Today it’s been exactly 31 years since Industrial/Metal band Ministry released Jesus Built My Hotrod!
Jesus Built My Hotrod was released on November 7th 1991 as the first single from their fifth studio album Psalm 69: The Way to Succeed and the Way to Suck Eggs. It was written by the band's frontman Al Jourgensen, bassist Paul Barker, drummer Bill Rieflin, session keyboardist Michael Balch, and the Butthole Surfers lead singer Gibby Haynes, and was co-produced by Jourgensen and Barker. The industrial metal track features elements of rockabilly and psychobilly, and is influenced by the Trashmen 1963 hit "Surfing' Bird", and Flannery O'Connor novel Wise Blood; the song’s instrumentation is defined by its polyrhythmic structure.
The single reached No. 19 in the Billboard Modern Rock Tracks chart with approximately 128,000 copies sold as of mid-July 1992, preceding the later success of Psalm 69.
Jesus Built My Hotrod 12”
A. Jesus Built My Hotrod (Redline/Whiteline Version) 8:13
B1. Jesus Built My Hotrod (Short, Pusillanimous * So-They-Can-Fit-More-Commercials-On-The-Radio Edit)
B2. TV Song
Lyrics
Soon I discovered that this rock thing was true
Jerry Lee Lewis was the devil
Jesus was an architect previous to his career as a prophet
All of a sudden, I found myself in love with the world
So there was only one thing that I could do
Was ding a ding dang my dang a long ling long
Ding dang a dong bong bing bong
Ticky ticky thought of a gun
Every time I try to do it all now baby
Am I on the run
Why why why why why baby
If it's so evil then?
Give me my time, with all my power
Give it to me all again (wow)
Ding a ding a dang a dong dong ding dong
Every where I go
Every time you tell me baby
When I settle down
Got to get me a trailer park
And hold my world around
Why why why why?
Ding ding dong dong dong ding dong
Dingy dingy son of a gun
Half my time I tell you baby
Never am I all for sure
Why why why why why baby
Sicky sicky from within
Every time I stick my finger on in ya
You're a wild wild little town bitch
Now how 'bout ding a dang dong dong dong ling long
Dingy a dingy dong a down
Every time you tell me baby
When I settle down
Got to get me a trailer park
And hold my world around
Why why why why?
In my dang a ding a ding a ding dong
A sticky sticky son of a gun
Ding a danga danga dong dong ding dong
Why why never know
Why why wack a dong a dang ding dong
Then you take it on the bill
Ding dang dong don't dong
Whoa!
I want to love ya!
Why why why, why why darling
Do you do you tell me to play?
Half the time I talk about it all now baby
You know what I'm talkin' about I said
Why why why it'll
Ticky ticky ticky ticky son of a gun
Ding ding dong a bong bong bing bong
Ticky ticky thought of a gun
Bing bing bang a bang a bang bing bong bing a bing bang a bong
Binga bing a bang a bong bong bing bong bing banga bong
Bing bing bang a bong bong bing bing binga binga banga bong
Bing bing bang a bang bang bing bong
Ding dang a dang bong bing bong
Ticky ticky thought of a gun
Every time I try to do it all now baby
Am I on the run
Why why why
It'll ticky ticky ticky ticky ticky ticky
Dawn of a gun
Bing bing bang a bong a bong bing bang a
Ticky ticky thought of a gun
Bing bip bip a bop bop boom bam
Ticky ticky through the day
If you got a doubt 'bout baby
The memory is on the bed
Why why why why why
Darlin' uh it don't know
When my time is on
Might tell me never do it on his own
If my time was all as is yours
Make me burn a wish
When my time with you is brutish
No I'll never not ever
Why why why why why why baby heavy hell
Alone and it's here it's this thunder
The thunder oh thunder
Oh!
Jesus built my car
It's a love affair
Mainly Jesus and my hot rod
Yeah, fuck it!
(Allen Jourgensen / Paul Barker / William Fredrick Rieflin / Gibson Haynes / Michael Bruce Balch)
Former Requiem In White/Mors Syphilitica vocalist, Lisa Hammer revives a ritual
Lisa Hammer (Requiem In White, Mors Syphilitica) has just unveiled her limited, expanded edition of her cult classic release, Dakini. Containing three previously unreleased tracks, Dakini finally sees its edition on coloured vinyl.
