Los Angeles, California: It seems like forever, but it really isn’t… forever, that is, since word first started percolating about a new album from the Brains.
How it was one of the loudest, loosest and, therefore, loveliest records they’ve ever made. How the turbulent trio of Rene De La Muerte, drummer txernobilly and bassist Bruno Malo aren’t simply storming the barricades, they’re building new ones simply so they can knock ‘em down again.
In other words, it’s classic Brains meet modern horrors, all incendiary guitar riffs, heart attack percussion, batshit bass and the most gorgeously ghoulish punk rock attitude! Two singles have already set the scene for the main course, “Evil” and “Feel No Pain.” Now prepare yourself for “Darkness,” “Candy Apple Red,” and the rest of this 12 song horror show, because if you don’t pick it up yourself, it’ll probably reach in and grab you instead.
And if you don’t believe us, catch the graveyard garage fury of The Brains’ new video, crushing the new album’s “Crazy Monsters” title track with spooky contact lenses, glamorous companions, and a quick march through one of London’s most atmospheric cemeteries, the Highgate, north London resting place of Karl Marx, Malcolm McLaren, Douglas Adams and more.
Plus, of course, the lair of the legendary Highgate Vampire.
Not to mention Professor David Edward Hughes, the late Victorian inventor of the telephone microphone, and the man who discovered wireless waves years before Marconi grabbed all the credit. The good professor’s ornate family vault is one of the many hidden treasures of the cemetery, and it is truly a costar in the “Crazy Monsters” video.
"Highgate Cemetery captivated the intro and outro with its beautiful esthetics, and great history," says Rene. "The other scene was filmed in a reputable dungeon in London, as well.
"We also ended up having the luck to snap the album cover during the filming by none other than the great photographer David Hindley."
It’s a glorious video, stygian glamor in a vivacious void, with the band (and friends) clinging like ivy to thunderous rhythms, dementoid riffola and a melody that digs so deep inside your mind that who knows what will crawl out of there.
Who’s the crazy monster now?
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