{"title":"Poison Fang Society","description":"","products":[{"product_id":"courtroom-wedding","title":"Courtroom Wedding","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"\" style=\"caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 18px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none;\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"\" style=\"-webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; margin: 0px; font-width: normal; line-height: normal; -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0);\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: rgb(255, 255, 255);\"\u003e\u003ci class=\"\"\u003eCourtroom Wedding\u003c\/i\u003e, the feral new album by singer-songwriter-punk rock legend Chris D.’s new unit Poison Fang Society, succeeds In the Red Records’ release of two expansive albums by the bandleader’s Divine Horsemen, \u003ci class=\"\"\u003eHot Rise of an Ice Cream Phoenix\u003c\/i\u003e (2021) and \u003ci class=\"\"\u003eBitter End to a Sweet Night \u003c\/i\u003e(2022).\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"\" style=\"-webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; margin: 0px; font-width: normal; line-height: normal; -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0);\"\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"\" style=\"-webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; margin: 0px; font-width: normal; line-height: normal; -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); min-height: 15px;\"\u003e\u003cbr class=\"\"\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"\" style=\"-webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; margin: 0px; font-width: normal; line-height: normal; -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0);\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: rgb(255, 255, 255);\"\u003eThe taut, economical eight-song set grew out of several songs penned in the immediate wake of the COVID pandemic lockdown and originally envisioned as material for a third Divine Horsemen record. But logistical problems involving the band’s co-lead singer Julie Christensen’s ability to record in Los Angeles led to the formulation of a new solo configuration rooted in the past.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"\" style=\"-webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; margin: 0px; font-width: normal; line-height: normal; -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0);\"\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"\" style=\"-webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; margin: 0px; font-width: normal; line-height: normal; -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); min-height: 15px;\"\u003e\u003cbr class=\"\"\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"\" style=\"-webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; margin: 0px; font-width: normal; line-height: normal; -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0);\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: rgb(255, 255, 255);\"\u003ePoison Fang Society guitarist Larry Schemel, most recently of Death Valley Girls, and Tucson-bred drummer Johnny Ray are both veterans of the eight-piece lineup heard on the Flesh Eaters’ 1999 album \u003ci class=\"\"\u003eAshes of Time\u003c\/i\u003e. They are joined by bassist-keyboardist-guitarist Sharif Dumani, who also engineered the collection and co-produced with Chris D.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"\" style=\"-webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; margin: 0px; font-width: normal; line-height: normal; -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0);\"\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"\" style=\"-webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; margin: 0px; font-width: normal; line-height: normal; -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); min-height: 15px;\"\u003e\u003cbr class=\"\"\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"\" style=\"-webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; margin: 0px; font-width: normal; line-height: normal; -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0);\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: rgb(255, 255, 255);\"\u003eThe songs Chris brought to the studio reflect a shift in style: “I was really trying to write some more traditional kinds of songs, but not make them sound really anonymous. On the last couple of albums, the Divine Horsemen albums, there was a lot more cut-up stuff. I still did some cut-up in the lyrics with this record, but not as much. The lyrics to ‘Cellars to Weep’ were very influenced by songs like Bob Dylan’s ‘Subterranean Homesick Blues’ or ‘Highway 61 Revisited,’ even though song doesn’t sound like that. I wanted to keep that kind of surrealist humor that Bob Dylan has — those nonsense phrases that add meaning when they’re all put together.”\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"\" style=\"-webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; margin: 0px; font-width: normal; line-height: normal; -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0);\"\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"\" style=\"-webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; margin: 0px; font-width: normal; line-height: normal; -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); min-height: 15px;\"\u003e\u003cbr class=\"\"\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"\" style=\"-webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; margin: 0px; font-width: normal; line-height: normal; -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0);\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: rgb(255, 255, 255);\"\u003eWith tracks inspired by subjects as diverse at the gun-toting MAGA couple who pointed their weapons at Black Lives Matter protesters (“Goddamn Thieving Shame”) to the sleazy come-on cover lines of ‘50s pulp paperbacks (“Sex Kitten”), \u003ci class=\"\"\u003eCourtroom Wedding\u003c\/i\u003e flexes a lean, potent sound that recalls the knife-edge attack of the Don Kirk-era Flesh Eaters and the heavyweight vibe of Chris’ second solo album (as Stone by Stone), 1989’s \u003ci class=\"\"\u003eI Pass for Human\u003c\/i\u003e. Like this punk grand master’s finest work, it displays an electric, tormented immediacy.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"\" style=\"-webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; margin: 0px; font-width: normal; line-height: normal; -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0);\"\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"\" style=\"-webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; margin: 0px; font-width: normal; line-height: normal; -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); min-height: 15px;\"\u003e\u003cbr class=\"\"\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"\" style=\"-webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; margin: 0px; font-width: normal; line-height: normal; -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0);\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: rgb(255, 255, 255);\"\u003e“\u003ci class=\"\"\u003eCourtroom Wedding\u003c\/i\u003e sounds more live than the Divine Horsemen records,” Chris says, “and I think that’s a good thing.”\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"\" style=\"-webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; margin: 0px; font-width: normal; line-height: normal; -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0);\"\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"\" style=\"caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 18px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; text-decoration: none; margin: 0px; font-width: normal; line-height: normal; -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0);\"\u003e\u003cbr class=\"\"\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"\" style=\"caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 18px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; text-decoration: none; margin: 0px; font-width: normal; line-height: normal; -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(0, 0, 0);\"\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"In the Red Records","offers":[{"title":"LP","offer_id":47530938630309,"sku":null,"price":25.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"CD","offer_id":47530938663077,"sku":null,"price":10.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0336\/8929\/files\/ITR414ChrisD-POSIONFANGSOCIETY-CourtroomWedding.jpg?v=1772153605"}],"url":"https:\/\/intheredrecords.com\/collections\/poison-fang-society.oembed","provider":"In the Red Records","version":"1.0","type":"link"}