Hindsight is at all times 20/20, however for ex-5 Finger Loss of life Punch drummer Jeremy Spencer, the previous is way clearer wanting again at his ill-fated Psychosexual and Psycho Synner initiatives. You might not bear in mind them, otherwise you solely bear in mind them with a snarky joke connected to it, however the initiatives noticed Spencer dressed up as a satan, performing campy songs like “The Torture By no means Stops” and “Let the Sin Start.”

It was… tough.

Properly, it seems Spencer acknowledges how the general public felt about that exact a part of his profession. Whereas talking with Blabbermouth, he admitted that the initiatives he created to distance himself from his time in 5 Finger Loss of life Punch had an uphill battle from the get go.

“It was fairly an expertise. I wished to do one thing actually completely different from Loss of life Punch. I wished to do one thing visually stimulating and enjoyable. It was purported to be lighthearted and enjoyable, however earlier than we found out our core sound, we launched some tacky and boneheaded songs early. I don’t assume we recovered. Folks mentioned, ‘This sucks.’ I mentioned, ‘Maintain on! It’s going to be completely different.’ We went on to launch 11 albums and 9 in someday. We labored our asses off. Folks fucking hated it. I used to be a simple goal.

“I acquired to expertise plenty of completely different types of music. I did a tune with Dave Wyndorf from Monster Magnet. To me, that was superior. And we had seven number-one songs on the secondary radio market at rock radio. It was a band that did some cool issues on the radio however may by no means break by into the general public. They didn’t care. Now, Semi-Rotted is the one factor I’m specializing in.”

9 albums in someday was… formidable, to say the least. Particularly when it looks like his affiliation with FFDP might need tainted his mission from the beginning, given how a lot everybody on the web makes use of that band as a punching bag.

However let’s be actual right here. That Psychosexual and Psycho Synner shit was turbo cringe. It was the sort of factor you’d play to your buddies to see how lengthy it took for them to show it off or stroll away.

Nonetheless, it’s factor Spencer’s taking his skills away from the make up and tacky songs about sin and intercourse and specializing in the extra demise metallic sounding Semi-Rotted.