Sunday, October 26, 2014

Psychopatic Video Review #1

This week I'm doing music video reviews. I'll do anywhere from two to three videos depending on how long I think I can make it. For the first review I'll do horror based music videos by Twiztid.

First video is "Story Of Our Lives" track number three off of "Man's Myth (Vol. 1)" of the Man's Myth Mutant double album from 2005.


















Man's Myth (Vol. 1) cover



















Mutant Vol. 2 cover

Story Of Our Lives music video

The video begins with two doctors talking to Madrox and Monoxide. The duo doesn't have face paint at first but rather the left half of Madrox is horribly disfigured and the right side of Monoxide is the same. This serves as a reference to the "Freekshow" album cover which shows Madrox and Monoxide sewn together.

















And the Twiztid angel
























The duo is shaking violently as the doctors speak to them with malicious intent in their voices and eyes. "We can help you" "we can make it better" Twiztid simply keeps shaking not saying a word. The music cuts on there is things being said in a newscast fashion about cops beating people and laughing about it. Then they start rapping Monoxide starts and continues until the chorus. It's switching between them rapping in the half and half disfigurmant makeup in an operating room of sorts, to them rapping in a hall way in red and black face paint with a group of people behind them most notably Blaze Ya Dead Homie and ABK. The chorus kicks in-
"This is the story of our lives
Come and take a look in my eyes
Keep it real and tell me no lies
We've been waiting for you"
During the chorus it switches back and forth from disfigurement to face paint. They are in one of several areas as it switches continually. The primary areas during the chorus and the rest of the song all together is the hall way, the operating room, and in front of large TV's with historical events playing on it. In addition to transitioning between all these areas rapidly during the chorus it has clips of Madrox and Monoxide in booths being electricuted. The electrocution plus the war footage on the big TV immediately maks me think of soviet sleeper agent styled hypnotisim and electro shock therapy used on the mentally ill long ago. From there Madrox starts rapping then Monoxide takes over again then it go's back to the chorus. To end it has Madrox rapping alone just as Monoxide had done in the first part of the song ending with the chorus repeated til it fades. Althoughout the video there is a man in a robot looking suit dancing along side a man in a gorrilla looking suit that has a diver mask in place of the head with a strange face inside. In addition to the men in costume there are several women in skimpy outfits with nice looking bodies dancing seductively but the camera only shows their bodies for a while before revealing a disfigured pig like face.

Second music video is "Hahahahahaha" by Twiztid off of "W.I.C.K.E.D." released in 2008 track four. The name of the album is an acronym, W.I.C.K.E.D. stands for Wish I Could Kill Ever Day.























