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nce I asked Jerry Only where the
Misfits' bodies were buried, and he said,
"Most of our bodies were buried around 1983 in the
Jersey Meadowland swamp and are probably all crab
food by now." Seems to me Danzig should've gotten
some RIP time, also, after releasing his first self-
title; he should've made a better pact with the devil.
Should ve mad
Anyway, with just coming short of impaling record
Exces and mem
execs and members of the courts, the Misfits have
been resurrected for a new generation of
fiends-without old man
disco daddy, Danzig. This
time, Jerry and Doyle
have claimed the soul of
as well
a younger ghoul,
Michael Graves, well
as that of war-hammer-
on-drums, Dr Chud.
Don't think the Misfits
are just t cashing in at the
blood bank, however, for
wever, for
they know punk rock was
Hey know punk
just a big sell-out from
Hom
don't
the beginning, and don
I want to be e dependent on
any marketing scheme or Doyle of the Misfits
strategy. Like Jerry said,
"We don't want to be in demand because the hula
hoop is in
is in, end of story." Literally, there was an earth-
quake just hours before they and the US Bombs
frightened the House of Blues management on LA's
Sunset Strip. The club was a fitting "Hollywood
Babylon" atmosphere, to say the least; spotted
among the legions of the undead were members of
The Cramps.
and White Zombie. Playing classics
from Walk Among Us, Earth AD, Legacy Of Brutality,
as well as their newest, American Psycho, they howled
and screamed a 40-50 song set without mercy to
security, or their skillfully custom-made skull guitars.
of
They are currently on tour with Megadeth, so grab
some teenagers,
, and see them play. And don't for-
get to throw some cat shit at Dave Mustaine for
playing the Cro-Mags" "Only One" on Saturday
Night Live-JJ. No-Burn, Berlin, Burn! (Grand Royal
Records) is not a record of Public Enemy, Ice Cube
or Big Daddy Kane in Europe, it's the American
release from the German trio Atari Teenage Riot,
and is the kind of mishmash only a European can get
away with. It's got beats, screwy techno noises, fat
guitars and lots of screaming and cussing. But don't
worry, the techno aspect never dominates, and the
guitars include Slayer and Powermad samples.
Slayer may be getting a bit tired, but the "Angel of
in his
Jam
Conveniently
onveniently coexisting on the same
20th annual Rock Steady Reunion dur-
Death" riff will live longer than any of us. Burn, Berlin, ing the last weekend of July. People came from
Burn! and ATR remind us that German is a language all over the globe to enjoy events such as a star-stud-
best appreciated when shrieked-DBH... All my tech- ded concert, a B-boying battle, and a free park
no, raver, DJ friends told me the most happening which featured artists from the old (Cold Crush
record to add to my eclectic music selection is Brothers) to the new (Co-Flow, Arsonists) as well
Banco de Gaia's Big Men Cry (Mammoth Records), as West Coast representation
(Alkaholiks, Mystik
which I thought was going to be full of crazy sounds Journeymen).
supported by a pseudo-techno instrument back beat weekend was the International Turntablist
you'd find in the audio education section of the Federation's Second Half Categorical Battle at
library. But this stuff blew my mind! The Tramps in Manhattan. Top turntablists competed in
monotonous churning of any machine is like the categories of Beat Juggling, Scratching, and
an industrial rhythm in itself, and Toby Team Battles. While turntable technicians such as
Marks' mix of
mix of entrancing
g beats and samples Lil' Jazz from Canada, I M Press from Chicago,
emulate the mechanical repetition. Add to Do-Boy from Ithaca, and Slyce from Jersey rocked
that some tribal bea
eats int
infused with ill
Il routines, ultimately only two individuals and one
psychedelia, and you've got something rem- team advanced to the ITF Finals to be held in San
eam advances ove
iniscent of Pink Floyd's Dark Side Of The Francisco: Tony Vegas of the UK's incredible crab-
Moon-JS... It's not so hard to imagine: a bing
a bing dominated Scratching, Roli Rho shocked Beat
young, subversive Matt Payne sequestered Juggling, and his crew 5th Platoon took the top spot
and ou
bedroom with
with a stash of Misfits and for Team Battles... Don't let the smooth shit fool you,
Motörhead records, while the senior Payne under the R&Beats of Common's new
fills their Rhode Island house with the big cuts-"Reminding me (of Sef)," featuring Chantay
band sounds of
s of Tommy Dorsey and Gene Savage; "Education of Lonnie Lynn," featuring Cee-
Kruppa. But neither could have predicted Lo of the Goodie Mob; "Retrospect For Life," fea-
the end result would be Demonspeed. A turing Lauryn Hill of The Fugees; and "All Night,"
potent mixture of
of Slayer-like riffs and swing featuring Erykah Badu-there is some dope, deep
