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The yet-untitled film was directed by Mandy Stein and Ben Logan and traces the history of the band from their formation in Washington, D.C. in 1979 to the present day. In addition to tons of footage from the band’s vault, the movie includes interviews with all four members (vocalist HR, guitarist Dr. Know, bassist Darryl Jenifer and drummer Earl Hudson) and their manager Anthony Countey, as well as testimonials from Henry Rollins, ex-Minor Threat and Fugazi vocalist Ian MacKaye, ex-Minor Threat guitarist Lyle Preslar, ex-Cro Mags vocalist Jon Joseph and guitarist Harley Flanagan, Murphys Law guitarist Jimmy Gestapo and Beastie Boys’ Adam Yauch, who produced Bad Brains 2007 album Build a Nation.

In addition to giving birth to the hardcore movement with their song “Pay to Cum” and inspiring all of the aforementioned musicians in the process, the Bad Brains had a huge influence on a new breed of late ‘80 and early ’90s metal bands, including Living Colour, Faith No More, 24-7 Spyz and Fishbone. While the Bad Brains flick is currently in post-production, it will be ready for release in a Jamaican minute.

Taken from metalunderground.com

Categories : Dub, Metal, Rock, art, cinema, music, video

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Feb

Pay Ya Dues

By FRANKDEE · February 1, 2010 at 4:36 pm · (0) Comments

Categories : music, video

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Jan

DOZE

By FRANKDEE · January 28, 2010 at 8:11 am · (3) Comments

New work by Doze Green is now on view until February 13th at the Jonathan LeVine Gallery in New York

Categories : art, music, video

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Jan

Weekend Randoms

By FRANKDEE · January 26, 2010 at 7:21 pm · (0) Comments

Spent the weekend in NY with 13th Witness. Excuse the shitty iphone pics.

Check his Site for some real visual crack!

Categories : Decibel Devils, Deftones, Pictures

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Jan

xTEEN ANGELSx

By FRANKDEE · January 20, 2010 at 10:45 am · (0) Comments

Categories : art, design

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Jan

DSZT x DFTNS x DBDVLS

By FRANKDEE · January 18, 2010 at 9:15 am · (0) Comments

Was in So. Cal this weekend for the NAMM convention. Its become an annual thing for Abe and myself and always a good time. Crook joined us again this year for a weekend filled with gidget gadgets, friends, enemies, dwarves, prodigies, drunkards and many many laughs.. oh yeah, and work.

Before we headed back north we met up with big Slick for lunch at Tantalizing Thai. We knew it was on when they were calling Slick by name. We were not disapointed! Drunken Noodles, Halibut panang, Garlic salmon, Siam triangles…. Only thing we missed was the crying tiger steak. Next time..

Good food, good ol’ back in the day reminiscing, good times!

Abe, Crook & Slick

Slick & Frank “not” taking a smoke break.

Just getting started… Halibut Panang, Pad Kee Mao.

Crook doodle

Slick doodle

Frank doodle

Discussing the next colab!

Check Slicks pics here

Categories : Decibel Devils, Deftones, Dissizit, Dj, art, familia, food

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Jan

Lord of the Logos

By FRANKDEE · January 10, 2010 at 6:36 pm · (0) Comments

Fans of underground black metal music call Christophe Szpajdel the Lord of the Logos. This eponymous book is a collection of hundreds of Szpajdel’s powerful logos, each of which captures the force of this genre anew.

The hallmark of Szpajdel’s work is his surprisingly fluid combination of letters with visual elements from art movements such as art deco and art nouveau. But Szpajdel’s most important source of inspiration is nature: roots and trees as well as bats and other creatures. In addition to the impressive selection taken from the thousands of logos this passionate metalhead has already created, Lord of the Logos also contains photos of dark forests, desolate moors, and gnarled branches that are closely related to his work.

Through his use of unusual aesthetic influences, Szpajdel has brought a new dynamic into the gothic visuality of heavy metal. He has not only succeeded in leaving his own visual mark on this music, but has expanded the canon of forms it uses. The book is done in the style of a black prayerbook, an appropriate choice for an artist whose fans in the black metal community worship him as the Lord of the Logos.

Out soon from Gestalten.