SCROTIS
Deathmetal Alphabet single

1. DEATHMETAL ALPHABET

2. WARPIG WONDERLAND
( the lyrics to Warpigs set to the
music of Winter Wonderland)

 

On a dark summer night Scott Bond and the Emperor John-Morgan attended a small suburban gathering outside of Chicago. After a short time, the two friends began hearing live music coming from two houses over. It was a teen-age garage band rehearsing 80's pop metal tunes.

As the garage band eked out more and more bad songs, John-Morgan and Scott Bond became more and more angry. By the time the teen-agers had hit the opening chords to Poison's "Unskinny bop", John-Morgan and Scott Bond had smashed open the garage door in an unrelenting rage. Wrenching the instruments from the frightened teen-agers hands, they began a bloodcurdling impromptu of music, at which they ended their "hardcore education" by destroying the instruments. It was at this moment they noticed the session was being recorded onto cassette tape. They returned to their friend's house and listened to their performance. It was met with overwhelming acceptance. It was followed by a contest to come up with the worst band name, and SCROTIS was born.

While waiting to post bail later that night, the two friends decided to use their new venture as a means of education. They set their sites at the untapped area of children's music. Scrotis offers an energetic alternative to learning. They firmly believe parents are tired of the same old sugarcoated children songs they were subjected to as children. Their goal is to be a more aggressive form of music therapy, that teaches, yet provides entertainment enjoyable to both kids and adults.

SCROTIS
DEATHFEST Soundtrack

1. theme from DEATHFEST

2. Blood Waltz

3. Deathfest Rules!

4. Duel of the Fools (part one)

5. Duel of the Fools (part two)

The annals of independent filmmaking abound with stories of great little films created on little more than a beer and pizza budget. Deathfest is what results when there's no money for pizza.

What do you do when you're a student filmmaker in 1992, all of your friends want to be in a movie, it's deathly cold, and you have no cash? You borrow your school's video gear, stage improvised interviews and go outside to beat holy hell out of each other, and call it all "Deathfest". This is no proto-"Jackass" free-for-all. Here the violence takes a back seat to the bewildering (at times) assortment of characters and their odd answers to interview questions, without forgetting the key to so many low budget genre productions: cheap fights, and lots of 'em.

Over the last decade, filmmakers John Morgan Curtis and Bohus Blahut have watched Deathfest take on a life of its own. Surprised at both the number of bootleg copies and requests for a sequel, it was clear that Deathfest had become a badge of early independent digital filmmaking. To celebrate the tenth anniversary John-Morgan went to work on Deathfest: Special Edition DVD, digitally restored from the original masters featuring new special effects, a commentary track, the commercial for the Deathfest videogame, screen tests, a gag reel, and the trailer for Deathfest II: fists of Deathfest.