sensibilities, this "dance" band is like the electronica lyricism you need to peep. Look out for the new
anti-Christ. With his
With his slicked-back
bouffant, Payne is a crooner with a
velvety voice, while bassist Sal
Villanueva, drummer Jim King,
and guitarist Chris Shannon give
new meaning to the phrase "big
band sound" on the quartet's debut
release, Swing Is Hell (Black
Pumpkin Records). A longtime
New York hardcore scenester,
Payne initially had a tough time
realizing his satanic-swing vision. Demonspeed
day, he met
Villanueva on the job: "I
day
album, One Day
album, One Day
It'll All Make Sense
All Make Sense
(Relativity
Recordings); it'll
be fire, Joe. Other
be fire, Joe. Other
hot platters melt-
ing my turntable
my turntable
as of late are
as of late are
DITC's Day
DITC's "Day
One" on their
independent label,
DITC Records;
DITC Records:
Tha Alkaholiks'
your dead girlfriend, hop in the old doom buggy, kill A tattoo artist by did a lot of ink work on Sal, latest likwit lava, "Hip-Hop Drunkies," featuring
NAPALM DEATH
got
and when you spend a lot of time tattooing someone,
you sort of find common interests to talk about. But
when I first explained the whole concept of it, he was
pretty s
y skeptical." After listening to Payne's demo,
however, Villanueva soon
religion a King and
Shannon were quickly brought into the fold. Like
most swing outfits, Demonspeed sport the requisite
suit and tie. "We could go to a wedding the way we're
dressed on stage," says Payne. "It's a real suit. I
bought it at Today's Man. Now, if we could be spon-
sored by those guys, I would be stoked"-JE... Hip-
hop reclaimed the Bronx as its original home for the
DBH-Darren Brady-Harris, JE-Joe Epstein, JJ-James Jackson, JS-Jon Stain, T54-True 54
piss on
Wu-Tang's Ol' Dirty, and their relieving piss
your steps, "Off the Wall," both on Loud Records;
and The Beatnuts' second single, "Off the
Books," which features Big Punisher, Cuban
Link and a stupidly-catchy "yoooubet-
tawatchyostepnow" hook off their s
r sizzling second
album, Stone Crazy (Relativity Recordings). Finally,
please don't sleep on OC again this time; he's
back with a new album called Jewels (Payday
Records) and, judging by the gems "My World"
and "Far from Yours" he's already dropped, it's
gonna be on like an iced-down medallion-T54.
It must be a source of pride to be feeling now from bands like Today
part of such a big influence.
Is The Day and Unsane. There's a
lot of aggressive music out there, but
only certain bands come from the
heart, as opposed to just being noisy.
How do you continue to challenge
yourself and keep your fans happy
at the same time?
Mitch: Jesse and I knew each
other from before-he was in
Terrorizer, and I was in Righteous
Pigs-and we joined Napalm at the
same time. It was a big responsibility
to carry on the name. At the time, it
was my favorite band. How many
musicians get the opportunity to join
Universally credited with pushing their favorite band? It took a while,
metal past another milestone in the but I was really happy when we did
late '80s, England's Napalm Death the Mass Appeal Madness EP.
helped made blast beats and guttural That's what I really thought Napalm
growls a permanent part of the loud should sound like.
music lexicon. Semi-founding mem- What up and coming bands do you
ber and bassist Shane Embury and see carving out their own territory
guitarist Mitch Harris clue us in on the way you did when you were
the current Napalm Death, which also coming up?
includes singer Mark "Barney"
Shane: In '85-86, I was into bands
like Siege, Corrosion, Discharge.
still extreme.
Shane: Some bands are almost
doomed by their first record. They
should be allowed to move on and
develop. If we did too much of our
early stuff at this point in our lives,
people would get bored, and we'd
get bored ourselves. Over the
years, our influences have changed,
but the integral parts are still there.
When you hear something new and
exciting, like when I first heard
Sonic Youth, it tends to rub off and
add something to what you've
already been doing. It's interesting,
though, we do a new record and
people don't tell us they appreciate
it till the next time we come around,
Shane: That would throw and by then we've already got al
them completely.
new record. -Morgan Walker
Mitch: A lot of our newer stuff New LP, Inside The Torn Apart, on
Shane: A lot of Napalm fans
have certain favorite eras. We're
always getting comments. It almost
makes you want to do something
really far removed to show them
what it's really all about-in a dif-
ferent form, maybe, but with the
same integral energy.
Do you play unreleased songs in
your set?
Greenway, guitarist Jesse Pintado, Besides Coalesce, I get the same might be more melodic, but it's Earache Records.
and drummer Danny Herrara.
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