History
Spooning With Satan was formed when Alvin "eh... memberssss ..." Anathan and lim peh aka Willy Tan were drinking kopi (surprisingly, not beer) at S-11. We were wondering how come no one has ever thought of combining death metal and country together. That'd make a lethal combination. As what Ah-neh aka Alvin A. has aptly described our sound, "It's simple lah. Slayer-meets-Dolly Parton". Well, we decided to call the "memberssss ..." in. Sujin Thomas heard about it when he came back from Oz in Nov; he took to it like a Russian to vodka.
Memberssss...
GeorgeOur latest "memberssss....". He was supposed to play the 'death harmonica', whatever that is supposed to be. Also known as The Throat.
MelvinAlvin's room mate volunteered to play the spoon. Y'see, Melvin who is classically trained in drums, percussions and vibraphone. As you can tell, he has a passion for skinning the drum and vibrating objects. Ah... what more could you ask for someone like that to join your band?
SujinGuitar whore extraordinaire. He knows like everything from how to identify the year of production from looking at the headstock. What a slut!!! You gotta love him. He handles all the metal stuff in the band, all those palm muting lah, squeal harmonics lah, etc.
WillyWilly plays the guitar and make up all those pseudo-country licks. His real hometown is in Alabama where he had been lynched before. Issit becuz he is yellow?
AlvinNo. 1 slut .. of ALL TIME !!!! He's supposed to do all the Malmsteen stuff and provide the comic relief. As for now, he looks like a Rastafarian who's escaped from Jamaica to this overpopulated isle to look for a bigger bong... and recently claims to be Snoop Dogg's long-lost brother.
Saturday, November 06, 2004
Spooning With Satan is back in action...
We are currently doing an on-line interview with this Singaporean web-zine from this bunch of pussies called Aging Youth Productions. I think we'd gonna put it up soon.
Watch out for it and our to-be-released sophomore album, "Second Coming".
When questioned about the obsession with porn actresses and the implications of such provocative lyrics on youths, Spooning With Satan sent out this message via their press agent. The following excerpt was taken from the Straits Time, Life! section (dated Aug 18th)
**** them! Eh, look at X-tina Aguilera. Huh? 'I'm a genie in a bottle/ you can rub me the right way' Why the hell is that sorta shit allowed to play on the radio while we get all the flak for playing instant classics like "Take Me To Uranus (Where There Is Always Light At The End Of The Tunnel)" or "I'd Rather Do Your Dog Than Your Wife (But Hell, I'd Do Them Both)"
Eh, those skinny lil b****es wear as little as those great AV actresses before they get down to their birthday suits, of course. Our songs do not just carry overt sexual connotation. They are as well beacons of light into modern society and how we as a society behaves. The whole corporate greed thing. They are mainly social commentaries at heart, hiding behind the raunchy lyrics. Reflecting upon the whole porn star fellatio act. C'mon. Which one of us hasn't committed such an act before to your boss?! And look here, getting ****ed in the ass. A large portion of our fans get that from their bosses every single day.
We have our ears and hearts on the streets. We understand how our fans feel. We are not like rich rock stars bonking supermodels though we are. And all about the moolah. Perhaps, 70% ... only.
We at the SWS blog has extracted a portion of the classic Spooning With Satan tune, "Ballad Of Sally Yoshino" in order to support SWS's claims.
Ballad Of Sally Yoshino
I met a lassie/ Her name was Sally/
She used to star in some kinda VCDs/
They complied her best works in a DVD/
Hmm hmm hmm hmm.../
Laa laa laa laa .../
Oh darling Sally/ You know what I need/
Oh baby Sally/ You know what I mean/
I dunno if I should laugh/ or break down and cry/
When I saw you do all those things on TV/
Am I just perturbed at a degraded angel/
Or am I just pissed that the guy isn't me/
Oh darling Sally/ You know what I need/
Oh baby Sally/ You know what I mean/
And where is she now/ You came and asked me/
Now she's a stripper/ I heard from Billy
Hi all fans of Spooning With Satan, in conjunction with the release of "The Life and Tribulations of Henry Geezer", we at http://spooning-with-satan.blogspot.com/ gave an exclusive interview with Rolling Stone. Hell yeah, they sold out in the 80's. So did we!!! Our souls to the devil!! We make such strange bedfellows...
Interview
Rolling Stone: Congratulations on your band's debut album, "The Life and Tribulations of Henry Geezer" making it on the top of the Billboard charts. You guys even managed to knock Metallica off the No. 1 spot on the charts!!!
Willy T: No sweat. We are young, we are energetic and we don't just play metal. We play country-metal!!! Or as we like to call ourselves, death-country.
RS: Yeah, it's a really exciting mix of music. Definitely, it's unique and different from the whole nu-metal scene and the 'nu-garage' thing where the Strokes, the Hives and the retro garage bands reigned supreme. Why, death-country?
