APPARENTLY, DAN SPITZ HAD NOTHING TO DO WITH ANTHRAX’S SUCCESS

Monday, June 29th, 2009 at 4:00pm by

deuxmonkey

Holy shitballs. Former Anthrax guitarist and current Christian midget watchmaker Dan Spitz has started a new project, DeuxMonkey, and it’s so objectively stupid that I’m amazed it’s not directed by Michael Bay.

First of all, there’s the name of the band. Technically, “DeuxMonkey” means “two monkeys,” except that a) “monkey” isn’t pluralized for some reason and b) one word is in French and the other in English, making Spitz retarded in two languages. And I don’t even know what the fuck he thinks the name “two monkeys” (or “TwoMonkey,” as it were) would mean; is this a phrase common amongst watchmakers, or little people? Someone please explain it to me.

Second of all, to call the music horrendous would be an insult to horrendous bands everywhere. I’d rather watch my entire family get killed than listen to this. It would seem that Spitz and his “band” – which consists of former members of Accept, King Diamond’s band, and some dude in mask – are striving to create the kind of industrialized alt-metal that groups like Nine Inch Nails, Ministry and Marilyn Manson popularized in the  90s, except that a) it’s not the 90s anymore and b) even in the 90s, no one would have listened to this.

Third of all, as you can tell from the above emblem, the band has hired a graphic designer of the highest order to do their artwork for them, and by “a graphic designer of the highest order,” I mean “Spitz’s nephew who flunked out of his day camp arts and crafts class.” Seriously, my dog could make better art than this. I know because I gave him a canvas and he did, in fact, make a cooler piece of art than the above:

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In conclusion, this band is, as Vince might say, a shitstain on the ass of the universe. I’d give you a MySpace link to check them out for yourself, but fuck you.

-AR

  • Vikingfromhell890

    I see now why you didn’t post the link to the myspace page. Just awful.

  • shit sandwich

    ive heard worse, but this shit does suck

  • Sammy

    To be fair to Spitz, who I’m not fond of by the way, Joey Vera has always been a HUGE part of Armored Saint’s sound, but his solo album was the worst rock music I have ever laid ears upon.

  • phale

    maybe the deux is a celine dion reference. turns out she has an album called d’eux. i googled it because i suspected he was going for ‘god monkey’, as in deus ex machina. but that just means its even lamer– for the god reference, and also for using an x where its not warranted.

    the songs on myspace arent so good, and the graphic art is shit (perhaps ironically so), but i think the style is kind of interesting, and not 90s at all. better than killswitch engage, anyway!

  • Sammy

    That said, it sucks. Badly. Yes it sounds like a bad copy of Korn. Okay, a WORSE copy of Korn. Spitz should go back to watchmaking or letting his drummer write his guitar solos.

  • http://www.hibernum.net hibernum

    Maybe it is a joke. Deux sounds similar to deuce, and deuce means poop, and maybe this is like poop from a monkey…

    Hey, hilarious use of a picture of poop. Ok, now fess up, how long did you have to google to find that picture, and what horrible things did you see on the way? Come on, share!

  • BlakMetallistKrieg

    It’s like really crappy industrial rock with blak metal vocals. shit. I saw Anthrax a couple years ago opening up for Judas Priest and they fuckin’ sucked. Their singer just cussed out the audience for 45 minutes and they occasionally played a mundane song here or there. Redundant.

    • BlakMetallistKrieg

      Priest were great, though :)