Foundational math rock / post-metal / jazz-core band Dazzling Killmen have announced they have reformed and will be performing live again starting in September 2025. Founding members vocalist/guitarist Nick Sakes and drummer Blake Fleming will be playing together for the first time since disbanding 30 years ago. They will be joined by bassist Evan Jagels and guitarist Ben Greenberg of the band Uniform. Dazzling Killmen formed in the St. Louis area in 1990 with vocalist/guitarist Nick Sakes and jazz students drummer Blake Fleming and bassist Darin Gray. The group released four singles, a live cassette and two full-lengths before officially ending in 1995, with most material released through independent label SKiN GRAFT Records. Guitarist Tim Garrigan later joined after guesting on their "Medicine Me" single. The band broke up in fall 1995 prior to a planned Japan tour with Jim O'Rourke, Melt-Banana, Space Streakings and Zeni Geva. Sakes went on to play in Colossamite with future Deerhoof members Ed Rodriguez and John Dieterich. He is currently a member of Minneapolis post-hardcore trio Upright Forms, who released their debut LP "Blurred Wires" last year. Fleming was founding drummer of Laddio Bolocko and then The Mars Volta. He recently performed with Jagels in Shatter on Impact, featured on SKiN GRAFT's "Sounds To Make You Shudder!" Halloween compilation. Drawing influence from hardcore punk and jazz, Dazzling Killmen has been noted by critics and peers as having influenced the genres known as math rock and post-metal. Their final album "Face of Collapse" was
About the concert
