Danny Dysentery
My Fangs Are Wet
dannydysentery.bandcamp.com
For every rabid fanbase there is a genre of music, it seems. For example, there is a crossing of horror fan culture with pop music that dates back almost to the dawn of rock and roll (“Monster Mash” anyone?). Alice Cooper, Danzig and The Misfits birthed the blood and guts genre we know as horror punk.
In addition to being a member of Iowa City punk band The Ills and the Rochester, Minnesota-based band Please Stop, the mad scientist Danny Dysentery has been experimenting in his secret laboratory bringing life to horror-inspired albums and singles under his own name.
At the risk of bringing out the villagers with torches, Dysentery released his latest creation My Fangs Are Wet. Under cover of night, Dr. Dysentery raided the musical graves of Robert Pollard of Guided By Voices, Paul Westerberg and Luxe Interior of the Cramps to assemble this lo-fi creature. Beneath the thin skin of buzzy AM radio patina beats a bratty rock and roll heart.
It’s not without its charm and sense of humor. The zombie anthem we’ve been waiting for is here in “The Living Dead,” and it owes as much to The Monkees as it does George Romero—“Here they come in full force, they got us outnumbered of course. They’ll eat us up if they find where we’re at, so let’s avoid that.“ The central plot of every zombie movie and TV show all summed up in a 1:17 song. No messing around.
This year, on Halloween, instead of dragging out the tired old haunted house sound effects records, we should all download My Fangs Are Wet and blast it at the little trick or treaters. A little diabolical brainwashing might be good for them.
This article originally appeared in Little Village issue 186.