WT: Don't be a lazy bitch. Read our blog!!!
RS: Errrr... ummm. Yeah, anyway, where's the rest of your band members?
WT: Melvin's in the UK, keeping his girlfriend company. Boring ass. Billy has walked out of the hotel while we were touring in Wales. He had never been seen again. I've no idea where the hell he went or whatsoever. He just ... vanished...
RS: Woah .... Aren't you guys worried at all for him?
WT: Nah, fuck it. He's most probably doing a Richey James Edwards. Y'know, the guy from Manic Street Preachers who walked out of a hotel and was never to be seen again. Who knows? The two might be screwing each other's arses now. Who cares?! The party carries on...
RS: You guys have been pretty well-known hellraisers on tour. How do you feel about being banned from the Shangri-La chain for life?
WT: No biggie.
RS: What exactly happened?
WT: I think it was during the "Your Wife Looks Like A Bitch But What The Hell" tour. I think we finished all the booze from the bar fridge in our hotel room. Hmmm, I think we managed to nick the other few rooms' bar fridges as well. Anyway, I just wanna know if a Plasma TV can float. So, the bathtub wasn't big enough. I just had to throw it into the pool. It's a pure scientific experiment, innit? Sujin was crazier, the mad fuckin' bastard. He threw out the mattress outta our room window.
RS: Haha, that sounds fun. What floor were you guys staying on?
WT: The bloody 43rd! That's not the point!!! I mean, what the hell were we gonna sleep on since he threw the mattress out? Then George was trying to dare him to jump out of the window in an attempt to get us in the "Guiness Book of Records" or something. When Sujin refused, George wanna do it on his own, the crazy bastard.... We hadta pull him back.
RS: So what were the rest doing during this commotion?
WT: In my bloody purple haze, I vaguely recalled Alvin sitting in a corner with a bong and spanking some groupies' asses. He's a real sick fuck. Y'should see what he does with that bong on groupies....
RS: Ummm, let's not get to details. There was a certain uproar about the direction of your band. The 1st few singles were pure guttural death-country with death-defying (pardon the pun) solos all-round. Some critics even tried to slap the label "progressive metal" on you guys. All the sudden, you guys dropped the heavily disco-tinted "These Stud Muffins Ain't Afraid Of Muff Diving" on the consciousness of the record-buying public. Why the change? What inspired that?
WT: A lotta bands out there change their musical style and direction due to the fact they wanna challenge themselves or some critics won't take them seriously if they keep playing the same old shit again and again. Do we really give a flyin' fuck? Hell no!!! We knew if we seriously wanna expand the groupie base, we gotta do something about it. True enough, the song became our 3rd Number 1 hit and increased our groupie base threefold. Those bitches just wanna hear us sing the chorus: "All we wanna do is to irrigate your canels/ Put your bushy box in our panels/ Baby..../ We'd eat you like there's no tommorrow"
RS: Yeah, everyone in the office loves that song. Well, I believe that's all the time we have for today. Any parting words?
WT: In the 60's, they used to say, "Lock your daughters up cuz the Rolling Stones are coming to play in your town". I say, "Lock up your daughter, mothers and grandmothers. Hell, lock up your dog bitches as well. Cuz Spooning With Satan is coming to play in your town !!!"
Spooning With Satan was formed when Alvin "eh... memberssss ..." Anathan and lim peh aka Willy Tan were drinking kopi (surprisingly, not beer) at S-11. We were wondering how come no one has ever thought of combining death metal and country together. That'd make a lethal combination. As what Ah-neh aka Alvin A. has aptly described our sound, "It's simple lah. Slayer-meets-Dolly Parton". Well, we decided to call the "memberssss ..." in. Sujin Thomas heard about it when he came back from Oz in Nov; he took to it like a Russian to vodka.
The Band
George, our latest "memberssss....". He supposed to play the 'death harmonica', whatever that is supposed to be.
Melvin Leong, Alvin's room mate volunteered to play the spoon. Y'see, Melvin who is classically trained in drums, percussions and vibraphone. As you can tell, he has a passion for skinning the drum and vibrating objects. Ah... what more could you ask for someone like that to join your band?
Billy, my good fren from my secondary school days. Yup, we go a long way back. He was supposed to play something ... but I've no friggin' idea what ... or is he here to ensure SWS can capture the gay market age group from 16 to 25? That could be it ... Hmmmmm..
Sujin, guitar whore extraordinaire. He knows like everything from how to identify the year of production from looking at the headstock. What a slut!!! You gotta love him. He handles all the metal stuff in the band, all those palm muting lah, squeal harmonics lah, etc.
Willy, me... I play the guitar and make up all those pseudo-country licks. I thk I've a cowboy hat lying ard somewhere in my bedroom. Yeeee-ha ...
