Lucifer and the Long Pigs
All our Hexes come from TexasGenre Death Country Band Created 9/20/2010 Total Sales 222
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Band Bio
This group of hell-raising outlaws are second only to Buck Satan and the 666 Shooters when it comes to the darkest, most twisted country & western music this side of the Apocalypse. Lucifer & the Long Pigs sound like what Ghost Rider would write if he started a band made up of undead cattle rustlers and bank robbers-- or, as the band label themselves, "Death Country". Ever read the comic book Preacher? These guys would provide the perfect soundtrack. Forget torch and twang, this is fire & brimstone hotter than the mightiest deep south BBQ. Yee haw and Hail Satan!
Band Members:
Jerry Lee Lucifer - lead vocals, harmonica, rhythm guitar
Zane Baal - lead guitar, pedal steel guitar
Duke Aguares - bass guitar, upright bass, washtub bass
Bud "Pyro" Lingelson - fiddle, piano, Fender Rhodes
The Drummer with No Name - drums, percussion, washboard
Trivia:
For those of you that didn't already know, "long pig" is slang for human flesh used as food, as in cannibalism.
Band Gear
Albums / EPs
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The Last Ride Out
Date Released: 4/3/2013
Tracks: 13 Tarnation! The Long Pigs haven't kicked off an album with a handful of songs this fast & furious in quite some time. From the raging intro track, instrumental save for primal howls and hollers from the band, into "Burn That Damn Barn Down" and straight on through to "Liquor's Quicker," the LLP boys sound determined to tear the door off its hinges. And tear it clean off, they do. Though they catch a bit of a breather on the anecdotal "Trial of Jack McCall," a song about the cowardly gunman that shot Wild Bill Hickok in the back, things heat back up with the title track. They don't cool back down until the last few songs, especially in the form of the tender ballad, "Saguaro Cactus Sunset," where Jerry Lee Lucifer reflects on life and past memories. There is an omnipresent air of finality that pervades the songs on "The Last Ride Out," as if the band's collective fates rest solely upon this set of 13 songs. Every band member pours their souls into their parts, playing harder and with more passion than they have in many moons. For his part, JLL splits his time on the mic singing, almost raving, about bloody-minded deeds and the perpetrators being brought to justice. The unlikely closing cover tune is a haunting, echoing number with low, wide sweeps of pedal steel guitar, deep plucked bass notes, and Hammond organ that simply bleeds resignation. Is this truly the last ride out for Lucifer and the Long Pigs? |
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Lord Unwillin' and the Creek Done Rose
Date Released: 10/19/2012
Tracks: 13 The old expression normally goes, "Lord willing and the creek don't rise," but in LLP's world that time of faith and optimism has passed. In the godless, blood-stained prairie that is their home, the band paints a very different picture, one of gritty darkness and despair. The deluge of activity surrounding their "Badlands" album & tour has receded as quickly as it overflowed its banks, leaving behind a swath of destruction in its wake. Several band members are still wanted for questioning regarding the disappearance of concertgoers. Hotel chains are bringing lawsuits against the band after finding their rooms covered in candle wax, blood, and festooned with the entrails of what appear to be cows & horses. In stark contrast to the full, bombastic production of "The Badlands," "LUATCDR" is intentionally, overwhelmingly minimal. Sparse. Dry like a dead riverbed. You can hear the creak of the strings under their fingers, the creak of the wooden chairs they're sitting on. There is an added layer of gravel and rasp to Jerry Lee's voice, a grim quality to his words. Ominous. Forewarning. Storm clouds are gathering on the horizon. This is the ruin after the flood, the drought before the next wave comes crashing down. "Lord Unwillin' and the Creek Done Rose" includes alternate versions of several songs from their tour-only Badlands EP and a bonus track in the form of a haunting live recording of "Midnight in Santa Rosa (La Llorona)" from last year's South Texas Death Tour-- a chilling end to a chilling album. Produced by Remy Brecht. Released by Formerwageslave Records. |
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Life & Death in the Badlands: Live
Date Released: 6/20/2012
Tracks: 20 Recorded at various stops along The Badlands Tour 2012, "Life and Death in the Badlands" is intended to be THE definitive Lucifer and the Long Pigs live recording. The band changed up their setlist considerably from night to night, and this two-disc set manages to capture all the highlights. The focus is much heavier on original material this time out, with only one very special cover song included in this collection. Older gems such as the Ballad of the Bozeman Trail Strangler are given new life, and new favorites like Voices of the Confederate Dead take on an eerie power in a live setting. The LLP-vs-Squidbitchez fiddle showdown TexMexHex is especially electrifying as you hear the bows squealing and fraying under the frantic playing of their owners. Overall, the recording quality of "Life & Death" sounds full and natural-- you can hear beer bottles clinking and cowboys hollering in the background, and on at least a couple tracks, the mechanical whirring and whooping of people riding mechanical bulls (of which there were plenty within the venues on this tour). The liner notes are full of photocopied news clippings pertaining to the shows, from fist fights and knife fights to strange phenomena, disappearances, cattle mutilations, and most troubling, suspected homicides. While this recording can never replace the hellfire & brimstone experience of actually attending a real Lucifer and the Long Pigs show, it manages to be the next best thing. As always, YEEHAW AND HAIL SATAN! |
