Rock Bible
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| Rock Bible | ||||
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| Studio album by | ||||
| Released | 1990 | |||
| Recorded | 1989 | |||
| Studio | Catshit Studios, Hollywood, Los Angeles | |||
| Genre | Heavy metal Sludge metal Psychedelic metal | |||
| Length | 41:50 46:02 (2007 CD rerelease) | |||
| Label | Mentor | |||
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Rock Bible is the third studio album by American heavy metal band the Mentors. The lyrical content changed from sexism to the band's personal turmoil, although there were some sexist songs and one, "My Daughter Is a Strawberry", had racist lyrics (tongue in cheek, as Insect on Acid, who is African-American, was a member of the band during this time period):
Gonna get my shotgun out tonight
And show her the power of the White
A bullet in the gun
And down to Compton to have some fun— Eldon Hoke, "My Daughter is a Strawberry", 1989
It was only available on cassette on its original release. Rick Lomas (Insect on Acid) plays drums on most tracks, due to El Duce's increasing struggles with alcoholism. Bootleggers sold bad-quality MP3 rips of the tape bundled with the Get Up and Die EP as CDs before an official CD version was released in 2007, remastered from the original cassette. The album was released on LP for the first time in 2023, with a bonus disc containing unreleased material from the original sessions.
Lyrics from "Cardboard Condo" were reused in the track "Living on Welfare" from El Duce's 1993 solo album Slave to Thy Master.
Track listing
[edit]| No. | Title | Length |
|---|---|---|
| 1. | "Constantly Jackin'" | 7:41 |
| 2. | "Sit on My Face and Squirm" | 3:51 |
| 3. | "Sexual Fantasies" | 2:22 |
| 4. | "Hilljack Heaven" | 4:00 |
| 5. | "Chicks with Dicks" | 3:50 |
| 6. | "Turned You Into a Lesbian" | 4:36 |
| 7. | "Panhandler" | 3:35 |
| 8. | "My Daughter is a Strawberry" | 4:07 |
| 9. | "Cardboard Condo" | 4:44 |
| 10. | "Jump Through the Hoops" | 3:04 |
| 11. | "Vulture of Love" (Bonus track, only available on 2007 CD rerelease) | 4:12 |
Demo tape
[edit]| Rock Bible (demo tape) | |
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| Demo album by | |
| Released | 2003 (leaked) |
| Recorded | November 17, 1989 |
| Studio | Catshit Studios, Hollywood, Los Angeles |
| Genre | Heavy metal Sludge metal Psychedelic metal |
| Length | 33:42 |
A demo tape from the sessions that produced this album, recorded in 1989, exists. The tape was acquired by a Mentors fan from a friend of the band in 1993, before being uploaded to the Internet ten years later. It contains unmixed versions of "Constantly Jackin'", "Chicks with Dicks", "Panhandler", and "Cardboard Condo", as well as 3 otherwise unreleased tracks: "Million Dollar High", "T-Bird Mama", and "Airhead Stare". The tape also contains studio chatter, of which remnants can be heard in the released album.
A remixed version of "Million Dollar High" would later see official release as a bonus track on the 2019 CD reissue of Houses of the Horny and the 2023 double LP reissue of Rock Bible, with "T-Bird Mama" accompanying the original mix of the track on the latter release alongside "Who Will Be My Next Victim?", a reworked version of the music bed to "Airhead Stare" with alternate lyrics.
Track listing
[edit]| No. | Title | Length |
|---|---|---|
| 1. | "Panhandler" | 4:10 |
| 2. | "Million Dollar High" | 5:20 |
| 3. | "Chicks with Dicks" | 4:01 |
| 4. | "Cardboard Condo" | 4:50 |
| 5. | "Constantly Jackin'" | 7:49 |
| 6. | "T-Bird Mama" | 3:20 |
| 7. | "Airhead Stare" | 4:31 |
Personnel
[edit]- El Duce — lead vocals, drums on Jump Through the Hoops and Hilljack Heaven
- Sickie Wifebeater — guitar
- Dr. Heathen Scum — bass
- Insect on Acid — drums on all other tracks
- Honey Davis — keyboards, recording engineer