Alvin, No. 1 slut .. of ALL TIME !!!! He's supposed to do all the Malmsteen stuff and provide the comic relief. As for now, he looks like a Rastafarian who's escaped from Jamaica to this overpopulated isle to look for a bigger bong....
Discography
The latest album from Spooning With Satan, "The Life And Tribulations of Henry Geezer" would be out in stores very soon. Containing hits like 'The Ballad of Sally Yoshino', 'Kobe Tai Takes Five', 'These Stud Muffins AIn't Afraid of Muff Diving' and 'The Life and Tribulations of Henry Geezer'.
News
Unfortunately, both "memberssss....." Alvin and Sujin are Christians/Catholics... something along that line. So, if their mums ever hear their sons are playing in a group called "Spooning With Satan", the two of them will shift the demographic in the homeless population in S'pore. So, officially, now we are known as The Ass People From Uranus. Hmmm.. after this name change, perhaps we can convince Sujin's dad to play accordian for us. Rawk siah, Uncle Thomas!!!
Latest update on this situation:
The moniker remains: We still spoon with the devil himself, Mr. Jack Nicholson.
FAQ
1. We get this question all the time: "Where's the drummer?" We have only one thing to say: "Fuck you and fuck your drummer!!!" Drummers are overrated and we don't want any Spinal Tap problems like spontaneous combusting drummers or shit like that. So we are using a drum machine, simple as that !!!
2. Most likely, one of us will ask one of our Malay barbers to sit in as the bassist. Malay barbers... they ALL are veterans of the music scene. dun believe me? The next time, you cut your hair, ask him about which band was better: Rainbow or Dio?
3. Who the hell is Henry Geezer? Alvin A has this to say: "Henry Geezer is basically a ching-chong Singaporean who has become a SPG in everyway. Starts speaking with an accent and hangs out with angmohs. A real serious case of ethnic identity confusion."
4. Why the obsession with porn stars? Is there really anything better to do in Singapore? The plus point is, of course, we are on good terms with the pirated VCD vendor at Queensway Shopping Centre as well. Hmmm, by the time you read, he should be outta Changi Prison
You might be wondering who this bunch of seriously whacked out fuckers are. But we are not revealing everything yet ... not yet. At least til a few of the memberssss have finished their exams.
Stay tuned ... while we update this blog every now and then.
The Return of a String Yanker aka Return of The Prodigal Son
Sujin Thomas, guitarist for world famous death-country metal band, Spooning With Satan has decided that his absence from guitar playing is not working for him. He has a greater fear of his old ladies (the black american and the japanese red haired) ditching him to find other men to spend those lonely evenings with. Worse still if his ladies get picked up by guitar-slut men seeking adulterous affairs
" I thought i'd hang the guitars up as i wasnt inspired anymore but after a week, i took out my Les Paul and played a bit and found myself an inspiration to keep playing."
" I have realised that quitting the guitar is not an option i can consider at this stage."
Spooning with Satan has yet to acknowledge Thomas' return to the scene but it is expected to go smoothly. Their lates hit single Kobe Tai Takes Five is expected to be completed in the coming months ahead and promises to leave fans gasping for more.
posted by The Toneknobber at 11:56 AM
As Sujin Thomas, guitarist for world-renowned death-country rock band Spooning With Satan has posted on his own blogspot that he is quitting guitar, that did not really come as a surprise to the members at Spooning With Satan. He had mentioned to several publications that he was thinking of hanging up the guitar since November. It would appear that since he has already hung up the guitar, he has decided to pursue his other interests in life. Thomas ' departure from the band which has not really taken place is believed that it will be amicable.
Their unique sound of death-country has been likened to "Dolly Parton-meets-Slayer". According to insiders, the band was eager to follow up their 2nd smash hit, "Kobe Tai Takes Five" and was supposed to enter the studios soon. The unidentified source mentioned that the material sounded "excellent and kept true to their country-metal roots with a new direction". Apparently, Spooning With Satan has introduced a new disco element never heard in their music before.
When questioned about the departure of Thomas, Willy Tan who plays guitars in the band expressed his shock at the news. "This will definitely throw a spanner into our plans for world domination," Tan said with a tint of bitterness in his tone. However, he continued wistfully, " After all, he's still our memberssss. We wish him well and all the best for his future endeavours. It's just that it sucks that we have to look for a replacement guitarist. I mean, we could conduct a nation-wide search for a new guitarist like Limp Bizkit or basically clone Sujin. Hey, with all this modern technology, I'm sure we can come up with something. Since Sujin actually decides not to play anymore, we just gotta tweak his clone and make sure that Sujin ver 2.0 will play til Kingdom come. Sorta like the Energizer bunny."
Huzzah!!!! SWS finally has a blog to call its own!!!
From now onwards, you can get direct news of what each individual is doing straight from the horses' mouths. Of course, this blog will be heavily under construction and we will set up a message forum for all fans and groupies to leave their love and panties.
