WTF Friday: Chris Barnes Advance Vocal Track For Graveyard Classics 4

Posted April 9 by Chris D. (2 Comments)

Six Feet Under has released three Graveyard Classics records since 2000. Each a must-own. "Stepping Stone" by Paul Revere and the Raiders, "What Do You Do for Money Honey?" by AC/DC and "Not Fragile" by Bachman-Turner Overdrive are just slathered in troglodyte death metal metal sauce. Mandatory above-ground pool (sans water) party material. Well, what if Chris Barnes, Steve Swanson, Terry Butler, Greg Gall revealed their true childhood musical heroes by swaning off into Laura Branigan territory? Yes, Laura Branigan of "Gloria", "Self Control", "Solitaire" and the ever-rearend touching "How Am I Supposed to Live Without You" fame.

Folks, turns out the engineer at Powdertoes Studios, where Six Feet Under are currently ensconced, leaked Barnes' advance vocal track for ""Self Control", which is slated for the group's upcoming covers album, '80s Songs We Dance & Cry To, Vol. 1. We can wait to hear Terry Butler reinterpreting those bass lines. 

WTF Friday: Those of the Unlighted Beer Pub Signs

Posted March 26 by Chris D. (7 Comments)

It’s no secret several dB staffers trawl eBay on a very frequent basis. It could be for ultra-rare, super-expensive death metal CDs (defunct Swedish outfit Explusion recently had an EP, 1993’s A Bitter Twist of Fate, go for $454.00, Swedish cult death metallers Utumno’s legendary Across The Horizon EP fetched a pretty $325.00 at close and an original Gorement Ending Quest ended predictably at $205.41. Talk about dick-in-door sticker shock!), baseball team undies (Albert bought a pair of Phillie Phanatic tighties and wore them over his pants around the office for a full day), guidebooks (Publication and Recording Industry Rivalries for Dummies) and other assorted weirdness. In fact, we’re so tuned into death metal + eBay that we found a Chinese seller, ‘fully-life’, hawking Centinex-branded puffy alarm clocks and flasks. Really (click here).

Not to be topped by ‘fully-life’ and his endless array of needless metal-branded goodies, a Chinese seller ‘donmytt’ upped the anvil-hard ante. Instead of trying to capture every aspect of lifestyle products—the Dark Tranquillity money clip/watch hybrid ruled!—our boy ‘donmytt’ has dug a product hole so deep he’s nearly to America. Seriously. Well, he knows what American metalheads—Canadian, too, since we’re being nice—like best. 1) metal. 2) beer. 3) beer paraphernalia. Since ‘donmytt’ needs all kinds of crazy licenses to export beer to the U.S. (and Canada) and the upfront costs (including payoffs to local Minister of Environments & Taxidermys) are insanely prohibitive, he had the brilliant idea to manufacture lighted beer pub signs. Not just any lighted beer pub signs either, ’cause Pabst, Schlitz and Miller High Life would be all over ‘donmytt’ with Cease and Desist orders. No, friends, these are metal-branded lighted beer pub signs. With logos.

All signs are 12 inches x 9 inches (30 cm x 22 cm), clear acrylic plastic, 110v or 240v and come with a metal chain. A metal fucking chain.