Lestat has everything a serious band needs: Real instruments; tight, well-rehearsed songs; and a frontman not afraid to take the spotlight. One of the most unique bands that has ever come out of Cleveland, Lestat has a sound like none other, forged on the unlikely streets of Parma in the late ’80s and tested in the early ’90s Goth playground that was the Phantasy in Lakewood. They earned attention, but never acclaim, and a lack of will or the incursion of real life put a stake through the band’s heart. But like the vampire they named themselves after, Lestat came back to life, resurrected in April of this year with their fourth studio album, Arisen. On Saturday at Peabody’s the band capped off a busy year that included headlining at the Anne Rice Vampire Lestat Fan Club Coven’s Ball over Halloween in New Orleans and completing a tour down the west coast before that.
This article appears in Nov 21-27, 2012.