Sabu and Antiseen, The Perfect 5 man Tag Team Match

Sabu and Antiseen, the perfect 5 man Tag Team Match

To make the perfect match up, you need a bit of crazy and a whole lotta talent. For all the diehard wrestling fans, the name Sabu connotes a hardcore legend of the squared circle. From the high flying finishing moves, converting tables, chairs and ladders into readily available weapons and the wildly insane demeanor, helped to cultivate the mystique around Sabu. His level of acumen would become the inspiration for one of Antiseen's wrestling tribute songs that has been heard far and wide. The Boys From Brutalsville, finally got their 5th member!

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"Given the self-destructive stage antics and confrontational messages of underground punk band ANTiSEEN, the band’s longevity is as impressive as a championship title reign. But these self-proclaimed Badwill Ambassadors have been piledriving eardrums and abusing themselves for audiences all over the world for 30 years now. And with numerous shows already logged this year, as well as an ever-growing catalog of new releases including the recent New Blood and Falls Count Anywhere albums, ANTiSEEN shows no signs of letting up on its destructive path of punk rock mayhem. As the band embarks on its Dixie Dynamite Tour with Hellstomper, front man Jeff Clayton talks to Wrestling with Pop Culture about wrestling, rock and blood.

ANTiSEEN has done enough songs about wrestling over the years to fill an entire CD. How far back do the songs on this album date?

Our earliest wrestling song was “Cactus Jack” and that appeared on Eat More Possum, which came out in ’93. But the version that’s on Falls Count Anywhere is the single version that came out a few years later. But that’s still the earliest thing on that record.

Greatest hype man in the business, the Cosmic Commander. Photo - Lance Dawes

You’re clearly a fan of hardcore wrestlers like Cactus Jack, Abdullah the Butcher and Terry Funk. You portray a similar sense of violence during your performances. What attracts you to such extreme behavior and how does it relate to the music you create?

I’ve always liked wrestling and growing up in the South I loved seeing Ric Flair and the Four Horsemen. Later, when cable came along, we actually got to see the Freebirds and stuff like that. But I always liked the guys that were monsters and freaks. I loved it when Gary Hart brought in Kabuki. I remember being able to barely get a station on our television – we still had one of those rotary-dial antennas – and me and my brother would look for wrestling wherever we could find it. We found something that I think came from Texas and we saw Eric the Red. We thought that was cool, but the one thing that really left an impression on me and is why I still do what I do was when they brought in Abdullah the Butcher to take on Wahoo McDaniel. They had never shown nothing quite that brutal on the television show before, at least not since we had been watching it. They showed some pretty brutal stuff like the Andersons hitting people with the cast they had on for six months. But seeing Abduallah, the commentators made it seem mike it was the most terrible thing in the world. The audience was going crazy, there was blood everywhere and it went off the air while it was still going on. It was like, “Wow!” Then we found the show on another station and watched the replay, even though it looked like it was in a snowstorm, just to get to see it again. Then there were cage matches and barbed wire, which back then guaranteed one thing: there was going to be blood. A cage match was a brutal thing and we used to get wrestling magazines and see pictures of the Billy Graham/Dusty Rhodes bullrope match, barbed wire and all that stuff, wrestling just had a lasting impression. And I have an appreciation for all of it; I like luchadores, I like the mat technician guys like Guerrero, Malenko and all them people. But the monsters and maniacs were always my favorite, and still are to this day.

Wrestling has changed quite a bit since then. Do you still watch much of today’s wrestling?

I don’t watch it much because I don’t have cable. It was a big waste of money for a vast wasteland of nothing. I talk to people who do follow it, though. If something goes down that I think I really need to see, I’ll look it up the next day on YouTube.

Did you miss the Rock N' Rassle Apocalypse? Blame yourself for being lazy and the show of a life time! The Necrobutcher gouging Beast Master Rick Link with a beer can for a hardcore death match. Photo - Lance Dawes

What did you think of Mick Foley being inducted into the WWE Hall of Fame this year?

It’s about time. He deserves it, man. He and just a handful of others were the ones who breathed life into that company. I know it was the efforts of a lot of people, but when you think about the Attitude Era you think of Foley going off the top of the cage, the Undertaker/Shawn Michaels Hell in a Cell, Stone Cold and all that stuff. And that whole attitude the WWF adopted at that time came from ECW. Foley came from there, even Stone Cold came from ECW to WWE. And they all brought some of that with them. It was a really exciting time for wrestling and one of them times you’ll never forget. It’s hard to picture that as being classic now, but it is.

Another CD came out around the same time as Falls Count Anywhere…

New Blood is a compilation of singles that were done over a three year period. We stopped being concerned with making albums, but we’ve put out a ton of singles in different countries all over the world. They’d be really small runs, so we sold out of all those within days. So we just compiled all those singles to make that album, which is why some of the tracks repeat on Falls Count Anywhere. But we just compiled all the wrestling songs in one place so people could just buy them in one place. I guess that’s not a very good business move since they’d have to buy ten CDs otherwise. Saying that aloud, now I think that was a really dumb move. Now we’re doing a truckload of singles again, so maybe in another year or two we’ll compile another album. We’re doing a split with a death metal group from Cleveland called NunSlaughter that will have two brand new songs on it. We’re also doing a split with Poison Idea that’s going to have a brand new original track and a cover of the Sex Pistols‘ “Belsen Was a Gas”. We’ve got a bunch of other projects lined up that we haven’t actually done yet. Those are the two that are done, sent off and going to be out soon.

