Death In Vegas

Richard Fearless began as resident DJ at the Job Club in London’s Soho during the 90s, where he played alongside the likes of Detroit’s Claude Young, Dave Angel, and his hero Andrew Weatherall. After a few years, he was picked as a resident for the legendary Heavenly Social, alongside the Chemical Brothers. It was during this time that he started Death in Vegas.

In 2004, after four albums (Dead Elvis, The Contino Sessions, Scorpio Rising, and Satan’s Circus) and touring the world extensively, Richard Fearless stopped Death in Vegas and moved to New York to study photography. Seven years later, he returned to London and took up Andrew Weatherall’s offer of a spare studio at his legendary den of mischief, Rotters Golf Club. Fearless resurrected Death in Vegas and wrote Trans-Love Energies, the 2011 album, which included the low-slung anthem Your Loft My Acid.
In 2016, Fearless followed with Transmission, a raw, visceral, trance-inducing battle cry and collaboration with Sasha Grey. They premiered the album at the prestigious Berlin Atonal and Movement Music Festival in Detroit.

In 2018, Death in Vegas were asked to support Nine Inch Nails, closing their Cold And Black And Infinite tour at the Hollywood Palladium for two nights.

Fearless released two solo albums in 2019 and 2022, Deep Rave Memory and the companion it spawned, Future Rave Memory, both to critical acclaim. He then turned again to Death in Vegas with the release of Death Mask in June 2025, his 7th studio album and one built on austere, disorienting ambient textures: an exploration of grief with an undercurrent of beauty and light.

Fearless continues to run his label Drone and the two club nights he co-founded: goo with Daniel Avery, which sees the friends dive into the trippier end of their record collections, and HOLY, the dub club he runs with Tom Dubwise. Fearless’ cult radio show Metal Box is now in its fifth year on Los Angeles radio station DubLab.