Jello Biafra and the Melvins
This is not really *new* per se, since it seems the release was back in October, but I just heard it on WUSB (90.1 Stony Brook) today. Jello Biafra teamed up with the Melvins and released an album on the alternative tentacles website! The partnership came about after the Melvins approached Jello, still seething after the other members of the former Dead Kennedys staged a “reunion” without him.I’ve only heard one tune off of “Never Breathe What you Can’t See” so far called “Caped Crusader” which the AT site describes as “an attack [on] religious fanaticism, and is blanketed in Sabbath-style affected gloom. Biafra– with the “help” of Ashcroft and 9/11 hijacker Mohammed Atta– offers a virulent indictment of zealous anti-terror “crusaders”: “God is great/ God is love/ We must kill infidels!”
Being a Sabbath fan of old, I dug the brooding metal riffs which were a diabolical foil to Jello’s incensed (and insane-sounding) diatribe.
There’s more info on the Melvins site (if you search a bit)
Comment posted on 2-5-2005
I have been listening to my backlog of downloaded Jello Biafra spoken work pieces and they are a lot of fun. Believe it or not, he’s far left of me, hell, he’s as left as you can go. Much fun.
The DK’s really fell out when the other members wanted to sell rights to a tune to, I think it was, a Levi’s add and Jello said no.
I love seeing all the little punkers in town wearing DK t-shirts these days! It’s awesome. On a few occasions I’ve had the chance to tell tale of the good ole days back in ‘84 (before they were born) when I saw them on Halloween.