Album Notes

Otto's Daughter is female fronted cyber erotic pop-metal.
The perfect balance between melody & aggression, light and shade. Fragile yet brutal. The music straddles the fence between pop & metal; never sacrificing one for the other. Jacqueline van Bierk's soothing, caressing vocals float sensually above the often muscular musical landscape; providing the velvet glove to the instruments' pumping fist.

Otto's Daughters sound has evolved from raw goth/ industrial to a tantalizing, erotic riff rock maelstrom. European transplant Jacqueline Van Bierk, HH Gadget and NY native Jim Robbins relocated to Los Angeles in April 2003 and made an immediate impact on the LA music scene, gaining a new fanbase. JVB won "Best Female Vocalist" at the 2003 Rock City Awards.

JVBs long time collaborator and core member HH Gadget parted with OD in spring 2005 for personal reasons. JVB and Jim reformed the band and released their 5 song EP in june 2005.

Physical. Aggressive.Jacqueline van Bierk commands attention-she's vampire desire; mermaid myth; and a secret you're dying to tell.
A sexual ghost; a vivid image-Jacqueline rides the surging, sonic OD wave at the edge of the stage- at the edge of something beautiful.

Otto's Daughter 5 song EP produced by Bryan Carlstrom(Rob Zombie, The Offspring, Filter, Poe, Alice in Chains, The Dreaming) and Chris Hall (The Dreaming, Stabbing Westward) is now available on OD's website, at live shows and soon available on cdbaby.com
Otto's Daughter has released 2 full length albums, which are available on cdbaby.com as well as on ottosdaughter.com.


Lastest Review
The Becoming 001
Label: IndependentFirst of all - it's really unbelievable a band like Otto`s Daughter isn't signed by a label as of yet. They've all a band should have for seducing everybody's ears - highly infectious melodies, powerful as well as sensible songs, varied sound ideas and fantastic female vocals.

Already with their previous self released albums ("Void Of Course", 1999 and "Renew", 2002) this band from California managed to serve exciting adventures of massive rock riffs, industrial elements, goth flavor and earwig melodies, colored with Jacqueline van Bierk's diversified vocals.
Now the long awaited new EP is finally ready.
Produced by Bryan Carlstrom (Rob Zombie, Filter, Alice in Chains, The Dreaming), Chris Hall (The Dreaming, Stabbing Westward) and Otto's Daughter, it starts with the energy driven "Mars" which offers a really great interaction between deep and indie guitar riffs. The chorus is very dithyrambic, and the partly involved keyboard spots add a nice gothy flair to the mix.
"Angels" starts off very exotic with some Far Eastern splinters and a trippy'n'groovy rhythm before vibrant guitars in the chorus carry you away. Jacqueline's vocals are remarkably pending between powerful and mysterious. This is a song to listen to in the desert, when the sunset has begun and things seem arcane but beautiful.
The highly catchy "Losing You" already got my attention when the band put it up to their myspace section. It's a melancholic mid-tempo piece with a thoughtful, slower paced vers and a succulent chorus. The spooky but sentimental keyboard accents remind of the goth esprit you had in the 80's and support the atmosphere of the song perfectly.
Via "Don't Care" the band created a fiery track with strong riffs and a pulsating attitude whilst the concluding "All I Ever Wanted" is a triphop like, calm pearl with a piano line and Jacqueline's vocals done in a intense, 'not of this world' way.
I highly recommend this EP as well as the other records of this band to everybody into dark twinkling rock music with an industrial edge.
Breda, 10 Jul 2005