PEOPLE STILL CARE ABOUT (HED)P.E.?
Wednesday, December 10th, 2008 at 1:54pm by Vince Neilstein
Slow news day. Hangovers. Let’s fire up the ol’ nu-metal hate machine, shall we? Consider it our own less-witty version of the Decibot.
When it comes to D-rate nu-metal whipping boys, there’s really no better target than perennial suckmeisters (hed)p.e. Apparently encouraged by the rabid success of their “Heavy Hitters Tour” (no, unfortunately you don’t get to hit them), the band is putting out a new album on January 13th, a press release tells us. If one new (hed)p.e. album doesn’t satiate your fix for steaming piles of turd, January 13th is your lucky day: the band is releasing THREE versions of the same album, each with different covers and bonus tracks! Yowza!
I know you’re still aching for more…
Thankfully, the band has set up a new “online community” at NewWorldOrphans.com. The site takes its name not only from the title of the forthcoming album, but from the fact that the band has taken to calling their fans “orphans.” Yes, really. Says frontman Jared Gomes:
“Now why are we calling our fans orphans? Because we are all orphans in today’s world. We have been forgotten and left behind by the powers that be. So we are now uniting and taking back what is rightfully ours. We want to meet the most loyal of our family of orphans and link up on the road before shows, so we are able to sit down and have real conversations of what is going on our world and our communities. As you know HED PE is on a mission to spread truth, and break down the walls that surround our lives. Unite and stay tuned as we take back our country one orphan at a time.”
The mind boggles.
-VN
meth-head faggot music
Who the fuck is hed pe?
i liked their first album… the 2nd one had a few ok tracks… but beyond that, its just a crapfest of poop.
It takes six guys to make the shit that they call music?
OK, I will take the punishment for saying this, but it is apparent that Hed PE still maintains a certain level of relevancy or else they wouldnt be steadily releasing a new album every year, while they aren’t the greatest thing ever, they at least bring more to the Nu-metal table than the average Nu-metal band, such as their reaggae and punk rock influences and it doesn’t hurt that their lead sing/rapper is a minority, which always equals credability. Right?
Dont they always tour with that horrid group Kotton Mouth Kings?
This is music for people who wear Jnco pants and like ICP
No thxs!!
The title of this editorial implies people cared about them in the first place. Why would you lie like that?
While I’m not embarrassed to say I’ve seen Hed a handful of times, I do think this news is pure shite. Why even bother putting out a three-version album cover when:
A: The genre you are pigeonholed in is extinct
and
B: CD’s don’t sell anymore.
This gimic worked for Korn in the late 90’s, but that was a completely different music business. Honestly, a band that’s this low on the totem-pole should give their music away for free to maintain a fan-base. That’s how you (hopefully) fill the 200-capacity venue you’re playing next week.
Facesofmeth.fuck/annoying
What I like about (Hed) pe:
1, They make me laugh, Silly sex and drug humor.
2, still doing the same ol’ thing, even though it isn’t the popular syle of music anymore. Dare I say, THAT IS METAL AS F*CK. ha. Although, they are not really metal, more hip-hop/bad “punk rock”.
3, See reason #1
Does this mean that we’ll be talking about desperate metalcore and deathcore bands 10 years from now?
That photo makes them look like a bunch of guys from the unemployment line, which probably isn’t far off from the truth.
Paxl – Turn that question into a statement.
Funny story- My first exposure to the Hed was when they opened for Slayer. Does this actually mean that FUCKING SLAYER used to listen to Nu-metal just like all the rest of us pretenders or does this mean that Slayer got whored out by their tour promoters? Either way, shame on Slayer for not being snob proof.
So we have 4 Limp Bizkit cds coming out this year?
uhh….fuck all you guys hed p.e. is badass
Broke was a great album but since then they’ve released nothing but crap. It has nothing to do with them being “nu metal”(ugh I hate that term) it has to do with them running out of ideas, losing bandmembers, and releasing crap.
did you hear Diabolus in Musica? sounded like a nu metal album to me….
Headline should be “People Ever Cared About (hed)p.e.?”
