Hell's Elves (then called Vampyrates) sold their first coffin in 1997 at the Dracula Centennial festival in Los Angeles. Bullet and Nikki then began marketing their gothic creations at appropriately dark venues such as the original Fang Club in Beverly Hills and Bar Sinister in Hollywood. Before long their works could be found at many of L.A.'s spookiest stores, among them: Necromance, Shrine, Memento Mori, Dark Delicacies, Studio City Tattoo and VooDoo Ink.
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| Bullet's makeup test for The X-Files. |
Bullet (woodworks/painting/designing/etc.) is a self-taught coffin maker who cuts wood by hand and has used the same saw for decades. He is also the director of the Imagine Pirates performance troupe and author of the blog Pirate Envy. Other writings include (for Mutiny Magazine): the advice column Wench Whisperer, and more gothically, The Newgate Gentlemen's Club.
Notable Goth Credential: Trent Reznor's stand-in for the Perfect Drug music video.
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| Nikki in Buffy the Vampire Slayer. |
Nikki (sculptress/mold maker/designer/illustrator) sculpted the original skull and bat lid ornaments and illustrates our promotional material. She is also the creator of BoilerGoth steampunk gear and works as a creature FX artist for television (Buffy the Vampire Slayer, The X-Files, Babylon 5) and films (Starship Troopers, 300, Alien Resurrection).
Notable Goth Credential: Invented blood-squirting fangs for the TV series Angel.
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| First business card. |
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| Nikki at our first vendor booth; DracFest 1997. |
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| Bullet in the DracFest '97 gothumentary; Sex, Death and Eyeliner. |
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| Name change, 1998. |
Bullet and Nikki have also collaborated on the Sea of Darkness pirate cruises for Revenge From The Sea, and a column: The Art of Revenge, for Pirates Magazine.
Dual Goth Credentials: They both performed cameos as vampires in an episode of Buffy the Vampire Slayer.
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