The Cosmic Commander, The Ref and Jeff Clayton of Antiseen at the Rock N' Rassle Apocalypse, Photo - Lance Dawes

You’ve still been performing quite a bit and are now on tour again.

Yeah. We went on a three-month break because our bass player’s wife had a child. But we play at least one weekend a month when we’re not touring. But now we’re touring with Hellstomper and we also have a bunch of offers for one-offs overseas. So this year has been pretty busy.

What do you guys do when you’re not on tour?

Our bass player is going to school on his G.I. Bill. The drummer is about to finish college. Joe [Young] runs a record store and I work in a heating and air conditioner warehouse. ANTiSEEN keeps us busy, but it don’t keep us rich.

You guys are based in the Carolinas, an area with a storied wrestling past. Do you keep up with the local wrestling scene at all?

There’s a town here called Chester where Action Packed Wrestling runs every Friday night. They’ve had people like Ricky Morton and maybe some of the younger guys that are popular. It’s a fun thing. I only live about 20 minutes away from Charlotte and there’s a bunch of federations running out of Charlotte. There’s a real good one that runs out of Tremont Music Hall, where we play, called Xtreme World Wrestling and they’re really good.

Has ANTiSEEN ever performed at a wrestling event?

Yeah. But you know what? Only twice. We played at one in Philadelphia called Rule Breakers Rule back in ’96. That was the first time we had played one and that was complete and total chaos. Cops shut the thing down as we were playing during a barbed wire match. Last summer we hosted a show in Charlotte called Rock N’ Rassle Apocalypse headlined by “The Beastmaster” Rick Link and the Necro Butcher, so there was blood all over the place.

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Necrobutcher, Cosmic Commander, Rick Link and Antiseen - Photo - Lance Dawes

Beast Master Rick Link giving the Necrobutcher a good beating - Photo Lance Dawes

Antiseen Feature Review On Punk News

Only if you have been hiding under a rock and praying that Charlton Heston will save you from the impending reality of Apes taking over, will we believe that you haven't seen all the work Antiseen has been putting in for the last couple of decades. Now with such a long winded opening statement, get your asses off the couch or magic computer box and pick up the greatest collection of wrestling songs ever created. 

Yep, this ain't just no hyperbole for the sake of hot air, this is truth. Truth just like the science spit out so easily by Neil deGrasse Tyson. It's on a cosmic level of mat pounding brutality in which Baby Faces run like rabies ridden cats towards impending doom. So do yourself a favor and click this here link below to purchase your new theme music while posing in the mirror while getting ready for the next bout.

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"As dedicated as ANTiSEEN is to self-annihilation, its interesting to see how reverent they are towards the music that inspired them. New Blood, a collection of the band's singles from 2008-2011 and some new tracks, finds the band fitting the material to create a surprisingly coherent album that pays respect to their influences as well as furthers their own quest for self destruction.


As with most of their work, the North Carolina band blends together punk/early hardcore with Southern style blues rock. The connection between the two genres is never more apparent than it is on "Reconstruction." The bands slams out three chord riff after three chord riff, but the song swings like ZZ Top, making the connection between punk and blues mixed together with no clear separation. BB King could as easily sing the song as could the Dwarves.


This connection is also addressed by each of the poles. The band tears through a fairly faithful rendition of the Ramones' "Chainsaw." However, Jeff Clayton's whisky soaked voice growls in lieu of Joey Ramone's lamentation, which takes the song from one of horror to one of perverse glee. Then, on the other side of their influences, the band cuts through "Black Eyed Suzie," a Southern banjo cut with the help of Hank III's stringsman Joe Buck Yourself. While the song is a traditional ballad based around a circular chorus, the band's purposeful sloppiness gives the song a ragged punk menace.


Just as the band twists their sources into a combination of their own material, the lyrics suggest a certain twisted transformation. For instance, on "Black Eye Suzie Brown," is the song an ode or lamentation to spousal abuse…or does "Black eyed" refer to eye color and not to bruises? Does the band care? "Pledge Allegiance to the Bomb" is just that, but is the song speaking in a ironic detachment of contemporary war theory, or are they really hoping for nuclear fallout to wipe out the human race?


But, despite the band running headlong into destruction, it's remarkable how much they preserve their source material. Personally they might be hoping for an end, but the energetic crunch of their riffs suggests that if anything, they're doing their best to preserve both Southern rock and classic American punk. New Blood is an argument for the curation of both, because while these songs are all loud and nasty, they each maintain a separate identity and edge, something sorely lacking in much modern music. Certainly the members themselves would have to (regretfully?) acknowledge that by trying to destroy themselves for so long, they've ended up preserving their career and by accident, preserved two disparate genres along the way."

