror, gothic, and rock n roll, with the subtly of a sledgehammer and zero compunction, taking similar cues from Alice Cooper and Marilyn Manson. A transformation that quickly earned his debut single a spot on the Desert Fiends soundtracks and led to his being cast in several upcoming promising indie slasher films Skate To Hell, The Farmhouse Murders, and Final Summer 2, where his music will also be heard prominently. A win-win, sin-sin.
Whilst recording the album, shooting music videos, a full-length upgrade of Kaldro's 2019 short Sinner's Lullaby is now in production. Attached as composers are Kim & Kathryn Kluge, the master maestros behind Martin Scorsese's religious epic Silence (2016), solidifying Kaldro's musically hellbent gothic neo-noir as his feature debut.
Kaldro's debut single Post Coital, Pre Mortem went live in 2023 with an insatiable music video to boot, and is also soon to be heard in the soundtrack Desert Fiends. An ensemble slasher starring Bai Ling, Eric Roberts, Tom Arnold, Lorelei Linklater, Scout Taylor Compton, Spencer Breslin, amongst many others. Post Coital, Pre Mortem is title track from the shock rock newcomers' eponymous upcoming LP, which was followed by a sophomore single Redial For Remnants, further compounded by His Girl Friday The 13th.
Cinematically, Kaldro was mentored by his late great production sound mixer M Wolf Snyder (1985-2021), known for running sound on 2021 best picture winner Nomadland, starring Frances McDormand. Kaldro's dark sci-fi action short Dissolved Girl was one of Wolf's final pictures, who was then honored by McDormand and director Chloe Zhao at the 2021 Oscars. At age 19, Kaldro was solidified as one of, if not the youngest film director to have a best picture winning crew member enlisted on his own production.
Upon turning 22 years old in 2023, Kaldro deemed it his rite-of-passage after a confusing start to his adult life and career during the covid-pandemic to reinvent himself artistically, physically, and spiritually. Once a soft spoken mild-mannered kid who stayed behind the camera, he is now a loud lewd and crude walking vision board for all things horror, gothic, and rock n roll, with the subtly of a sledgehammer and zero compunction, taking similar cues from Alice Cooper and Marilyn Manson. A transformation that quickly earned his debut single a spot on the Desert Fiends soundtracks and led to his being cast in several upcoming promising indie slasher films Skate To Hell, The Farmhouse Murders, and Final Summer 2, where his music will also be heard prominently. A win-win, sin-sin.
Whilst recording the album, shooting music videos, a full-length upgrade of Kaldro's 2019 short Sinner's Lullaby is now in production. Attached as composers are Kim & Kathryn Kluge, the master maestros behind Martin Scorsese's religious epic Silence (2016), solidifying Kaldro's musically hellbent gothic neo-noir as his feature debut.