INCUBUS
A CROW LEFT OF THE MURDER
A CROW LEFT OF THE MURDER
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MEGLOMANIAC
SICK SAD LITTLE WORLD
INCUBUS 1965
FUNGUS AMONGUS
PARDON ME
LIVE IN THE LIVING ROOM
THE GARDENING INCIDENT
THE TRUE SCOOP
A CROW LEFT OF THE MURDER
It’s what made them famous, but the Southern California band, Incubus, is far more than just pop-rockin’ tunes like ‘Drive’ and ‘Wish You Were Here’. Their new album, ‘A Crow Left of the Murder’, exposing a raw edge and captures the same energy in their recordings that you might experience at one of their amazing live shows.
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1. An evil spirit supposed to descend upon and have sexual intercourse with women as they sleep.
2. A nightmare.
3. An oppressive or nightmarish burden.
MEGLOMANIAC
The opening track of ‘Crow Left of the Murder’ is their first released single dubbed ‘Meglomaniac’. It’s a politically charged rampage calling out to the establishment to keep itself in check, 'Hey megalomaniac/You're no Jesus/Yeah you're no f***in Elvis/Wash your hands clean of yourself baby and/Step down, step down'. Those entering T-Shirt King’s Political Humor Contest might take a few cues from these rockers.
SICK SAD LITTLE WORLD
They sixth track on their new release might be their best yet. It’s a six and half-minute rock odyssey that culminates in a Jimi Hendrix influenced thrashing guitar solo finale. 'The world is a drought when out of love/Please come back to us/You're all of the above/"I'm making a choice to be out of touch, leave me be" he said/"Leave me here in my stark raving sick sad little world!"'
INCUBUS 1965
In 1965 a black and white horror film called ‘Incubus’ debuted to many critical acclaims in film screenings and festivals world wide, yet before it could be released to the public, a film lab mistakenly destroyed the original negative and all of the prints. The film was lost forever. The story followed the young blonde succubus who is bored with luring corrupt and sinful men to their doom and instead decides to tackle the challenge of seducing a truly good man, played by a very young William Shatner. She is defiled when she fails to understand the power of love and must summon an incubus to help exact her revenge. Luckily for all of us, a missing print was recently discovered and the film is now available on DVD.
FUNGUS AMONGUS
Incubus debuted with their self-released album, ‘Fungus Amongus’ in 1995. Their sound was fresh and conglomerate, combining a metal funk rock with hip-hop and electric elements provided by DJ Lyfe. Over time they would switch up DJ’s such as when they contributed to the ‘Spawn’ movie soundtrack with DJ Greyboy. More recently they teamed with DJ Kilmore when they hit the road with Limp Bizkit, System of A Down and the Ozzfest.
PARDON ME
Lead singer Brandon Boyd was inspired to write the hit single, “Pardon Me’ after reading about spontaneous combustion.
LIVE IN THE LIVING ROOM
Their new album was recorded in Brandon Boyd’s living room where they assembled a M*A*S*H* unit style recording studio. He had this to say at a recent Sony Pictures Studios concert of contest winners, "We didn't want to go to some rehearsal studio, so I sacrificed my living room for rock and roll. It was really fun, actually. I had an entire band's worth of equipment in my living room that I could play with all the time. That and you were never late to practice."
THE GARDENING INCIDENT
The new album is compiled with a bonus DVD. The disc features a dramatic re-enactment of how Boyd had his foot severed during a bizarre gardening incident. In the reenactment a man meanders through his backyard scooping up dog poop, slips on some missed droppings and suffers a brutal fall that severs his foot at the ankle causing a fountain of blood to spray into the air.
THE TRUE SCOOP
Well the truth isn’t too far from this faux dramatization. Boyd was repotting a tree in his front yard when step backward onto a sharp broken pot shard which scooped a hand-sized hunk of flesh out of the back of his leg, severing 90% of Achilles tendon. The craziest part was his neighbors’ gardeners were using loud leaf blowers so no one could hear his cry for help. "It was almost comical because I was grabbing my calf trying to make a tourniquet. Maybe I was in a little bit of shock because I couldn't make a lot of noise at first. Finally I got enough of a voice to yell really loud, and I heard [my girlfriend say] 'What?' She was kind of annoyed, I think [because she didn't know what had happened.] I said, 'Please help me, call 911,' and she called the paramedics." Aye yi yi. Well, we’re all glad that Boyd has bounced back and is now once again on tour.
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