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The Badlands
Date Released: 2/16/2012
Tracks: 13 Howdy once again, pardners an' sinners alike. This here is The Badlands, the newest musical document from LLP, a band of hustlers an' rustlers, law-breakers an' life-takers. The Badlands is an audio contract signed in blood with the Devil hisself, an' the band is dragging Him along for the ride on their upcoming tour! Hell wastes no time in breaking loose as the opener "Souls A-Fire!" tears out of yer speakers like a stampede of rabid cattle. Once you shake the dust out of yer boots, the pervasive doom of "The Badlads" sets in, with three settings of murder an' treachery laid out in its wake. Weave your way through a slab of narratives involving heaps of Old West-style death an' destruction like a mortician exploring a fresh corpse, an' prepare yer innards for the blistering fiddle solo of "Tex-Mex-Hex," a showcase of Bud "Pyro" Lingelson's unholy talents with a bow that has finally been captured on tape. Finally, things come to a blood-curdling conclusion in the form of that classic country/western ghost story, "The Ride" by David Allen Coe. Welcome to The Badlands! Produced by Remy Brecht. Released on Formerwageslave Records. |
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Occult Outlaws
Date Released: 11/5/2011
Tracks: 13 Well y'all, here it is: the new Long Pigs record, and it is a black and bloody-minded affair. Tales of cruel revenge and old west magick set to the sounds of stamping hooves and firing revolvers. This is not music for gentle church-going types, these here songs are the anthems of the condemned waiting to die-- bandits and murderers and horse thieves, bank robbers and train robbers and grave robbers... You know, LLP's kind of folk. Includes two covers, a faithful rendition of Red Sovine's chilling country-western ghost story "Phantom 309," and then perhaps the most surprising track on the album... a fire 'n' brimstone, rip-snorting take on Pantera's "Cowboys from Hell"! Sure, the strumming guitar at the beginning might sound harmless enough, but once Pyro Lingelson revs up that unmistakable lead guitar line on his fiddle, it's a clear sign that all hell is about to break loose... and break loose, it does! Produced by Remy Brecht. Released by Formerwageslave Records. |
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Ain't No Grave Gonna Hold My Body Down [single]
Date Released: 10/4/2011
Tracks: 3 There is no shortage of interpretations of the traditional spiritual "Ain't No Grave Gonna Hold My Body Down"-- everyone from Brother Claude Ely to the Man in Black Johnny Cash himself recorded their own version of it at some point in time-- but no one has ever put that grim & menacing Death Country spin on the tune quite like Lucifer and the Long Pigs. What was once a joyous celebration of salvation is now, in LLP's hands, a blasphemous threat of revenge from beyond the grave. Losing no momentum, the band then launches into an unsettling arrangement of the popular Christian hymn "Bringing in the Sheaves". With creepy instrumentation and raspy, growled vocals, the piece takes on a sinister air-- when Jerry Lee Lucifer sings, "going forth with weeping, sowing for the Master," one suspects that he is speaking of the infernal Master below rather than the one above... The final cut on the "Ain't No Grave..." single is a more contemporary tune, a tip-of-the-hat homage to fellow Death Country hellraisers Those Poor Bastards. The lyrics to "Crooked Man" seem to be custom-crafted for LLP-- lines like "my uncle was a christian man / but the lord didn't give a damn / he lived sick and homeless / when he died, I didn't even notice" breathe new life in Jerry Lee's scarred, weathered hands. He is every bit the "doomsday preacher" whom the song invokes. Following the release of the ambitious 2-album concept record "Within Screwtape's Grasp" in conjunction with Squidbitchez, this new single is a refreshing dose of LLP's custom brand of deep-south hellfire & brimstone, and will only serve to heighten the anticipation over their forthcoming new album, OCCULT OUTLAWS. Stay tuned! |
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Without Screwtape's Grasp Pt.2
Date Released: 7/20/2011
