"Bombshell From Hell" is Sleaze Freak 's first single, which is going for radio adds October 15. A performance video for the track-directed by Ron Najor (Angels & Airwaves)--was recently shot in Los Angeles and should invade TV and Internet airwaves within the next couple of weeks.
The new music, 13 tracks of searing stripper-metal, capitalizes on the same formula which worked perfectly on BLAH...BLAH...BLAH..., but with more guitar solos, slick, percussive bass lines and Riggs' trademark blood-steeped lyrics. The first single, "Bombshell From Hell," flaunts a hard-driving, instrumentally lacerating sound, which screams out to the world, letting us know that Scum Of The Earth are unleashed and getting their dead on once again.
Sleaze Freak -which was written and produced by Riggs--contains 13 new songs (including "I Am Monster," "Macabro Expectaculo" and "Corpse Grinders"), a cover and 28-page full-color booklet with exclusive artwork by self-proclaimed "Freakazoid" artist Paul Garner, plus a bonus 30-minute DVD packed with unbridled, no-holds-barred confessions by Riggs, featuring behind-the-scenes footage of Riggs and the band. Myspace.com diva and metal goddess, Metal Sanaz, also appears on the DVD, recording her vocals on "Love Pig." She's been posting video blogs of the band from recording sessions shot at Studio 2100 in Springfield, MO since June.
Most of the songs on the new album were recorded with Riggs' one-of-a-kind "Skin" guitar. It's a custom Fernandes Vertigo guitar wrapped in real pigskin that's been sewn together. Riggs is planning to have various artists tattoo the pigskin in the future. Two tattoos currently decorate the guitar: one of a skull and crossbones and one with the words "f*** you" along the top which only Riggs can see when he's playing the guitar.
"I wanted it to look like 'Leatherface' from 'Texas Chainsaw Massacre,' except on a guitar," explains Riggs. "I'll have it forever, so I'm planning on having a bunch of artists put tattoos on it. Hopefully it'll be a few years before it starts to fall apart, although it's already starting to smell and rot a little. But it's still cool. It also kind of looks like Freddy Kruger's face."
He is also the owner and creator of another one-of-a-kind guitar made by Fernandes--a lucite one filled with fake blood, which can be seen in the "Bombshell From Hell" video. "I put it together with the president of Fernandes years ago," says Riggs. "We messed around with water to make sure it wouldn't spill out when I played it. It sounds amazing."
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