MAYLENE AND THE SONS OF DISASTER SHOW THEIR SOUTHERN ROOTS IN NEW VIDEO
Wednesday, August 5th, 2009 at 1:30pm by Vince NeilsteinThere must be some kinda smart juice in the Jameson. ‘Cause two months ago the record label gave me free reign to choose a track to premier from Maylene and the Sons of Disaster’s rippin’ new record III, from which I chose “Step Up (I’m On It),” and lo and behold it’s now been chosen as the second single. Vince 1, everyone else 0. It’s the small victories in life, people.
This is a bad ass video for a bad ass song. From the looks of it the clip was filmed somewhere in the U.S. south, possibly near the band’s hometown of Birmingham, AL. For those wondering what the newly minted MetalSucks Mansion Kentucky Korner looks like, this is a close approximation.
NOW ROCK.
-VN
so, copying deliverance verbatim, playing a lifeless and uninspired southern rock riff, and having long hair+beards+tattoos = badass?
our definitions of badass vary greatly, sir.
Youre an idiot
explain why i’m wrong rather than act all internet about it.
Alright.
You don’t the meaning of the word “verbatim.”
“Lifeless” and “uninspired” are two horribly subjective terms. These are not facts, merely your opinion.
The song and video being “badass” are more than the summations of their wardrobe and hair.
You’re an idiot.
*know the meaning of the word “verbatim.”
Vincent, your a douchebag. This band sucks!
Yeah, I like that a lot. I’m going to dig into that album sometime real soon.
With all the shit talking that happens on this site I cant believe that you guys at metalsucks actually like this stupid band.
Youre also an idiot
fun stuff
Saw this band play in a little church in mobile a year ago, pretty good. My brother opened for them. Was wearing my 13 year old Machine head burn my eyes shirt, with the let freedom ring with a shotgun blast. Had my arms folded watching them play and the singer points at me and mocks me folding his arms and shaking his head up and down! I had to chuckle. I stuck out like a sore thumb though having long hair and being metal I guess. Most bands there were awful metalcore doing stupid ass dance moves like they are fighting invisible ninjas! ha ha
thats cause dallas is the shit. period. saw them once couple years back, he came out drunk as fuck, still drinking on stage, it was hillarious, and the music was good too.
i cant decide if the video’s homage to “deliverance” is respectable or stupid as fuck, but i know im leaning towards terrible since the song’s rigged with cliches and doesn’t fit any kinda soundtrack for absurd forest raping
Didn’t know Kirk Windstein drummed.
kiiller video, badass band
i like these guys
You gotta love the drummer.
Vince, pardon the dude love but you fucking nailed it brother. This band just doesnt get the love it deserves….Seen them live three times and everytime it was like it was brand new. I got drug to warped last year(free ticket so it was more like a mopey walk) and Dallas was out with bad Yodeling strings so they replaced each song in the set with other frontmen from the “tour” and it was just as good….I was pleasantly surprised(in the non homoerotic way) how many other bands showed up at the miniscule hurley.com(retard) stage to support these guys.
The day Dallas Taylor left UnderOath was the day that band went 2 and half inward somersault head first into the shitter.
If theres a god these guys wont go the way of the 15-17 year old mainstream horseshit
From RollingStone.com: “The band charged into Tennessee’s Buffalo River to shoot the ‘Deliverance’-themed video for ‘Step Up.’ ‘It was the real deal,’ Taylor says. ‘We hit some rapids actually tipped over. I had to kill a water moccasin at one point. … They were always around where I grew up around them, so I was used to it.’ Keep an eye out for Crazy Horse canoe rental in the clip as well.”
http://www.rollingstone.com/rockdaily/index.php/2009/07/22/breaking-maylene-and-the-sons-of-disaster/
I couldn’t view this at work and had to wait until I got home. Being from the South myself (Birmingham, specifically), when the comments in this thread mentioned that it parodied “Deliverance” I was hesitant to even bother with this video. I figured I would reserve judgment until I saw the video. Having seen it, I will say this: If they did this to exploit the world’s perception that we’re all ignorant, inbred hillbillies, the band would have earned nothing but my enmity for their efforts. The way they did this, though, makes me think that they did it to OWN that perception (in other words, as a kiss-off to prejudicial fuckwits). If that is indeed the case, then they might have just earned my respect. Regardless, the song is fun.
If nothing else, I respect the balls it took for them to run around in their underwear in a video to be saved for posterity and countless people to watch as many times as they want. They must be swinging low and heavy.
maylene and the sons of disaster, if you’re reading this, no matter how many albums you put out, you will still just be bunch of insincere fucking trend-hopping douchebags. you are a third rate every time i die at best. and unless you’ve spent your childhood knee-deep in cow shit, please quit pretending like you actually give a shit about southern rock, and go back to whatever suburb you crawled out of.
everytime i die is a third rate maylene. got that shit backwards son.
here is a little time line for you in case you haven’t been paying attention.
1998 – every time i die forms
1999 – 2002 – every time i die puts out a bunch of shit no one cares about.
2003 – every time i die releases “hot damn!”. they release two singles from this album, “ebolarama” (which no one gives a shit about) and “i been gone a long time”, the latter of which nearly instantly influences most every shitty screamo band with its elvis-circa-motorhead swagger, most notably with artists like he is legend and these douchebags: http://www.myspace.com/thehollyspringsdisaster. this is also the year that maylene vocalist is “asked to leave” underoath. possibly because he rocks too much. possibly because he eats his own shit.
2004 – maylene and the sons of disaster form.
August 23, 2005 – Every Time I Die releases “Gutter Phenomenon”. It is a hit with retarded kids who like to pretend they grew up listening to Skynyrd instead of Green Day.
October 25, 2005 – Maylene & The Sons of Disaster releases their self-titled album, brilliantly riding on the coattails of music Every Time I Die put out two years before.
March 20, 2007 – Maylene & The Sons of Disaster finally do something before Every Time I Die & release their second album, aptly titled “II”.
September 4, 2007 – Every Time I Die release “Gutter Phenomenon 2″…I mean…”The Big Dirty”. It is not clear whether it is a reference to the Trailer Park Boys movie or waking up on a tour bus, only to find Keith Buckley’s cock shoved into your ass.
i mean, i could really give a fucking toss whether or not people are doing the whole southern rock/hardcore cross-over thing. honestly, i have no idea the concept hadn’t taken hold a long time ago. probably because kids worry more about what alternative press thinks than good music.
but to me, everything about this band smacks of insincerity and they seem utterly and completely manufactured for the sole purpose of taking your money. which i suppose is an admirable thing to do, but it’s nothing that i believe is worth aspiring to if you are actually trying to be a worthwhile human being.
Cool song. Also the shreddy bit at 2:40 was fucking ace. I’d love to see more bands combine Southern rock with shred guitar.
they remind me of saliva :(
saliva????? are you fucking kidding me? these dudes don’t deserve to be compared to those halfwit peons.
It sounds like like White Zombie, Raging Slab and White Cowbell Oklahoma. Except for the fact that those bands kick ass. Maylene does not do well in the ass-kickery. Hipster southern rock, if you will.
And I really wanted to like them, because Demi Lovato told me that they rock…
Well, at least the drummer’s cool.