Tracks: 16 (continued from "Within Screwtape's Grasp Pt.1" by Squidbitchez-- buy both albums to complete the 2CD set!) Down at the LLP ranch, the Long Pigs knew something was up before it even arrived. Dark clouds squatted low in the sky like toads, bloated, waiting. Milk spontaneously soured; crops withered. Jerry Lee gathered the Long Pig boys together and instructed them to bring "the kit". When the Squidbitchez girls arrived, Jerry Lee's first thought was that Margie was back on the drugs and in need of another icewater dunking. To his surprise, it was Annie who was plagued with the sweats 'n' shakes this time around, and it was obvious to JLL that the cause was something more than a mere chemical... something sinister. Something evil. Though the exact details of what happened over the next twenty-four hours remain shrouded in mystery, it is known that Antoinette had to be restrained, most likely via clothesline knotted around the rusted metal headboard of one of the ranch's beds. The woman's unnaturally guttural screams and wails could be heard for miles. Some say that a bull was slaughtered on the compound and its contents brought into the room where Annie was being held. Others claim to have heard chanting, though there are disagreements over whether it was a Native American tongue, or Latin, or ancient Babylonian or Sumerian. Foul black smoke poured from the compound's chimneys. Finally, neighbors could hear the strains of music coming from the foreboding lodge. It started low, quiet, but gradually picked up speed and volume, building into a frenzied roar. When it sounded like the skies themselves were on the verge of tearing apart, everything was suddenly quiet, still. The struggle for Annie's soul was won. These two albums detail the war. |
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The Dark Side of the West
Date Released: 6/7/2011
Tracks: 13 Between touring, recording & rumors of things too terrible to repeat here, the Long Pig boys have certainly kept busy. The church organ that fills the first track might *seem* to signal a somber affair (is that some drunken snickering in the background of the recording?)... but then Jerry Lee's vocals kick in, the guitars & fiddles go nuts, drums pound, and all hell breaks loose again in that certain special LLP way. Saddle up--there's a bad moon on the rise, and it's The Dark Side of the West! |
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The Rapture (single)
Date Released: 2/26/2011
Tracks: 3 At first glance, it might seem like the LLP boys have gotten themselves some religion. Once Jerry Lee's voice booms over the rising din, however, it becomes clear that something else entirely is going on: "After the Rapture/an' all that comes after/that's when the real fun begins/Oh, after the Rapture/without priests or pastors/a hoedown for each of our sins!" Incl. the final mix, acoustic demo & a chilling Leonard Cohen cover w/ that famous chorus, "I've seen the future, brother--it is murder." |
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The Road to Helldorado
Date Released: 1/1/2011
Tracks: 13 "On the way to Helldorado / the road is paved with souls / the liars' screams and the lovers' groans / the Devil claims his own." So begins the 2nd album by LLP. There are no grazing shots this time around-- each song is a bullet stuck in the gut & left to bleed. Jerry Lee Lucifer wails like a man set ablaze while Bud "Pyro" Lingelson fiddles as if possessed. Zane & Duke strangle the life out of their guitars like they've been strung with barbed wire, while the Drummer drives them ever onward... |
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Live: The Tri-State Killing Spree Tour
Date Released: 12/1/2010
Tracks: 13 After months of broken bottles, broken noses & broken hearts, the live document of LLP's "Tri-State Killing Spree" tour has finally arrived. Stops included Waco & Dallas, TX; Albuquerque & Truth or Consequences, NM; L.A., Chatsworth & Livermore, CA... each city picked for being host to infamous murders & serial killers. Though the setlist changed often from night to night, these recordings were picked for their intensity & grit. Includes some classic covers & live renditions of 3 new LLP songs! |
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All Our Hexes Come From Texas
Date Released: 9/30/2010
Tracks: 13 Hot on the heels of The Death Country EP comes the LLP debut, the title an occult play on George Strait's classic. Roaring guitar, galloping bass, groaning pedal steel, shrieking harmonica, and thundering drums surge forth in a frothing, rabid stampede. An unlikely Concrete Blonde cover becomes a rowdy treat in LLP's hands w/ guest violin & female vocals. "...Six Widows" closes the album as a sequel to "6 Bullets...", where the women left behind exact their bloody revenge. Get some! |
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The Death Country EP
Date Released: 9/21/2010
Tracks: 4 This is the commercial release of LLP's original 4-song demo that was sent to labels. The doom-laden dirge "Ballad of the Bozeman Trail Strangler" will make your blood run cold, and the raucous "Six Bullets, Six Coffins, Six Graves" will fire it back up again. "Eyes Like Brushfires" is slow-burning and hypnotic, while LLP's cover of the absolute western classic "(Ghost) Riders in the Sky" could cast a chill over any man's soul, no matter how hardened he might be. A taste of great things to come! |
Offical Band News
| Figgies Request an' New Album News! | 3/15/2013 |
| 200 Units, Y'all | 10/23/2012 |
| Badlands Live Double Disc | 6/23/2012 |
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