W.I.C.K.E.D. album cover

HAHAHAHAHAHA music video

Now this music video is like a horror movie just like that of the entire album but this gives you the visual. The video is so good you don't even need to listen to the song to have your wig blown back but believe me you want the full experience. The video starts with random shots of a humble home and the only thing that stands out to me is the religious pamphlets on a table. It goes to a shot of an alarm clock that reads 7:59, it changes to 8:00 and the alarm goes off. Monoxide knocks it onto to the floor thus breaking it and slowly gets up. He is clearly wearing a wig and has his goatee shortened to make him look more presentable as necessary for his role in the video. He gets dressed up in a button up and tie and grooms his hair (wig). He grabs a bible and the pamphlets and heads outside to the snow. At this point it's pretty easy to tell that Monoxide is portraying one of those people that go door to door spreading the word of Jesus. The first house he goes to turns him down but the second house welcomes him in, a young black woman. It immediately cuts to a scene of Monoxide in what is presumably her bedroom with her but they are both soaked in blood she is missing a leg and he's the only one alive. He's smoking a cigarette and its showing clips of him on different parts of the bed smoking his cigarette. The last shot of him with the girl is of him leaning over her dead bodies mouthing the words "I'm gonna fuck you". The next shot is of an elderly woman letting him inside her house and it quickly cuts to him and her sitting on her couch with her dead and covered in cuts. He's busy cleaning and sharpening his knife (which just so happens to belong to the same knife set I have at home-fun fact) then putting it back into his hollowed out bible. Then it goes to the chorus where both Monoxide and Madrox can be seen in a pitch black room with a swinging overhead light as our only means of seeing the two rappers. They are both in their normal face paint but are wearing all black suits with a white tie as was customary during the W.I.C.K.E.D. era. Monoxide is first to sing the chorus.
"I'm laughing like a lunatic,
I'm laughing like a lunatic.
Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha,
I'm laughing like a lunatic,
I'm laughing like a lunatic!
Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha,...
I'm laughing like a lunatic!...
I'm laughing like a lunatic!"
In the midst of the chorus shows clips of Monoxide being invited it another house. The man has piano wire wrapped around and pulled into his throat and Monoxide is eating a bowl of cereal that I imagine the man had out for himself before being killed. Next it shows a newspaper the newspaper is moved to reveal another dead woman with a scalpal like blade stuck in her head. The chorus is over and it starts showing Monoxides final killing just as Madrox begins to rap. Monoxide is drowning a man in a bathtub and it cuts between the killing and the bathtub empty of water with severed limbs in it before it starts showing Madrox's character. Just as Monoxide had embodied a character with it's own distinctive look Madrox also has a costume to embody a character of their own creation. The biggest Madrox ever was was during the W.I.C.K.E.D. era but he is still wearing a fat suit for this video, it doesn't make him significantly bigger but its still enough to know he's wearing one. He also has a fake beard, as his beard looks very different in reality and can be seen in the chorus when they aren't dressed up, and a wig. He is also wearing a fanel jacket and all together looks very different than Monoxide's clean cut persona. When we first see Madrox he is washing his hand and looking in the mirror. Next he is opening the his front door to see a delivery man with a package for him who he promptly invites in. It switches to a set of basement stairs with hands reaching out (this isn't revilant to the video just the song so it isn't legitimate) then to Madrox pulling the delivery mans bodily through his kitchen and down to the basement leaving a trail of blood along the way. Now in his basement he is looking through his tools pulling out a knife at first then a hacksaw which he uses to then cut the man's head off. Next it shows Madrox standing in the parking lot of a mall but then switches back to him in his basement putting the severed head into a box and sloppily wrapping it up with tape. Another person is at his door this time a pizza man, he rings the door bell and Madrox quickly looks up still in his basement having just finished wrapping up the severed head. He answers the door and again invites the man in, next Madrox is in on a recliner eating the pizza and watching television with the man in another recliner disemboweled. He is laughing and pointing at the TV while talking to the dead man. It cuts to the chorus with a few quick clips of Madrox eating pizza. The chorus ends and the final scene ensues with the song over. A man is walking up to Madrox's character's house, the door opens and there Madrox is with a smile creasing his face at the sight of another victim at his door step. The camera turns to the man on his door step and it just so happens to be Monoxide's character who in turn has a smile creasing his face as well. The door shuts and the camera slowly zooms out til the end of the video leaving the mystery of what transpired after the two killer's worlds collided. What happened when a killer that gets himself invited into homes met a killer that invites people into his home?

 The third and final music video is from a more recent Twiztid release "A New Nightmare" that was not with Twiztid's long time label Psychopathic Records but rather released independently until the recent creation of their own record label "Majik Ninja Entertainment". This song is "Sick man" track number five on "A New Nightmare"




























A New Nightmare album cover

Sick Man music video

This song features long time friend Blaze Ya Dead Homie and the video itself features appearances by Kane Hodder known widely for his portrayal of Jason Vorhees in four of the Friday the 13th movies and Said Haig who played Captian Spaulding in the cult classic Rob Zombie movie House of 1000 corpses and the sequel The Devil's Rejects. The video starts with Madrox at the bar Monoxide in what looks like deep contemplation smoking a blunt possible mulling over suicide by the looks of it and Blaze pulling into the parking lot of a convenience store. Madrox is taking shots of what appears to be expensive alcohol with a friend before he heads off to his car. Monoxide is having a blunt looking rather somber before grabbing his car keys and also heading off to his car. Blaze is inside the store picking up some Newport menthols and a forty ounce before heading off to his truck. It starts raining where Madrox is at just as Kane Hodder, wearing coveralls and dead body looking makeup covering half his face, grabs him from behind bangs his head off his own car and drags him away. Next he grabs Monoxide from behind by the throat with rope from Monoxide's backseat. For his last victim Blaze Ya Dead Homie he plays possum as though he was hit by Blaze's truck and seriously injured leading Blaze out of his truck to be kidnapped. One by one it shows clips of Kane bringing them into his basement in three different intervals, bags on heads and ape around wrists. All throughout the video there are clips of Sid Haig playing chess with himself, symbolic depending on your view of such, to me it coincides with the men's capture, torture, and deaths. Now that they've been capture Kane now starts torturing them one by one, and I keep saying that because I don't think the three men see each other at all during and its even possible they've assumed the roles of men that don't know each other. After a gruesome torture scene all three men are dead and the song has ended. Kane makes a phone call to Sid only saying "Its done" Sid is pleased and knocks over the king on his chess set right before it cuts to all three bodies and Kane in Sid's office. Like I said before the chess set seemed to embody the lives of the men. I want you to be sure to pay attention to this last part where Sid is talking to the dead bodies so I'm not devulging too much. Sid says "I just wanna let you know what I'm about to give you is priceless" he then cuts his hand and drips a white liquid onto the faces of the dead men. Now my first interpretation was that this video was going to serve as an origins for the "Triple Threat", the Triple Threat is what Twiztid and Blaze call themselves when they rap together, now that Twiztid has their own label with Blaze as their first addition to the roster it seems more than likely that they will follow in the steps of their long time label Psychopathic Records and create groups among their roster just as ICP, Twiztid, and Blaze formed the Psychopathic Records supergroup "Dark Lotus" (even now after Twiztid and Blaze's depature) amongst other combinations of artists on the label to create new entities. Over all this is a great song and another movie like music video just like "HAHAHAHAHAHA".


