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Miss Autopsy
Miss Autopsy is singer/guitarist Steve Beyerink and whoever else he can find to play with him, oftentimes nobody. He began playing shows and releasing albums in 2003, when "Ruhr", his debut of a few years' worth of home recordings, came out. He played a few scattered shows over the next two years, performing solo while a drum machine ran percussion loops through the PA. His first proper studio album was 2005's Sweet Killers. Jarring loud guitar/drum machine songs were sequenced right alongside minimal, quiet ones. After the recording sessions for The Hill, which was tracked in December 2006 but not released until the summer of 2008, he relocated to Chicago from his hometown of Des Moines, Iowa. On The Hill, the loud guitars are mostly abandoned for a clearer version of dark pop, and synths are used in subtle and not-so-subtle ways.