First off, let me confess that yes, I purchased their first two albums and enjoyed the first one. Yes, I have been to a Hed PE show on 3 occasions. It stopped there. The lead singer was such an ass! For them to come out and beg to hear from their “orphans” is a damn joke. When I saw them years ago and tried to talk to the lead singer he talked down to me and asked if I wanted him to sign my cd. Like I was beneath him. I’m just a regular (not famous) person just like you, and now after you treated your fans like shit, you want to embrace us? I say fuck off. Not only do they think they are better than everyone else, they really talk shit about women during their shows. Aren’t we some of the people paying for your gas money on your bus and putting food in your mouth? I for one will not be buying one of their three different cd covers.
Paxl, Johnny Death,
They’re already there.
there was a time when i may have owned a PUYA cd.
Any artist from Suburban Noize Records should just do everyone a favor and stop making music.
at least they’re better than bison bc
Wow every Hed fan gets their very own version, 3 may be one too many.
earth2tom:
shame on you, actually, for thinking that slayer (or any other band that signed something similar to a 9-album contract when they were only 21-22 years of age) ever had much of any say as to who they tour with. slayer opened for a very trendy band at the time, WASP, in 86-87. ten years later they had system of a down (who went on to fame years later, sadly) and other nu-metal bands open for them. ten years later its lamb of god, killswitch engage, and now trivium opening for them.
beginning to see how this business works???
not the least bit ashamed to admit these guys were my first pit… they opened for suicidal, who tore ass, btw, but this was before their first album, of which the first 6 songs were dope, to an impressionable high-school kid like myself.
their second album however, failed epically (HA!) and i realized that they went the way of korn, bizkit and all other late 90’s rap-metal bands.
although my first memories of this band were cool as fudge, and their second album (i actually bought it {*shudder*}) did hold some “novelty” (due to the endless supply of tail i received when this was hot) I cant really imagine why these fucking lames would release a third or even fourth,”is this their fourth?” album.
miss the days when their singer wore a Burger king beanie as opposed to the shitty “re-invented” image after their second album when he went al Marilyn Manson
P.s. I dont give a fuck, never did, never will. (google it)
P.s. met the singer once and he was a fucking douche. their second album had a hidden track you had to be on meth for to find the password online for… fucking “enhanced” cd’s…w/e. anyways asked him in person to give me the password and he treated me like every other hot bitch on the scene back then. He dissed me. way to treat your fans, asswipe. and another thing, i never heard the orphan deal, must be some kind of ultra-urban maggot thing… again, W/E’s
Haha. New World Orphans Red version, Blue version, and Yellow version?
Come to think of it, Pokemon was my first experience with Peer-to-Peer sharing, which the reason the three slightly different albums gimmick won’t sell three times as many albums.
I hope they don’t think they’re crap genre is making a comeback. I’ve never heard these douches and from what I’m reading I’m glad I didn’t. Fuck them, Fuck “nu-metal” what an abortion! I love Anthrax but I’m so mad they opened the window to this wave of crap that assaulted metal in the late 90’s.
@Old Skool Metal
You should actually blame Faith No More/Mr. Bungle. Ya’know that sound that Korn “invented” and all the nu metal bands started ripping off? It’s called the “bungle” chord. Red Hot Chili Peppers was also a big influence.
Anthrax doesn’t deserve 90% of the cred they get for influencing nu metal.
ANYWAYS
I’ve never heard of this band. Ever. And I’M a nu metal fan. Srsly.
O, forgot to mention that the Beastie Boys were doing the whole “rap rock” thing several years before Anthrax.
UR absolutely right about FNM/Bungle/RHCP and Beasties. The only difference though is that none of those artists were Metal. They were all their own unique thing with their unique fans. I’m cool with art and I don’t mind other forms, hell I actually enjoy the very non-metal The Mars Volta but I digress. The reason I’ve always …..well I’m over it WAS mad at Anthrax is that they were the first legitimate “METAL” band to start rapping. This encouraged music labels to start marketing this stuff as metal. In the nineties being a metal head sucked. Metallica thought they were Soundgarden, Slayer was mailing it in, Testament…I don’t know wtf happened to Testament in the 90’s. The only metal that existed was Pantera (which i didn’t like) and Death Metal bands, which didn’t really tour much to my part of the country. Metal Magazines were littered with photos and stories about crap bands like “shrimp triscuit” “porn” “syndrome of a down” and some funk band that stole the name Incubus from a real metal band that already existed. Any way that’s were my anger at anthrax came from. That’s all H2O under the bridge whatever at Least Metallica are seeming to find their balls again, I love their new record. I hope Slayer kills on their next one. Cannibal Corpse is gonna release some new madness soon I hope and hopefully I won’t have to go to anymore Metal festivals where I’m surrounded by idiot kids walking around with their baggy jeans talking about “yo yo yo metal is tha Shiznit dog.”
