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Remember Disgorge, Mexico, that weird ass looking movie I was talking about that was directed by David Hall and inspired by the Fuck the Facts album of the same title? Well, our PLPs (platonic life partners) over at Metal Injection have debuted a clip from the film, and – not exactly shocking – it’s weirder than Nergal singing country music. Check it, yo:

The song is “Kelowna,” by the way. If you can’t figure the name of the band that recorded it or which album it appears on, well, then, congratulations – you are a ree-ree and you can now go collect some disabilities payments from the government.

-AR

Did anyone see Today is the Day’s Axis of Eden DVD? I only got to see some of it, but it was some pretty trippy shit, and clearly there was a mind behind it that was as willing to think outside the box as TITD main man Steve Austin.

That mind belonged to filmmaker David Hall, who now returns with Disgorge, Mexico, a film based on the album of the same name (minus the comma) by Fuck the Facts (read our review of that record here). A press release tells us the following about the flick:

Described by Hall as “a substance abuse art house riff on the destructive and volatile nature of love,” Disgorge, Mexico: The Movie is a violent, hallucinatory depiction of one woman’s strange journey, set to the soundtrack of Fuck The Facts’ Disgorge Mexico.

Costumes for the film were created by Nekro, known for her costume design work for Arch Enemy’s Angela Gossow.

Plus, Agoraphobic Nosebleed’s Jay Randall (who is easily one of the best tweeters in the world) says that “It’s like your eye is a cock, balls deep in a peyote button butthole.” So there’s that.

Disgorge, Mexico doesn’t have an official release date yet, but it should be out soon on DVD and as a digital download. You can check out the trailer by clicking the image below. If said image doesn’t make you extrememly curious, something is wrong with you.

-AR

It always happens this way; you wait and wait and wait for a band you love to come around, and when they finally do they’re playing at the same time as that other band you’ve waited and waited and waited for. So it is tonight in NYC, FOUR-fold. So if you’ve still got an open card for the evening, check out at least one of these awesome shows, and if you’re ambitious and have deep pockets lined with cab money, check out all four! It’s a great night to be a metal fan in NYC, with headliners Wetnurse, Origin, Amorphis and Kataklysm sitting atop 4 totally well-rounded and deep tour bills.

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This past Spring Vince and Axl had the privilege of meeting Topeka, KS-based technical death metallers Origin at the video shoot for their new song “Finite.” Antithesis, the album from whence it came, is a hell of a record (read Axl’s 4 out of 5 horns review here), and in between takes at the video shoot guitarist Paul Ryan told us a bit about its creation. So it’s with extreme honor that we present to you a MetalSucks co-sponsored Origin tour, featuring Misery Index and Fuck the Facts on select dates. The tour is currently winding its way through Canada and will hit a handful of Eastern and Midwestern cities through early October. Full list of remaining dates are after the jump.

And while you’re at it, check out some live footage at UVTV of Origin performing earlier this year in Rochester, NY.

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Welcome to Grind Aficionado, for the connoisseur with taste for subtlety and an ear for quality.

Our Pick of the Week is a new collection from the Fuck the Facts grindhouse titled Disgorge Mexico. Don’t be fooled by the name as this is actually a female-fronted, summer variety of grind prepared in Ontario, Canada, a collection that boasts 14 new and exciting flavors for 2008.

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That’s the question my girlfriend asked me while reading a press release about Psyopus over my shoulder.

Sigh. The joys of dating a non-metalhead.

ANYWAY, what said press release told me is that Psyopus will be heading out on tour at the end of this summer with Fuck The Facts, War From A Harlots Mouth, and Success Will Write Apocalypse Across The Sky. I mean, Success Will Write Apocalypse Across The Sky is possibly the dumbest name ever (and the initials spell SWWAATS, which is odd), but I don’t know their music, so for now I’ll give them the benefit of the doubt.

ANYWAY, below, check out Psyopus’ video for “Pig Keeper’s Daughter,” and then, after the jump, get the tour itinerary for “The Grinding Into Cataclysm Tour.”

Psyopus- “Pig Keeper’s Daughter”

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Fuck the Facts have posted a new song, “Vangorge,” on their MySpace page… although it will apparently not appear on their forthcoming new album, Disgorge Mexico. So I don’t even really understand why they posted it. I guess for hardcore fans. Except I don’t know if a band this small-fry has any hardcore fans, save for their moms and significant others.

ANYWAY, here’s what band member Topon Das (fifty bucks say that kid got called “Tampon” a lot in high school) had to say about the song:

“I just uploaded ‘Vangorge’ to our MySpace player. This track was created during our 14 day road trip to write our new album Disgorge Mexico, using pre-production recordings we made at various stops along the way.

“Though this is not a song that will appear on the new album, ‘Vangorge’ still gives you a listen into the writing process of the new album as well as a distorted preview of some of the music that will be on Disgorge Mexico.”

God, I hope this isn’t a distorted preview of Disgorge Mexico, because it’s a really, really boring song. And I really, really wanna like this album. Maybe it’s just because I’m still so floored by Pig Desotryer’s Phantom Limb, but I feel like I haven’t heard a decent piece of grind in for-ever.

-AR

[Via Brave Words & Bloody Knuckles. If anyone from Relapse is reading this, for the love of God, please start sending us press releases. You're literally the only label that still doesn't do that. Seriously. I just got a press release about Jason Mraz, and there's about as much chance that I'll write about him as there is that I'll finally give in and go to the Container Store with my girlfriend. We want to write about your bands. It's good for us and good for them. So just go ahead and add us to your mass e-mails. I know you can do it. I believe in you.]

Fuck the Facts’ Relapse debut, Stigmata High-Five, was a good enough slab of grind to make me wanna hear a new album from them, see what else they have up their collective sleeve. Looks like I’ll get my chance when the band release their new album, Disgorge Mexico, later this summer (again on Relapse). If you don’t know the band, here’s two songs off of Stigmata. Dig it.

Fuck The Facts, “The Wrecking” – Stigmata High-Five (Relapse)

Fuck the Facts, “Carve Your Heart Out” – Stigmata High-Five (Relapse)

-AR

I have no idea if this is true or not, but someone recently told me that Steve Austin (the legendary musician, NOT the pro-wrestler and NOT the Six Million Dollar Man) made current Today is the Day drummer Derek Roddy wear a bullet proof vest during his audition for the band so that Austin could shoot him as he played in order to test his skill under pressure. That seems incredibly extreme and totally fucking fuck nuts if it’s true, especially since Roddy’s skills have already been tested in Hate Eternal, but, uh, hey, it’s still a pretty cool story.

ANYWAY, Austin taking his band out on the road is always cause for excitement, but the fact that’s he taking a rotating support line-up of some of our favorite bands out there right now with him – including Rwake, Lair of the Minotaur, Fuck the Facts, and our friends in the most excellent At All fucking Cost – just makes this tour that much more worthy of your time and money.

After the jump, get a complete list of tour dates, along with a list of which bands will playing which shows.

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I don’t know if this video is “official” or fan made or what, but just like Fuck the Facts’ music, it has an awesome home-made feel to it…

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-AR