Splattercat RECORDS

Flavor Flav and Chuck D of Public Enemy wearing Minor Threat t-shirts

another new tune from the forthcoming “Whizz Kid Jr.” EP

Serpent Men is a funny name just to say- it was started by my friend Louie in 2006 with a guitarist whose name I can’t remember and a drummer who had just moved up from New Orleans by the name of Daniel.  This line-up was the only line-up that the band was able to record under in any successful manner due to the tumultuous lives of the two main members of the band, Louie and second-then-only guitarist Brian (I believe they had two other drummers in this time between 2006 and 2008- one being Zak Warmen, the “classic era” Serpent Men, and the Pope Jean-Paul, the “later era”).  Some of the stories I have featuring one or both of these two musicians in this band during this time are ones that are almost unbelievable, some of them I will never repeat to anyone but them.  However, despite this personal instability, the music was quite good- stenchcore as it always was, downtuned, mid-tempo, the sound of a punk/metal band who smoked a lot of weed, leaving quite the craving for more songs, more shows.  However, disagreements led to a break-up that lasted for four years, until the band played a few reunion shows in the area for bands that the members had been friends with while they were originally around.  The band is now no longer broken up, but they are relatively inactive, leaving behind a five-song EP that is listenable (they recorded songs in the later era of the band, but mixing/mastering problems led to them being nigh-unlistenable).

Part two of the Skrewdriver shirt we reclaimed from some idiot at our Detroit show.

Fuck all posers.

Fuck no politics hardcore.

Keef Herbin, the better half of Detroit rap duo Kissing Cuzzins, has just released his first EP with DJ Ray Krol. It’s chock-full of candy puns, Master P references and graphic sexual imagery that will probably upset my wife.