The begginning....

SLAY FUCKING BELLS

SLEIGH BELLS was formed when Derek Bells met Alexia Sleigh when they were at High School together. She was a teenager that had to be friends with the popular girls, but had a deep yearning for metal music. Derek was the misunderstood loner who played hardocre punk guitar but had to keep his hair well presentable so he didn't attract the madness of the jocks. One day they met when Derek was playing his Poisin in the Well songs under the bleachers, and Alexis heard this sound and was like:

"What is that infectious hook guitar without evenm an amplifier?"

and itr was Derek so they met. They hit it off immediately with their love for the forbidden sounds of rock n roll but it was to be a long time before they could forfill there destiny to become SLEIGH BELLS together.

Alexis was forced by her mom to join a teen pop band called Prussion Blue which had a few albums but eventually broke down. Derek went on to live his dreams of being in Poisin In the Well but there was always something missing. One day, he was working in a resraunt to make ends meat because he was doing the music just for love, when he spied Alexis having dinner with her miother. Derek couldn’t beleiove his eys and tilting down his trademark Raybands said:

"Remember me?"

Aleixs spat her soup all over her mother and was so please to see Derek they immediately started to talk about that day when she heard his mad guitat and how much they liked rock. In the middle of the dinner Aleixa realised just how her mother had ruined her life so far and decided to just run off with Derek so they could play the music that there hearts sounded like. They moved to Brroklyn and started working on the songs together that would make them famous. They decided on the name of SLEIGH BELLS because it was there two names married together and was descriptive of the aloor Alexis would have on the gentailia fo the male portion of there audience.

The rest is history in the making.

Wednesday, 5 September 2012

Jelacy

At first I was fewming with rage at this ridiculus picture but it just gave way to pitty about how jellus people are of there talent and how much they scare the establishment

Tuesday, 24 July 2012

Filling UR Smalls

Couldntve put it any better mysef......

SLEIGH BELLS ROCKED

By Scott Tady stady@timesonline.com | Posted: Thursday, July 19, 2012 6:00 pm

MILLVALE -- Sweat and inadvertent elbows were flying Wednesday inside Mr. Small's Theatre, as fans bounced and bobbed to the bodacious beats and super-sized guitar of Sleigh Bells.

The Brooklyn noise-pop band emphasized the noise, blasting songs tapped from both its full-length albums out of a stage-wide stack of Marshall amps topped by retina-scorching strobe lights.

Guitarists Derek Miller and Jason Boyer (a touring band member only) launched the show alone with the fiery opening riffs of "Demons". Moments later, singer Alexis Krauss sauntered onto the stage, in an art-school chic getup of frayed booty shorts, fishnets and a studded leather jacket she'd soon shed, revealing a loose and ready-to-be ripped T-shirt.

Sometimes smiling, sometimes snarling, Krauss was a dynamic stage presence, whipping around her black-mopped head with wild abandon to the band's sampled, loudly pulsating hip-hop-meets-metalcore beats. The sold-out crowd released its joy with a mix of head-banging and rap concert style arm-waving as the razor-sharp, Slayer-like riffage from Miller and Boyer justified one of the band's song titles, "True Shred Guitar."

Krauss encouraged fans to mosh, noting there weren't any signs forbidding it, but few took the bait.

She got a better response when asking, "You want to dance with me, Pittsburgh?"

The answer was yes, not that there was any room on the jam-packed floor for spectators to properly move their feet.

So, Krauss met them on their turf, leaning on the outstretched hands of fans. She fearlessly crowd surfed on the pre-encore, Funkadelic-sampling "Rill Rill," neatly flipping from her back to her front while still held aloft horizontally by the adoring crowd.

By the end of the band's three-song encore, a few dozen fans, mostly female, breached the stage, finally getting to dance along with Krauss, who seemed amused.

Sleigh Bells' previous Pittsburgh visit was to Brillobox, Krauss said, now they're filling Mr. Small's.

As word spreads about such magnetic performances, bigger crowds seem to be inevitable.

Tuesday, 17 July 2012

Pitchfork stabbed

The Sleigh Bells Rein of Terror continuos as they lornched a three pronged attack on the pitchfork festival. Alexias  is left breathless by thrash metal legend Jason Boyor Dereks old idol from Posion the Well who brings even more tats attitude and metal to the bells.

Thursday, 5 July 2012

Never Say die

Here the duo meet star of the film "dark-man' Nicolas Worth who plays gay ganstar 'Paulie'. The band wrote the song Never Say DIe about Nic as even though he is dead IRL n dark-man he appears alive right next to  his caracters dead bodie from falling ontop of a car on the street.


Tuesday, 19 June 2012

Saterday Night Alive

D Maxxx & Lexi chuckle like mischivus school kids outside the principles office during there triumphant SNL appearence. Guest hosts Maya Angela and River Como are flabbergasted for what to say in this wild moment of live TV!

Tuesday, 29 May 2012

"The Greatest Joke The Devil ever Plated..."

For a period Derek blew away peoples expectations by dressing as a preppy and the people couldn't believe such a clean cut boy could be so wild and a vessle for such havoc. Here he is does a sign of the devil to csmera while Alexi is suspendid midair like the exersist.

Thursday, 24 May 2012

Pornograffitti

Lexi and Dare proudly flaunt their trinkets of a bygone era. Derek was I spired by the airbrush art of the carnival rides and stoner band vans off
His native Miami Florida. Alixia shows off her heavy metal waistcoat and getto blaster which they played there backing tracks on when they were busking for money in The early days.

Thursday, 17 May 2012

Revenge is a Dish best served as desert...

Shortly after the onstage mishap with his axe Alexi gets her own back. She blindsided Derek during an interview with Zane Low but Derek just grined because he's taken on such tougher assaylents in the american hardcore seen.

Saturday, 12 May 2012

Raining Blood

This is the legendry moment when the cover of 'rein of terror' was born. Derek acsidentally jabs Alex in the privits with the nub of his guitar causing her to bleed a on her keds. It was nothing seerius but it makes for a jaring image and war metarphor.

Friday, 11 May 2012

With a Bitch Betwix

Derek and Alexia in 'The Sleigh' (there trusty tour van) Derek and Alexi sleep
In there clothes with there pig-dog Charlot who protects there equipment and Derek's granddadds war medals when the duo are on stage.

Saturday, 7 April 2012

If You Love Sonething Let It Free...

In this intimate and artfully taken shot Alexia meditated on her time in Ruby Blue and how Derek set her free from her gilded cage of pop despair

Friday, 23 March 2012

Miller Light

Derek has to swerve his head away from the heat-power coming out of the marshall stack amps that is so powerful it is causing the marshals to overheat. Sleigh Bells don actually play live and have a back track but its so loud it has the same ferosserty. 

Wednesday, 21 March 2012

Whos BAD?

Derek shows how hes down on the kids with his cool myspace duckface and Micheal Jackson T-shirt

Thursday, 15 March 2012

Pump Up Tha Volume

Derek rezerects the devil may care altitude of 90s metal when high tops were king and reebok pump softly trod the earth

Wednesday, 14 March 2012

Apocalips Soon

Aleixs glouers into the camera to step off because Derek is a ticking timebomb waitibng to blow. 

Tuesday, 13 March 2012

Fear and Self Loathing In Williamsburgh

Derek is often disgusted with his popularerty and longs for the days of Poise and the well but knows that he is bringin gpunk to the mainstream so he has to carry on and do it for the fans.