Hey all, this is Rod Usher from "Europe's No. 1 Horror Punk band" The Other. Please notice the quotation marks because this was a description that I lifted from a review of our new album and not something I made up myself. Speaking of our new album: which is our fourth CD/LP "New Blood" is out [today/ August 31st] in North-America on Steamhammer/SPV/E1 Entertainment and for those of you who like Horror-influenced Punk-Rock-Metal-Goth with inspirations drawn from bands like The Misfits, Danzig, The Damned and countless horror movies and books, you may want to check it out. It's hard to single out one track from the album really because every title has a little history to it. But I think "Back To The Cemetery" is the one that is most interesting and diverse
It all started out years before we founded The Other at a time when I was working in the intensive care unit of a hospital. Patients died all the time but I usually had nothing to do with this until one day I had to help the coroners after an autopsy. They took the corpse and I had to clean up the steel-tub after that. Lots of blood and pus....not very pleasant. The corpse looked all messed up and since we don't have open casket ceremonies in Germany it was going to be buried just like that. Too many horror movies made me think "Man, imagine some graverobber digging up THAT corpse
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A few years later I went to see Gunther von Hagens' "Body Worlds" which I found to be both fascinating and sick and I thought: "Well, at least those dead bodies are put to a good use" and that again reminded me of Ed Gein, who also used parts of the women he killed to stitch up some "nice" chair covers. I was reminded of all that again when watching "Fight Club", where soap was made from human fat
When coming up with the chorus for "Back To The Cemetery" just because it sounded good - I had to find a reason for somebody to go to a cemetery and keep coming back. And in these times, where everything needs to have a reason, a use and a value, the idea came to me, that even dead human bodies can be a natural resource that hasn't really been exploited yet. Graverobbers could make a damn good business by digging up corpses and selling that fat to make fake boobs, selling the testicles in Asia as an aphrodisiac, making lamp-shades out of skin
well, you get the idea. Obviously this is not meant to be a serious song, but rather a satire on a society that will use everything to make a profit. Hmm, this could actually be a good videoclip or maybe a horror-movie. But until then, please check out the song or rather the whole album and let other monster-fans know about The Other. Stay scared! Rod Usher - www.theother.de
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