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Antiseen Sets The Record Straight, They Are The Titans Of The Squared Circle

On July 10th 2012, Antiseen will be settling the score and proving that they are the titans of the squared circle. Their collection of wrestling songs will finally be available on one amazing disc or batch of songs in a digital download. 

These songs run the gamut of illustrious characters that have entered into death matches, brawls and all out street fights all for the fan's delight. Plus there will be one all NEW and never before released track* recorded especially for FALLS COUNT ANYWHERE!!!

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10 Amazing tracks on gate fold cd digipak

1.EXPLODING BARBED WIRE DEATH MATCH - A tribute to the over the top hard core style of Japanese Wrestling.
2. INVADER ONE MUST DIE - a cover of a tune from long time pals COCKNOOSE about Jose Gonzalez who murdered wrestling great BRUISER BRODY in Puerto Rico.
3. The MYSTERIOUS GREEN MIST - a tribute to the Great Kabuki & The Great Muta and their secret weapon of choice!!!!
4. FROM PARTS UNKNOWN - a tribute to the masked men of Professional Wrestling.
5. SABU - a tribute to the suicidal, homicidal, genocidal, human highlight reel!
6. FUNK U - a tribute to the hardcore icon, the living legend, TERRY FUNK!
7. DEAR ABBY - a tribute to the Madamn from the Sudan, ABDULLAH THE BUTCHER!
8. CACTUS JACK - a tribute to the man who's name is synonymous with HARDCORE...before the socks and tie dye shirts...MICK FOLEY
9.BABY FACE KILLER - a tribute to ALL wrestling HEELS!!!!
10.* BADSTREET USA - Not a tribute to Atlanta, GA but to it's favorite sons THE FABULOUS FREEBIRDS with a cover of the song made famous by the leader of the greatest triple tag team in Wrestling history!!!!

Rusty Knuckles Presents - Rock N' Rassle Apocalypse

ANTiSEEN Falls Count Anywhere, Get Yours Now

Did you ever consider to think that it was no coincidence, that we were putting on the Rock N' Rassle Apocalypse and that the mighty ANTiSEEN could be puting out a release centered around a wrestling theme? Well dear friends, you are the first to see it in the here and now. Below is the cover and track listing for one of the best batch of songs from the fellas and damn if they aren't firing on all cylinders. Just have a look at this track listing and the cover. 

Falls Count Anywhere will be coming out on July 10th worldwide and most of all through Rusty Knuckles Music. Be prepared for the best ring music to ever take over the squared circle.

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Also, below the album cover, get all the info for the Rock N' Rassle Apocalypse. Click on the ad link to the right to get your tickets now, before they sell out.

1.EXPLODING BARBED WIRE DEATH MATCH - A tribute to the over the top hard core style of Japanese Wrestling.
2. INVADER ONE MUST DIE - a cover of a tune from long time pals COCKNOOSE about Jose Gonzalez who murdered wrestling great BRUISER BRODY in Puerto Rico.
3. The MYSTERIOUS GREEN MIST - a tribute to the Great Kabuki & The Great Muta and their secret weapon of choice!!!!
4. FROM PARTS UNKNOWN - a tribute to the masked men of Professional Wrestling.
5. SABU - a tribute to the suicidal, homicidal, genocidal, human highlight reel!
6. FUNK U - a tribute to the hardcore icon, the living legend, TERRY FUNK!
7. DEAR ABBY - a tribute to the Madamn from the Sudan, ABDULLAH THE BUTCHER!
8. CACTUS JACK - a tribute to the man who's name is synonymous with HARDCORE...before the socks and tie dye shirts...MICK FOLEY
9.BABY FACE KILLER - a tribute to ALL wrestling HEELS!!!!
10.* BADSTREET USA - Not a tribute to Atlanta, GA but to it's favorite sons THE FABULOUS FREEBIRDS with a cover of the song made famous by the leader of the greatest triple tag team in Wrestling history!!!!

ANTiSEEN - Falls Count Anywhere, A collection of Wrestling Songs. Available July 10th

For months now we have been working on the details for a new type of showcase with a few of the bands we work with. It all started to come to shape with the new collection of songs being put together for the first time by the legendary ANTiSEEN. This collection puts all of their wrestling songs onto one amazing cd entitled Falls Count Anywhere.

Knowing the amount of interest the album was going to have, the one and only Jeff Clayton and I came together to work on ideas to help promote the album due out on July 10th world wide. One of the biggest ideas we had was to put on one hell of a show and due it in the right way to show bad ass these songs were going to be in one collection. After making the rounds, checking our rolodexes and looking at tour schedules we decided to put on one of the baddest Rock N' Rassle events that we could think of.

Rock N' Rassle Apocalypse will take place on July 28th at the Tremont in Charlotte, NC. Below is a link to buy tickets and be prepared hombre's as the assault is about to begin. Prepare for videos, matches and indepth interviews with the rassler's and bands taking part of this soon to be legendary event.

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Rusty Knuckles Presents: Rock N' Rassle Apocalypse Featuring ANTiSEEN, Necro Butcher and more....