Heidi brings in Sean E and Bill Fold. Two guys who seem to know everyone. They sit us down and rip our wish list to shreds. They have suggestions, they have access, they are into our cause. Lucky us. An example: "Sean, we have been trying for weeks to contact Tom Araya of Slayer but his manager won't respond." Sean produces Tom's cell number. We call Tom directly. Tom enthusiastically agrees to help out. In three minutes we have arranged a recording date. I tell him that we have been contacting his manager nonstop about this. He says he never heard a word about it. Tom comes into the studio a while later and blows the roof off the place with his performance. Thanks for being so cool and amazing. And so it went.
Thankfully, not all the managers were like that. And without exception, all the singers were 100% cool, generous with their time and amazing in their performances. The passion and intensity with which these people laid into these songs are off the scale.
At the end of a lot of inspired work, we ended up with a record that is absolutely bulletproof. Support came from all corners, Marketing companies, publicists, online companies etc. etc. Everyone involved from the engineers to the equipment companies who donated goods, gave 100% and words cannot express my gratitude. The album is scheduled for release in October 8, 2002 on Sanctuary Records. It has been fun being the ringleader in this great conspiracy against injustice. By buying this record, you join us. In a situation like the one the WM3 are in, silence is the enemy and apathy is death. So let's go.
Thanks.
--Henry Rollins
If you order from Amazon.com (link below), they have a special 2 disc set with bonus tracks.
The book, Devil's Knot: The True Story of the West Memphis Three by Mara Leveritt was also released today. I plan to order that when I get a chance too.
The story of the West Memphis Three is one of the worst miscarriges of justice that I have ever heard of or researched in this country. The product description of Devil's Knot has a brief overview:
On the evening of May 5, 1993, in the small town of West Memphis, Arkansas, three eight-year-old boys disappeared. The next afternoon, the naked bodies of Stevie Branch, Christopher Byers, and Michael Moore were found submerged in a nearby stream. The boys had been bound from ankle to wrist with their own shoelaces and severely beaten. Christopher had been castrated.
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