That should wrap it up I suppose
Peace -(insert fake alias here)







Saturday, October 4, 2014

PunkinHed

This is a review for the Ep Punkinhed by rapper Boondox (real name David Hutto).

Backround info: David Hutto more commonly known by his stage name Boondox is an american rapper from a small southern town called Covinton, Gerogia. His persona is that of an evil scarecrow a concept developed by David and the Insane Clown Posse's Violent J to reflect his southern roots. He was the first addition to the Psychopathic Records roasters not from the city. He preforms a style of horror basend hip-hop known as Horrorcore coupled with southern themes such as banjo's. He raps about a number of things including his murderous family history, his own past, murder, death, violence, drugs, alcohol, partying, women, and the south.

Picture of Boondox from the "We All Fall" video (2010)


























PunkinHed is the second releashed by Boondox on Psychpathic Records, releashed in 2007 after his first LP titled The Harvest releashed in 2006. PunkinHed is an EP consisting of Seven tracks including the intro and two remixed songs from The Harvest

Track 1- Ressurection
This is the intro to PunkinHed and a very onimous one at that. It starts with a long whine from what I imagine is a violin, then proceeds with chanting and other random speech in the background that is difficult to understand. You can hear the voices of children amidst it all and then it finally ends with a woman screaming stop it in the voice of a child at first then in the voice of an adult. Gives you the feeling that a really wicked album is in-store for you.

Track 2- PunkinHed
This song is undoubtedly inspired by the movie "Pumpkin Head" in which there are two feuding backwoods families and one boys exchanges his soul to a witch to summon a pumpkin headed spirit to kill the other family to avenge his sister who died in a Romeo Juliet style. It starts with a man speaking about the spirit:
"Before tonight I didn't believe it. I thought it was something they made up too scare little kids. Then when the sun went down, my grandpa fetched the whole family together. And he told that some outsider folks did something real bad. He wouldn't say what, what he just said that Punkinhed was gonna be out after 'em, and that we better stay insde 'til his gone."
After this the song starts and Boondox raps from the perspective of the punkinhed. The song is some of horrorcore at it's finest the true embodiment of the style, a horror movie to a beat. Summoned by a voodoo ritual on a mission, here to "turn this bitch red" ,crawling out of the ground, fiending for your brains, coming for your life, you've been marked by the beast, here to eat your soul so be prepared to be deceased. That is a summary of the first part of the song just to give you a sense of what I mean by "wicked".

Track 3- Sleep Stalker
This song is very catchy and yet another fear inducing song. In this song Boondox can't stop himself from murdering in his sleep. He isnt quite sure what is causing him to have these "dreams". What he thinks are dreams are being shown on the news. All he knows is what he has to lose if this is real. It cuts to the chorus:
"[Boondox:]
I'm sleepin only sleepin I'm sleepin only sleepin I don't wanna sleep
I don't wanna dream I don't wanna hear the suffering, I don't wanna hear the screams
[Violent J:]
I'm only dreamin, I know I'm only dreamin
[Boondox:]
I don't wanna sleep I don't wanna dream I don't wanna hear the suffering, I don't wanna hear the screams"
To me what I hear is Boondox trying to deny his actions pleading almost I'm only sleeping I'm only sleeping, he knows its real but tries not to believe it tries to refuse the truth. He then dreams he is standing by a street light blood knuckles blood nose, confused and presuming he was in a street fight. He wakes up feeling beaten, eyes glazed, and in a haze and its gotten to a point where he doesn't even want to fall asleep. Every time he closes his eyes another victim is at his feet, it's getting hard to deal with, hard to tell what's real, hard to stay sane, and hard to say just how he feels. Cuts to chorus.
"And I don't want to know why this chick is barely breathing begging for her very life
Scratching clawing kicking screaming
While I just stand there laughing while this bitch's life is passing
Rope around her throat I watch her choke for every breath she gaspin
I watch her face and watch the tears pourin like rain
How'd I end up like this translated into fear and pain
So sick my stomach churnin in slow motion the world is turnin so sick mind of a vermin knowing that my soul is burning"
I don't wanna know...again to me that translates to him denying his actions but at this point it's near impossible to do so. Then the tone kinda switches to let's just get this over real or not but that's only my opinion. Finally the last lyrics after this verse and the chorus to end:
"I dont wanna sleep i can't even close my eyes
I don't wanna dream every night somebody dies
I don't wanna think what's the truth behind these lies?
I don't wanna hear the screams and I don't wanna hear the cries"
First line, reiteration second line,almost like a slip up like he's agknowledging these aren't dreams third line, most significant because it's even more of an admission of guilt to me it's him saying he knows he's lying to himself but is afraid of the truth so he doesn't want to know fourth line, back to the murder. And that is it.

