MAYLENE AND THE SONS OF DISASTER Premier Clip For 'Darkest Of Kin'
March 7, 2008, 16 years ago
Headbangers Blog reports:
"We’ve got a premiere of the new MAYLENE AND THE SONS OF DISASTER video for 'Darkest Of Kin' to show to you, but first check out this article that appeared on the band in MTVNews.com’s Metal File.
And if you get bored, just scroll to “read more” to check out the page with the video.
You might call Dallas Taylor a little… well… infatuated with the tale of Ma Barker. She was the legendary matriarch of the Barker/Karpis Gang, a band of outlaws whose criminal exploits across the Midwest during the Great Depression gripped the American public. It was a story the Maylene And The Sons of Disaster frontman first heard as a youth, growing up in Ocala, Florida; Barker and one of her sons, who’ve been called “some of the meanest examples of humanity ever known to exist,” were shot dead when the FBI raided a cottage she was renting just outside of - you guessed it! - Ocala, Florida.
The legend of Ma Barker continues to haunt the hard-rocker. In fact, the tale even inspired his band’s conceptual sophomore LP, II, which came out March 20th.
“I’ve always wondered what made Hitler tick - what made him think he was doing a good deed?” said Taylor, who was the original singer for Underoath but left that band’s fold in 2003. “Serial killers too - it’s always boggled my mind, and I’ve always wanted to know why they thought what they were doing was right? I’ve read up on Ma Barker, and she basically thought her family was doing a good deed,” by committing a spree of robberies, kidnappings and other crimes between 1931-’35.”Read more at Headbangers Blog.
