NYC power pop pros Valley Lodge are basically the best rock band that you think you’ve never heard of, but that you already totally know. The band’s wildly popular song “Go” is the theme song to HBO’s late-night news satire program Last Week Tonight With John Oliver. Yep, that catchy AF song is by this rad AF group of hot musicians who have the astute knack for creating the jangly pop rock earworms that ring awesomely throughout all of your best-ever dreams. Valley Lodge is known for infusing their hook-saturated songs with a sense of humor, no surprise since they’re fronted by comedian Dave Hill, and although they are more famous in Japan than they are here in the States, that’s all about to change. The group’s new LP, Fog Machine, is a 14-track smorgasbord of unbelievably catchy tunes that will put you in its thrall and make you strut around the house doing Mick Jagger moves long after everyone else is fast asleep. Prepare for instant gratification!

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Editing and animation: Phil Costello and Scott Johnson
Director of photography: Bill Cote
Illustrations: Dave Hill and Scott Johnson
John Oliver-cam: Keith Aumont
Logos: David Bamundo
John Oliver: John Oliver

Valley Lodge is:
Dave Hill- vocals, guitar
Phil Costello- guitar, vocals
Eddie Eyeball- bass, vocals
Rob Pfeiffer- drums and percussion

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Directed by Paul Costello
Cinematographer: Josh Bagnall
Edited by Phil Costello
Assistant Director: Alex Darsey
Production Assistant: Laine Thomas

Cast:
Lance the King of Black Metal as Himself
Matthias Backwards as Himself
Dave Hill as Satan
Alessandra Macfarlane as Lance’s Mom
Jenny Green-McDaniel as Matthias’s Mom
GoGo McGregor as Satan’s Attorney
Pepper Keenan as Goatman on guitar
Alex Darsey as Goatman in woods
Guest guitar solo on this song by Malphas from Carpathian Forest

*NYC! Record release party at The Mercury Lounge http://bit.ly/2VIAST1 4/7! *

WITCH TAINT: EXTREME BIO

From the mean streets of Gary, Indiana by way of Oslo, Norway (or maybe the other way around- we’re not sure) comes Witch Taint, the most extremely extreme and Satanic Norwegian Black Metal band from Indiana ever probably and you can ask anyone.

While the origins of Witch Taint remain hazy, even to the members themselves, there is at least some evidence of the band’s existence dating back as far as late 2004, when Witch Taint founder Lance the King of Black Metal and About 500 Other Things Most People Can’t Handle (rumored to actually be comedian/musician Dave Hill) began emailing a mysterious man named Saittham, managing director of a Norwegian Black Metal record label in Norway, in hopes of securing a record contract (Read their legendary, extreme, brutal and 100% real email correspondence for yourself at www.theblackmetaldialogues.com) despite the fact that he had yet to record any music. However, we also know a version of the band consisting of Lance and his sworn enemy, Oslo native Matthias Backwards (rumored to actually be musician/comedian Phil Costello), began performing live as a duo in 2017, reading the aforementioned emails and playing a select few extremely extreme songs during sold out appearances at SXSW, in London and Oslo (where none other than Fenriz from Darkthrone was in the front row), and at the 2018 Wacken Open Air festival in Germany. These shows were awesome and a lot of members of the audience had to receive counseling both during and after the show because it was so kvlt, infernal, and occasionally foul in odor.

Anyway, after noticing the largely German-speaking audience at Wacken seemed to prefer their music over their talking, Lance and Matthias began recording the full-length debut Witch Taint album as soon as they got back to America. By this time, interest in Witch Taint had grown so much that none other than author Malcolm Gladwell dedicated an entire episode of his Broken Record podcast to the Witch Taint origin story and Lance’s email correspondence.

This past spring, Witch Taint began performing as a full, six-member live band (consisting mostly of members found in the darkest recesses of Craigslist) that is so extreme, brutal, grim, unholy, kvlt, and just sort of negative in general that most people can’t even handle it basically even if everyone agrees the Witch Taint T-shirts are pretty awesome and they should really consider keeping more mediums in stock but whatever.

The band’s full-length debut Sons of Midwestern Darkness, recorded entirely in darkness in a damp room that was also annoyingly cold even if you wore a coat and a hat and stuff the whole time, is set to be released by Tee Pee Records on 4/10/20. The album is extremely difficult to listen to in all the best ways and features guest appearances from members of such not-nearly-as-extreme-as-Witch Taint bands as Venom, Carpathian Forest, & Autopsy and also Lance’s dog Lucifuge because they forgot to keep the basement door shut even though she will end up coming down there every single time no matter what. Sons of Midwestern Darkness is a twelve-song collection of extremely grim yet very catchy & danceable heavy metal anthems that are perfect to get hammered and sing along to with all your closest friends and enemies. There are also five extremely extreme interludes where Lance and Matthias Backwards basically school motherfuckers on various topics, which is awesome. If you think you can handle it, which-statistically speaking anyway-you probably can’t, please get yourself a copy. And by all means, come see the band live (where Lance and Matthias will be joined by the destructive tendencies of opera diva La Sinistra [rumored to be Jennifer Valle], bassist Dean Ripper [rumored to be Dean Rispler], guitarist Thomas Guillotine [rumored to be Tom Beaujour], and drummist Markus St. Bastard [rumored to be Dave Richman]) for an assault on yours and a lot of other people’s senses. However, whether you decide to kill yourself, go sit in a ditch for a while, or simply stare off into the distance for a disturbingly long amount of time as a result of having done either one of these things, that is not Witch Taint’s fucking problem. Also, Witch Taint has a website at www.witchtaint.com. So there.

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Directed and filmed by Witch Taint
Edited by Phil Costello
Starring Matthias Backwards, Lance the King of Black Metal, La Sinistra, and Lucifuge as themselves.
Instagram and Twitter: @witchtaint

Special thanks to Lloyd Kaufman and Troma Films for the use of Terror Firmer footage.

Burning Pentagram drone footage filmed by Paul Costello and Joshua Bagnall at Fishpot Studios, New Orleans

Matthias’s backdrop painting by Carolyn Carr

Black Metal Street Performer footage directed by Chris Lee.

The Thing with Two Heads footage is public domain/creative commons.

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