Track 4- Southern Nights
This is an even more catchy song but has a much more cheery tone to it. This song is about the things Boondox associates with the south that he's come to know and love in particular the type of things you would do just hanging out at night.
"Won't You Take Me Back To The Dark So Pitch Black
Most Can't See Where We At It's Where I'm Happy
It's Where I Am One With This Land I've Become
Take Me Home Take Me Back It's Where I'm Happy"
This chorus simply lays it out for you Boondox loves his home it's where he is happy it's where he belongs. Other than that there's not much to it but it is its simplicity that truly speaks to how much he really loves his home because he doesn't need some overly complicated reasons for why he loves the south he just does it's where he's from and he wouldn't have it any other way. When we moved down south I couldn't help but listen to this song over and over again once we got into our new town until we made it to our new house. Obviously things didn't pan out correctly and we wound up back home but I still love the song and some of things the song talk about are some of the things I liked and kinda miss.

Track 5- Suffering
Back to the fearful sound of the first three tracks. In Boondox's music a lot of the crimes he commits are towards women but not because he hates them but because he loves them they are his inspiration for a number of his songs and this one is a strong example of that. In this song Boondox is deeply in love with a girl but is afraid of it ending so he thinks of a way he can be with her forever... He knocks her out and kidnaps her. He throws her over his shoulder and starts to head home, he notices she is bleeding profusely and needs to get her to his house quickly before he loses her on the trip. He makes it home and puts her down to unlock the door wipes the blood from her chin and brings her down to his basement. She eventually comes to and realizes something is wrong and starts begging him to let her go or at least tries but she can't speak.
"Down the stairs around the corner to her new home
Coming to her senses and she's knowing something's going up
Eyes glazed she looked at me as if to say
Tell me what you've done and please make this all go away
But no words no sound from her precious lips
She reached and touched me softly with her broken bloody fingertips
The tears fell and reality was sinking in
In utter shock and disbelief at this unforgiven sin
The smell of death like a reminder echoes through the walls
knowing that she sits all alone down those darkened halls
I want to hold her touch her lay beside her never leave
But the sadness on her face will never let it be
And so she sits and stares just waiting for her final breath
A mix of love and broken heart wishing for her death
And on this night I sit here waiting for the end
When I can walk those darkened halls and be with her again" It is truly a song of immeasurable love...
"She lies awake for days suffering in misery
No one to hold her close and give her what she really needs
I know I want to see her be with her all through the night
And so I'm waiting for her last goodbye"
The chorus sums the song up nicely.

Track 6- They Pray With Snakes (remix)
This song is a remix from a song on Boondox's first album "The Harvest". The remix was done by Psychopathic Records main producer Mike E Clark. I would prefer not to go too into depth with this song because it has a music video that I would like to do a review on in the future and it is on "The Harvest" which I would also like to do a review on. What I will say is that "They Pray With Snakes" is about a regligious sect in the backwoods of the deep south that worships snakes. He talks about human sacrifice and how everyone just ignores the missing people.
"I can hear them screaming through the forest at night
They pray with snakes and they poison my mind"
He talks about a lot full of the decaying vehicles of the victims. He talks about all the bones and belongings all piled in a heap. He talks about the screams of torture still blowing in the breeze. "The secrets of a small town kept locked away"

 Track 7- Seven (remix)
Once again I don't want to dip into this song too much either because it is on "The Harvest" and is actually the first real song by Boondox as Boondox.
"A tisket, a tasket
The Skarecrows out his casket
Turn off the lights and lock the door
Prayin' that he passes"
This version features a more hip-hop orientated sound than the original.
"A demon spawn
The child of a bastard son
Seven born of seven and the
Seventh child fathered one
A soul black full of pain
Bodies in the field Blood pourin' like rain"
The chorus.

























Well that should be about it unless I decide to add more pictures or something... (Insert fake alias here)

Decided to add links to music
Sleep Stalker
Southern Nights
Suffering

Chances are some of the lyrics arent 100% but its good enough i suppose...I highly suggest listening to all three