Motherfuckers still die in the summertime,
It happens all the time in the summertime...
It happens all the time in the summertime...
Being a rap group that tends to works with Harsh Noise and Avant-Garde Music, on top of Daveed's very descriptive, violent, and terrifying lyricism, it's no surprise they're capable of scaring the absolute shit out of the listener.
- The music video to "Summertime"
, wherein Daveed's eyes and mouth are super-imposed onto various people, and at one point we see Daveed's face with his eyes and mouth removed (pictured above). - Bryan-Lewis Saunders' monologue in "God Given Tongue" about his recruitment into a cult is nothing short of spine-chilling."And then, uh, I looked and here was a pool upstairs with fake rocks and fake plants and then, uh, the guy who was in the water and put his leg up on a rock and was like, "Come on... come on..." like that. And then I went down in the pool, and he said to hold— how to hold my arms, and he said, 'When I dunk you under this water, you're gonna feel really cold, but when I pull you up out of this water, you best be speaking in that God-given tongue, boy.'"
- He mentions his friend, David Miller, in the beginning and how he and Bryan decide to go to the church. As soon as he talks about his experience at the church, David isn't mentioned again. It's never explained what happened to him.
- The entire video (NSFW) to "Back Up," a found-footage Surreal Horror film about a cult of infantile shut-ins, shot in the beloved LA music club The Smell. Or as one commenter put it: "Look Who's Talking by way of Trash Humpers."
- References that Cargo #2331 makes throughout Splendor & Misery, including in his freestyle interludes, strongly imply that he was a modern American man living in Los Angeles before being abducted and hauled across the galaxy to be used as a slave.
- Being a noise rap group, they've often made music that can frighten the listener, but There Existed An Addiction to Blood and Visions Of Bodies Being Burned fully revel in this, being homages to horror films.