Hed PE is NOT “nu-metal” or “metal”. They are a PUNK ROCK band. And they are GREAT.
mr_Izan, Hed PE never changed their “image” because they never had an “image” to begin with. “Images” are for shitty mainstream bands that lack talent (Slipknot, Limp Bizkit, Linkin Park, Korn, etc.) – Hed PE are REAL ROCK AND ROLL. They have always been about the music. They never had any big hits because mainstream music fans gravitate towards crap, with the occasional group with legitimate talent (I.E., System of a Down and Rage Against the Machine).
yes, they did change their image, i watched the transformation myself as a fan (my have times changed) hed pe are pretty much mainstream, they get songs on the radio, it’s just they dont receive any rotation due to the lack of quality in their music. Not even mainstream sheep will accept them. and no, real rock n roll are bands like ac/dc, Gn’r, and Bruce springsteen and all that shit. Hed Pe sounds nothing like that. They sound like a lamer version of limp bizkit. I maintain about half of their first album is awesome, i still like it. Have you heard the difference between that one and the second one? Have you seen the difference in the image when they toured both albums?
If you say you cant see a difference, it’s because you only heard of them after their mainstream radio hits from their second album “broke” or you’re a totally ignorant tool who doesn’t know what the fuck he’s talking about.
get yo facts straight before you post
make up your mind btw, are they punk rock or real rock and roll? you can tell the difference between those two, right?
I wouldnt go so far as to say hed pe is better than bison bc…but if your from cali and the rock rap thing was around your day…hed has relevance. And MCUD is a fucking rockstar in every sence of the word, except hes not dead yet.
Amerikan Beauty by Hed Pe -
Back door in the club
I’m not lookin for love
I’m lookin for a big butt
To squeeze on these nuts
I’m not tryin to think too much
I’m just tryin to get fucked and drink too much
Lil bitch – don’t be so serious
Don’t get mad cuz your girls wanna be with us
In the club – show love
Have a drink on us
“Hey yo dog I think this girl wants to get fucked”
Yep. That is some underground punk rawk shit right there. I think its probably just a bit too intellectual for mainstream music and that is probably why they never blew up or got much air time. Oh wait…
I actually looked them up wondering if you guys were just being hard on them because they were nu-metal…they are such fucking shit. I want to cry after listening to that shit. Appologies to Vince for doubting him, and condolences to the world for someone actually creating shit like that.
i just thought id join the defence of hedpe, i think they make some funny weird ass music, not nu metal, they started a small impact and then went under the small radar,
why the fuck is this website even wasting their time trying to prove how much cooler than hedpe they are?
i bet that singer would knock the fuck out of the guy who wrote this…..
oh yeah… cos thats what it all comes down too, FUCKIN VIKING LAW!
and i bet instantly half of you dumbassess that read this will automatically assume that i know nothing about metal and that im a wigger or something.
SO….
assume away… and get really mad!
Everybodys got to have a dream.
Shootingfishinabarrelcore
mr_Izan – Limp Bizkit STOLE their style. Not only that, none of Limp’s band members are talented. Durst can’t rap, Borland can’t play the guitar, etc. Hed PE can actually play their instruments and rap, etc. And their music isn’t the same “play-the-same-four-chords over and over” bullshit that appeals to mainstream sheep. And Hed PE actually talks about real issues, instead of spending all their time whining about how they can’t get laid, like Durst used to do.
Hed NEVER changed their image. You have no idea what you’re talking about. I’ve been down since CHURCH OF REALITIES. They’ve always been the same. Musically, they’ve experimented with different things, BROKE taking influences from classic rock and world music, ONLY IN AMERIKA influenced by hardcore punk, BACK TO BASE X influenced by classic punk, and INSOMNIA influenced by thrash metal. But they’ve never had an “image” or “changed”.
