At Mixdown, they talk a whole lot about what is metal and what isn’t – but today, they’re pretty sure they hit peak metal levels when they stumbled across a New York Times documentary on the fascinating tale of 96 year old Inge Ginsberg – Holocaust survivor, grandmother, and death metal artist.
Death Metal Grandma, which you can watch at MixDown Magazine, focuses on Ginsberg’s jaw-dropping life and career as a musician. Ginsberg fled Austria prior to World War II, relocating to a refugee camp in Switzerland before moving to Los Angeles and making a career composing songs for the likes of Nat King Cole and Dean Martin. After being inspired to pursue heavy metal in her later years by a friend who was terrified of the content of her lyrics, Ginsberg formed TritoneKings and reinvented herself as ‘Death Metal Grandma’, appearing on programs such as Switzerland’s Got Talent as well as auditioning for America’s Got Talent.
Read the article by Will Brewster and watch the video clip on the Mixdown Magazine site.