Dakini is music for ritual, introspection and awakening of the senses. It was designed to carry the listener away from the manifest world and into a deeper space. That ritual is re-visited and re-imagined in the form of three bonus unreleased tracks “Chant Nr. 5”, “Hurdy Gurdy Gavotte" & “Alte Clamat Epicurus”; a seven minute prelude where Lisa surpasses her best self by “spitting” spells and curses.
Dakini is a complete manifesto of inner search in which a lot of influences from different genres of music are presented harmoniously, creating a mystical atmosphere and giving the opportunity to emerge unprecedented vocals, sometimes angelic and sometimes damned as if they come from another period forgotten by the time.
More about the album:
The Indian ragas correspond with times of the day, so the album represents a condensed 24 hours, which is perfect for ritual, or any emotional and spiritual trip. The medieval songs are matched with Indian ragas and tribal drums, Appalachian folk music, Middle-Eastern drones and opera to bring the four directions together: North, South, East and West. It’s a cultural and spiritual mix, all blending together in one album. Each of the songs has its own meditational/trance-inducing quality, regardless of its origin.
Dark ambient project, Cucurbitophobia goes nostalgic with 'Autumnal Apparitions'
Cucurbitophobia, known for their dark ambient, horror-inspired masterpiece releases has just unveiled their latest release in time for the Halloween season.
Autumnal Apparitions is a collection of works inspired by the Autumn season. A rustic, nostalgic, melancholy ambiance is prevalent throughout the album, portraying an ebb and flow between dark, experimental dissonance and lighter, sadder, ambient minor-key driven moods.
Autumnal Apparitions treads more into atmospheric music territory. Unlike previous Cucurbitophobia releases, guitars take a backseat this time around and allow percussion and keyboard textures to be in the forefront. While plenty of delightfully eerie horror elements remain present, Autumnal Apparitions comes forth with more mournful, reflective sensibilities rather than harsh, startling bursts of fear.
Autumnal Apparitions is available NOW on all digital platforms including Bandcamp.
Darkwave Band The Bleak Assembly Explores The Dynamics Of Change With New EP
We Become Strangers is the debut EP from the new darkwave project The Bleak Assembly, a collaboration between Kimberly of Bow Ever Down and Michael Smith of Fiction8. While there are a few electronic textures here and there, We Become Strangers is straight-up post-punk and darkwave. Guitars, drums and songwriting, with hooks for days. This EP sits more comfortably alongside Siouxsie & the Banshees, ACTORS, and Bootblacks than it does VNV Nation or Covenant.
Regarding the nature of "change" that inspired the EP, Michael Smith states: "if there's a theme to this EP, it's in recognizing how we've changed as artists and as people. What if you met your younger self and your younger self didn't even recognize you? That's what "We Become Strangers" is about. Kimberly goes on to say: "It's "a strong feeling of being cut from the past". It's a little alienating but also very liberating."
We Become Strangers is available in digital format on all major platforms, including Bandcamp.
VampireFreaks, the team that brought you the Triton Festival and Dark Side of the Con, proudly present a brand new event called Dark Force Fest; a festival gathering featuring an explosive lineup of the most beloved international bands along with the newest trending artists from Gothic, Industrial, Darkwave and Post-Punk scenes.
Dark Force Fest - Three-Day Goth-Industrial Music Festival
31st March - 2nd April 2023
Dark Force Fest takes place in Parsippany, NJ (one hour from NYC), at the massive Sheraton Parsippany, an imposing castle styled hotel that features 44,000 square feet of event space with 370 hotel rooms. While the hotel rooms in the main venue sold out within days of announcing this festival, there are still overflow hotels in the surrounding area.
This stacked festival lineup includes:
HEALTH, Combichrist (doing a special old-school industrial set), Suicide Commando: (Rare U.S. show), ACTORS, Rabbit Junk, Video Vision, Empathy Test, Solar Fake, BILE, Psyclon Nine & Das Ich: (Rare U.S. show)
In addition to 30+ bands, Dark Force Fest will feature 100+ vendors, a costume contest, cosplay guests, sideshow performers, fun activities and informative panels.
