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They did a blood-filled record for Motley Crüe, a fly-filled record for Alice in Chains, a ring-filled record for the Sonic the Hedgehog movie soundtrack and other weird stuff. One even has scorpions inside it!
Of course King Gizz is like half their catalog
Wooooo!
It's not a band I'm familiar with, but according to the news article I read about the place, the founder's band, Brother O’ Brother, did a limited release album with bits of dinosaur bone and stuff that glowed in the dark in it at $60 a piece thinking no one would buy it and it sold out in minutes, so now it's a business.
Here's the news article- https://www.wrtv.com/entertainment/inside-indy/indiana-record-label-puts-unique-spin-on-vinyl
King Gizzard & the Lizard Wizard.
Oh man, introducing people to The Gizzverse is so much fun. They have 25ish records and like most prog rock bands they're less about individual songs and more about whole albums. This website is a pretty decent guide to getting into them, or this reddit post has a nice flow chart you can follow. Personally I love Infest the Rats' Nest and Nonagon Infinity. The latter is 9 tracks designed to be played on loop without a clear stop or end point
A balancing act that’s gotten the attention of some well-known recording artists including Alice & Chains, Motley Crue and Fall Out Boy, who sent Banta a vial of the band members’ actual tears.
“It's absolutely wild being sent that in the mail,” Banta said. “I took their tears and I diluted them across like 50 records. They didn't tell me they were sending it. I almost threw it away because I didn't even know what was in it.”
Gawdtdamn that's metal as fuck.
don't tell metallica (especially thinking about Load album) :P
My niece once worked in a factory here in Germany that did similar jobs.
I feel like these have to be more fragile than a normal record since they're hollow and I really doubt sand or water are a good thing to suddenly have spilled into your record player
I doubt I'd play one if I had it anyway. It's more a collector's item thing. If I was a big fan of Mötley Crüe, getting a record of theirs filled with blood would be pretty cool.
Saving this for when I have money...
After reading the title I immediately thought "Put an ant farm in it!"
I'm guessing the other similar ideas weren't so much "alive".
Potentially alive until they got pressed into hot vinyl, but probably dead to start with