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 and film noir themed presence, equal parts goth and glam, and lyrics that demonically satirize film noir and Golden Age Hollywood. 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 vocals.
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.
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.
In 2023, Kaldro deemed it his rite-of-passage after a confusing start to his career during the covid-pandemic to reinvent himself artistically, physically, and spiritually. Once a mild-mannered kid who stayed behind the camera, he is now a loud lewd, crude walking vision board for all things horror, gothic, politically incorrect, and rock n roll--- bearing the subtly of a sledgehammer and zero compunction, taking similar cues from theatrical rock legends like Alice Cooper, Rob Zombie, 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.
Musically, he embodies a dark industrial sound with a sensuous horror and film noir themed presence, equal parts goth and glam, and lyrics that demonically satirize film noir and Golden Age Hollywood. 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 vocals.
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.
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.
In 2023, Kaldro deemed it his rite-of-passage after a confusing start to his career during the covid-pandemic to reinvent himself artistically, physically, and spiritually. Once a mild-mannered kid who stayed behind the camera, he is now a loud lewd, crude walking vision board for all things horror, gothic, politically incorrect, and rock n roll--- bearing the subtly of a sledgehammer and zero compunction, taking similar cues from theatrical rock legends like Alice Cooper, Rob Zombie, 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.
