Feature Photo credit: Stephanie Cabral
FOUNDING BUTCHER BABIES VOCALIST CARLA HARVEY
RELEASES “SICK ONES” MUSIC VIDEO,
THE FIRST FROM HER UPCOMING PROJECT,
THE VIOLENT HOUR
WITH MUSIC BY ANTHRAX’S CHARLIE BENANTE
Today, Carla Harvey announces the first music video from her new project, The Violent Hour (Megaforce Records). The video script, written by Harvey and directed by Industrialism Films’ Vicente Cordero (Black Veil Brides, Kat Von D), sees Harvey portraying each of the video’s five personalities.
“While Sick Ones is about cutting toxic people out of your life—those who constantly devalue you —
I wanted to flip that narrative for the video,” said Harvey. “I’ve always been interested in the idea that sometimes, the most dangerous person to confront is yourself. The video explores what it means to face those darker versions of who we’ve been, and whether we can truly leave them behind… or, as the ending suggests, learn to coexist peacefully. Vicente took my vision and brought it to life. I came to him with a wild idea and no clue how to execute it—and we made it work! I loved getting a chance to play multiple larger-than-life characters.”
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Photo credit: Stephanie Cabral
ABOUT CARLA HARVEY:
Not many people have comic book author, embalmer, and musician on their resumes. Carla Harvey boasts all three and so much more. Carla was born and raised in Detroit, Michigan—a city known for its grit, resilience, and often deep divides. Navigating life as a bi-racial kid in a fractured environment wasn’t easy, but Carla found her escape in art, music, and self-expression. By day, she hustled, attending the prestigious College for Creative Studies alongside working odd jobs like perfume counter girl and gas station attendant, and by night, she was on stage with local bands, saving every dollar she could for a one-way trip to Los Angeles.
At twenty, she put all her belongings in her car and navigated from Detroit to Hollywood with a paper map. In LA, she landed acting roles on shows like Rules of Engagement, played in bands searching for her sound, and never stopped creating. But beyond the music was a driven academic. Carla had a deep love for science and eventually pursued a Bachelor of Mortuary Science (graduating as valedictorian) and a Master of Science in Thanatology. Carla became a licensed funeral director and embalmer and founded her own grief counseling service – all while touring the world extensively as a founding member of The Butcher Babies.
Today, In addition to her music career, Carla is a Grief Specialist for the innovative death care company ‘Parting Stone,’ that transforms cremated remains into environmentally-friendly stones that the departed’s family can hold, treasure and honor.
Beyond her professional life, Carla is a devoted collector of pop culture oddities: comics, wrestling figures, vintage Barbies, Elvira, the Incredible Hulk, and rock relics from her wildest nights in Hollywood. She still holds onto her Rainbow Bar and Grill drink tickets from the ’90s and a poker chip from Lemmy’s last birthday party. Her creative heroes—Russ Meyers, Robert Williams, Robert Crumb & Charles Bukowski—mirror her love of the bold and the raw.
To date, Carla has released six albums, multiple comic books and a 2014 novel, “Death and Other Dances.” But if you ask her…she’s still just a blue-collar kid from the Midwest with big dreams.
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Photographer and Editor/Founder of AllMusicMagazine.com. My love of live music has taken me to incredible experiences with the top bands of all time in stadium shows to the smallest venues with equally inspiring musicians. Using the medium of photography and my publication, these memories will last forever.
