When AlienSPagan was eight years old, he stood at his uncle’s burial in France, surrounded by sorrow. But instead of fear, he felt a sense of wonder. Across the cemetery, a young gothic woman lay sprawled on a grave, reading a book as if it were the most natural thing in the world.

“When I was young, the first image gothic people had was of the gothic girl in the cemetery,” he says. “When I saw the gothic girl lying on a grave, reading a book, it was so beautiful and peaceful. I kept this in mind, and it’s a cool name.”

That vision became the seed of The Cemetary Girlz, the band AlienSPagan founded in 2006. For nearly 20 years, its music has carried the atmosphere of that moment—eerie, melancholic, but strangely comforting.

On Sat/13, when The Cemetary Girlz step onto the stage of DNA L

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