Butch Dante
Butch Dante is a novelist, rock music lyricist, and magazine writer.
He has written two works of fiction: Carybdis & The Boy, and The True Story of King Arthur.
He is currently working on a third book: Hellikon.
Butch’s work is regularly featured in a variety of music, art, and culture magazines, most recently LA News, Vive Le Rock, and MÜ Magazine.
Butch has found a wide audeince for his writing through his work as lyricist and rythm guitarist with The Imbeciles, a five-piece guitar rock band based out of NYC and Nashville.
In March 2022, The Imbeciles debuted their second album, Imbecilica, produced by music legend Youth (AKA @youthmartin), who also played bass and co-wrote the eleven tracks on the release.
The band has widespread support from radio (BBC Radio 1, BBC Radio 6, BBC Radio 3, Radio X, Kiss, etc.) as well as television syndication (BBC1 Match of the Day used the single, Sunday Leaguer, reaching an audience of 7 million).
Carybdis, from Carybdis & The Boy. Illustration by @Polly Finch
Bandersnatch is one of several villains/monsters to feature in my next novel,Hellikon,
Bandersnatch is one of several villains/monsters to feature in my next novel, Hellikon, and is an homage, obviously, to XXXX’s creature of the same name. Butch Dante, February 11th, 2023 Bandersnatch… Eight legs moving in outlandish four-by-four syncopation. A spider,...
This is the opening to my novel, Hellikon,
This is the opening to my novel, Hellikon, the sequel to Carybdis & the Boy. I’m about half way through writing it. Butch Dante, February 11th, 2023 Welcome Pilgrim, to The Bit Just Before the End of The World. Mankind’s eventual nemesis enters humbly, in the form...
The New School
This is a letter I was prompted to write after my hilariously unsuccessful attempt to apply to participate in the Master of Fine Art program at The New School in Manhattan. I was channelling Hunter S. Thompson, who was the master of this sort of thing. Butch Dante,...
What Becomes a Music Legend
What Becomes a Music Legend Harbingers, Easter Eggs, & premonitions … the Devil’s in the micro detail There’s a chilling moment in the documentary Gimme Shelter, about the pivotal 1969 Altamont Freeway music festival, that defines and confirms Mick...
Mercy for Imbeciles
Mercy for Imbeciles: Butch Dante of UK post-punk band the Imbeciles told us about his Sisters of Mercy experience. Butch Dante: The year is 1985. The city is Hull, on the desolate and arctic North East Coast of England. The venue, hilariously, is Tiffany’s night...