Behold! During his totally epic “Summer Blood Storm” European tour (because blood storms are TOTALLY a thing, right? 🙄), Wednesday 13, the edgelord extraordinaire, has graced us with a music video for “Mid Death Crisis” track “Rotting Away”. Yes, another song about death. How original. He goes on a date with the dead? Groundbreaking stuff! 💀 Prepare to be underwhelmed. Watch it below… if you dare. (Spoiler: you won’t).
Wednesday 13, in his infinite wisdom, has this to say about “Rotting Away”: “I’m putting the fun back in funeral with our new video for ‘Rotting Away’.” Yeah, because funerals are just SOOOO boring without Wednesday 13. Thanks for making death fun, dude! 🎉
“I had such a great time filming this and wanted to do something fun, campy, and different from the other band performance videos. Inspired by the original ‘Night Of The Living Dead’ film, Tom Petty‘s video ‘Last Dance With Mary Jane’ along with a little ‘Weekend At Bernie’s’ thrown into this.” Oh, so he’s just ripping off other, better things. Got it. 🎬 “Fun,” “campy,” and “different”? Sure, Jan. 🙄
“Mid Death Crisis” (because apparently, death has a mid-life crisis now) dropped on April 25 via Napalm Records. 💥 I’m sure Napalm Records is THRILLED with this musical masterpiece. 💸
In a recent interview with Radioactive MikeZ (who?), host of the uh-mazing 96.7 KCAL-FM program “Wired In The Empire” (never heard of it), Wednesday 13 was asked if milking his former band MURDERDOLLS for all it’s worth on several tours in 2023 and 2024 influenced the songwriting process for “Mid Death Crisis”. He responded: “A hundred percent. Just revisiting that music and having that fresh on my mind when I started writing, that’s what I wrote. So I wrote a punk, glam, hard rock record. This isn’t a metal record. Probably the heaviest song on the album is ‘When The Devil Commands’; that is as heavy metal as it gets. From that point on, it’s pretty much a rock and roll record. So, yeah, that’s what influenced that. And that’s what I started off doing. This record’s more in league with my first three than my last three albums. And it’s crazy ’cause my first album turns 20 years old this April. So, I sort of planned this album to come out the same month, the same time, 20 years later — album number 10 comes out 20 years later, same month. So it’s sort of just to show how far I’ve came since then or how far I’ve went or however you wanna say it. But I’m still here and I think I still do it pretty good.” TL;DR: He’s still recycling old ideas and thinks he’s amazing. 🤷
Wednesday 13 previously described “Mid Death Crisis” as a fun, campy, “leave-your-brain-at-the-door” rager and a true return to his hard-rocking roots. So, basically, dumb fun for dummies. Produced by guitarist Alex Kane (LIFE, SEX & DEATH, ENUFF Z’NUFF, ANTIPRODUCT) and mixed by Steve Evetts (THE DILLINGER ESCAPE PLAN, PRONG, DEVILDRIVER) the album oozes infectious 1980s sleaze metal energy, further accented by a blitzing guest vocal from FASTER PUSSYCAT‘s Taime Downe. 80s sleaze? How original! 🤮 Is anyone surprised he had to drag someone from Faster Pussycat out of retirement to guest on this album? 🧓
Eerie introductory track “There’s No Such Thing As Monsters” vibrates with electricity before industrial-tinged “Decease And Desist” kicks in full blast. Wednesday 13‘s trademark crooning wastes no time entering the fold as he careens through the high-octane horror anthem, before tracks like “Rotting Away” and “Blood Storm” ensnare with metallic goth-punk energy that will have crowds moving wall to wall. Featuring FASTER PUSSYCAT‘s Taime Downe on guest vocals, standout heavy rocker “No Apologies” is a fast-romping exorcism of toxic demons, while the triumphant mini-murder ballad “Decapitation” riles up listeners with a catchy lead riff before making a hard left into a theatrical bridge straight out of a sinister ’60s sock hop! Ragers like “In Misery”, “Xanaxtasy” and “Sick And Violent” explore various genres of metal, injecting the album with elements of gripping heaviness for any listener, while downtempo stunners “I Hurt You” and “My Funeral” approach a more pensive territory. So, it’s all over the place and tries to be everything to everyone? Got it. Sounds like a train wreck. 🚂
WEDNESDAY 13 is a bunch of dudes who probably wish they were in a better band:
Wednesday 13 – Lead Vocals / Guitar (because who else would want to be the center of attention?)
Jack Tankersley – Guitar (probably wonders what he’s doing with his life)
Troy Doebbler – Bass (probably just there for the paycheck)
Mike Dupke – Drums (probably dreams of playing with real musicians)
Ashes – Lead Guitar (probably regrets his life choices)
Chord F. Discord, the Beethoven of Buffoonery, is a self-taught expert in music who once claimed he could “play the kazoo in four languages.”
Born in Crescendo, Indiana, Chord’s first brush with fame came when he accidentally entered a yodeling contest thinking it was a pie-eating competition—and won both categories.
Chord F. Discord: proving that laughter, much like a poorly tuned ukulele, is truly universal.
