The Omen

EIGHTEEN AND I LIKE IT… if you survived trips 1-17 with one tiny speck of psychedelic sunshine intact, Brown Acid The 18th Trip will be your coming of age nightmare. Vintage underground ’70s hard rock, coming at you from bizarre angles, local scene wasteland America when everybody was out for themselves and the drugs went bleak. The guitars kill, the attitude is twisted, even the sex is headed down the wrong road. Real people, no compromise, pure and potent. Get stoked, take the 18th Trip and know that the artists will get paid for pulverizing your soul!

Oscar-winning composer Jerry Goldsmith has written scores and themes for well over 250 films and TV shows. His work has been thrilling fans for nearly fifty years. Widely acknowledged by his colleagues as a master of his art, Goldsmith has received (in addition to the Oscar for his score to The Omen in 1976) five Emmy Awards, nine Golden Globe nominations, and seventeen additional Academy Award nominations.

“The world suffers violence, and the violent shall take it by force.” Broken and distorted soundbites of cult leader Jim Jones giving his final, suicide-enticing sermon mesh with growls and brazen, angry guitars to open Wolves Among the Ashes. But Jones’s horrid words lose their original lunatic ardor here. Instead, they become vessels of poisonous derision for the French blackened death metal outfit Svart Crown on their fifth full-length, while the music wraps around this and similar ideas of subservience, foolishness, and madness. A caricature of and opposition to the tyranny of cult leaders born of the same cloth but with much larger flocks than the Peoples Temple.

Live From London 2006 is a 2008 DVD by The Fantomas Melvins Big Band, a combination band involving members of Fantomas and (The) Melvins. The performance was shot in England at the Kentish Town Forum.