They are both real rock and roll and punk rock. Self-producing their own music, releasing it independently through a punk label? That’s hardcore.
dthrasher, listen to BACK TO BASE X and INSOMNIA and tell me that Hed PE are not intelligent.
Today’s the day
The time is here
We take back control
And conquer our fears
For as it was written my friend
So shall it be
I ride with the most high
Who can stand against me
Ride with me
An advance towards the light
In the darkness
I break it down slowly
Roll up and spark this
In this moment on this track
I attack all the lies
We accepted as truth
We were duped
By the schoolbooks and teachers
The blind leading the blind
Through the garden of eden
But time after time
We had the prophets to lead us
Still line after line
Was written down to deceive us
But they will never defeat us
Until the end of time
I will rebel in the face of all tyrants
The fire burns on high
As above so below, now be careful
Until the end of time
We will fight for the rights of our children
The fire burns inside
My curiosity leads me to Zion
In the year 20-07 AD
The working man got so tired of waiting
Not all those who have eyes
Will see what I’m saying
Not all those who have ears
Will hear a note that we playing
Homie you know me
I don’t fuck with no phonies
All these cronies in this industry
Can all kneel down and blow me
I came to do battle
With the counsel of churches
Politicians and gunmen
Who would lie, rob, and hurt us
Keep us deaf, blind, and dumb
So we cant find out guns
Asleep when the storm troopers come
For our moms
So run nigga run
Til you cant catch your breath
It’s too late
Cuz you already dead
But you wide awake
You already dead
But you wide awake
You already dead
But you wide awake
You already dead
You’re in a fucking coma
Until the end of time
I will rebel in the face of all tyrants
The fire burns on high
As above so below, now be careful
Until the end of time
We will fight for the rights of our children
The fire burns inside
My curiosity leads me to Zion
Listen carefully
I don’t have much time left
There are so many things i want to tell you
But we gotta be careful
I think I’m being watched
Galileo was imprisoned by the church
For exposing that the earth was not at the center of the universe
So in 1616 they already had control
Of what they thought you and i were allowed to know
They knew the world wasn’t flat
But that was knowledge we weren’t supposed to have
They knew all about the new world
Way before Christopher Columbus set sail
Witness the rebirth of Atlantis
And we’re all apart of it
What a beautiful fucking time to be alive, eh?
LOL WUT…
They’re like jews ….they keep trying to steal money from ….everyone.
I CARE about Hed PE. I have all their albums and I can find something interesting on each of them. They’re very different – some of them are “nu metal” but nowadays they’re more into thrash and punk. And their lyrics are varied – from f***ing and smokin to some more serious stuff.
They’re not ded yet and the new one will be their 7th or 8th album, actually.
I heard two songs from it already and they’re really cool, hard tracks.
The only thing I don’t like is the 3 versions that only have 2 bonus tracks and different covers. Dammit, i’m a fan and still I’m gonna but only one.
Here’s their website it any of you would like to check them out before dissing them:
http://www.myspace.com/hedpe
BTW, this is an old picture, from about 2003.
Didn’t you have a newer one..? :P
Hed PE is PUNK. And they’re great!!!
But yes, the rest of Suburban Noize “artists” are crap.
B2R D4L !!!
Mark,
not gonna lie. i haven’t been down since church of realities. but shit, anybody can wiki a bands discography.
you are a tool
and speaking of tools, isn’t it an unspoken rule that it’s usually only douchebags who wear their own bands t-shirts when they perform?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Jahnov19.jpg
I’ve just got to say here…what the FUCK are you talking about? “Anybody can wiki a band’s biography”? What does that mean?
Have you listened to ANY of the band’s music? Firsty? Swan Dive? All of Back 2 Base X? If you can listen to “Suffa” and tell me that Hed is another shitty nu-metal band, you are deaf.
And who the fuck cares what MCUD wears on any given night? Don’t you think that bands want to make back the money they were given to record and release an album so they can continue to create music? So they WANT people to buy their damn albums. Is that a crime?
Britney Spears’ latest record cost about $5 and was made with very little effort. Punk rock costs money and takes time and effort to get together.
if we’re still arguing about this i saw “suffa” premiere on headbanger’s ball when it came out ..so somebody liked it enough to put on tv, or somebody paid alot to have it on tv. lol the point is i think their fucking cool.
If you cannot see talent in this, you know nothing about music.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZeZV8gDJmdc