SCUM OF THE EARTH - Riggs Got Title Of New Album From Woman Who Ate Her Baby?
August 20, 2012, 12 years ago
On August 28th, SCUM OF THE EARTH will release their new album, The Devil Made Me Do It. Robert Cavuoto of Guitar International recently spoke with singer, guitarist, and band mastermind Riggs; an excerpt follows:
How does this new CD compare to your other two CDs?
"It’s a lot different. It’s got a lot better programming which I’ve been looking for ever since I started this band. I live in Branson, Missouri in the middle of the Bible belt and lucked out and found this kid who’s an awesome programmer and only lives about 30 minutes from here."
I understand that you spend just as much time on the computer writing songs as you do on the guitar?
"Correct. Unfortunately, I’ve never have had a band around I could jam with to come up with new music. If I did, I probably never would have been in a band that uses samples and loops."Tell me where you get your sinister inspirations from for writing all your songs?
"I have no idea. It’s just what I think of. I don’t really think about what I’m gonna write a song about. It could happen to be something I see on TV, some crazy psycho people. You hear about them all the time doing the weirdest, craziest stuff you ever heard of. I guess I remember it all. I compile it all, like the song 'Via Dela Rosa'. That’s a lot of crazy stuff that people do crammed into one song.There are usually better stories on the news that you’d never think of. If you recall there were these stories about people who took that synthetic marijuana and the one in particular was the lady in San Antonio who ate the toes off her three-day old baby, then ate his heart and brain.
When the cops showed up, she was sitting on the couch stabbing herself in the chest saying, “The devil made me do it”."
To read the interview in its entirety, click here.
The first single off the new album, ‘The Devil Made Me Do It III’ was released last month. A video for the song was shot in Ft. Lauderdale, FL at The Native Village. Directed by Tim King (SOIL), the clip includes: live snakes, Riggs in an alligator pit, zombie voodoo girls, fire breathers, lots of blood, and wild animals. Check it out below:
Catch Scum Of The Earth live at the following shows:
August
31 - Kansas City, MO - AftershockSeptember
1 - St. Joseph, MO – Tremors2 - Steger, IL - Another Hole In The Wall
4 - Barrington, IL - Penny Road Pub
5 - Newport, KY - Thompson House
6 - Ft. Wayne, IN - Hammerhead's Music Hall
7 - Detroit, MI - New York New York
8 - Louisville, OH - Carriage House
12 - Buffalo, NY - Broadway Joe's
14 - Syracuse, NY - Monneray's
15 - Duncannon, PA - Rock Kats
16 - Greensboro, NC - Arizona Pete's
