Report: Metal Producer Jason Suecof Channels His Inner Weird Al With SHADOWS BALLS
June 17, 2009, 15 years ago
Noisecreep has issued the following report from Chris Harris:
Anyone who has heard heavy metal producer Jason Suecof's old project CROTCHDUSTER knows the man who calls himself a "fat, crippled Jew" has a phenomenal sense of humor. Ultimately, Crotchduster wasn't a serious band at all, but rather a joke project and a statement on a scene that rarely laughs at itself, or very frequently takes itself way too seriously.
Since his Crotchduster days, Suecof says he's had little time, if any, to work on his own music, having been the very definition of busy the last few years, producing albums for the likes of TRIVIUM, THE BLACK DAHLIA MURDER, BURY YOUR DEAD, GOD FORBID, CHIMAIRA and EVERGREEN TERRACE. But for a while there, Suecof wasn't so busy, and helped alleviate his boredom by crafting spot-on parodies of some of metal's biggest names. For years, some of these joke songs have been passed between bands on the road, building Suecof something of a reputation as the genre's answer to WEIRD AL YANKOVIC.
"They're incredible," commented BURY YOUR DEAD guitarist Brendan "Slim" MacDonald, who has heard some of Suecof's parodies. "To the tee, you wouldn't know the difference. That guy is a 110 percent genius. He could never ever not be good at something he tried to be good at."Suecof's dalliance with joke metal tunes started years and years ago when he still lived in Connecticut. He worked with a bunch of guys in a project called METAL MEAT, and they would routinely create parodies of bands like SEPULTURA and MORBID ANGEL, and try passing them off as the real deal. Then, in time, he started making parodies for Roadrunner Records A&R; titan Monte Conner.
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