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MACABRE maroon Gloom collage design featuring all the songs represented on the album.
Printed on Gildan DryBlend 50% Cotton / 50% Polyester shirts
Design by Bryan Sessions.
Recorded at Chicago Recording Company June ’89
Engineered by Iain Burgess
(Naked Raygun, Big Black, Pegboy, Jawbox, Cerebral Fix)
About the bizarre world of an embalmer.
About all the people who died at a Who concert in Cincinnati.
The Christmas classic about Ronald Jean Simmons killed his entire family for the holidays instead of bringing them gifts
Fritz Haarmann The Butcher
Fritz Haarmann was a butcher by trade during the day and butchered humans by night to have fresh meat for making sausages in Germany during the 20’s
band got inspiration for movie “The Butcher”.
Acoustic song, the debut of The Macabre Minstrels.
Harvey Glatman (Your Soul Will Forever Rot)
Harvey Glatman would pose as a photographer to lure women in his apartment then tie them up, beat and rape them, kill them and dump their bodies in the desert.
McMassacre (James Huberty)
James Huberty went to a McDonald’s in San Ysiedro, California near San Diego and near the Mexico border.
David Brom killed his parents, brother and sister because they wouldn’t let him listen to a Suicidal Tendencies album and other hardcore music.
About a French doctor who would promise safe passage away from the nazis, bring them to his home where he would kill them in a variety of ways. He would proceed take their jewelry and other belongings, their teeth. He would then cremate their bodies in his secret incinerator within his house.
Acoustic Macabre Minstrels song.
About Joseph Kellinger who wanted to kill a million people because he would then become God. He ended up killing dozens of people in various ways. He was featured on Geraldo from prison maybe in NY.
About various ways you can hurt someone.
One day Laurie Dann decided that she could no longer handle the world and decided to stop by her local grade school in Wilmette, IL. She walked into a classroom where she began to fire shots at everyone within sight. She ended up killing one child, a teacher and wounded several others as well as taking her own life. She was known locally to be mentally ill and dangerous but allowed to live in society.
Patrick Purdy Killed Five And Wounded Thirty
From California, Patrick Purdy visited a school yard shortly after the Laurie Dann killings. He proceeded to shoot as many asian children as possible, thinking he was in Vietnam, before taking his own life.
A beautiful little story of how one man made money digging up the graves of wealthy people and taking their jewelry and personal belongings from their graves and sell them to pawn shops.
Dr. Holmes (He Stripped Their Bones)
During the late 1800’s Dr. Holmes would lure women to his hundred room black castle on Chicago’s South Side. He was a swindler and a cheat. He started out by taking over the pharmacy where he worked after the family that owned it mysteriously disappeared, he claimed that he bought the business before they left. He turned it into a thriving store selling drugs and elixirs claiming he could cure almost anything. He made so much money that he had a hundred room castle built to live in, complete with false doors and various mysterious rooms. He was known to have several wives all who disappeared. The World’s Fair was closed due to the amount of women disappearing.
The Green River Murderer (He’s Still Out There)
A man who has murdered over fifty prostitutes from the Seattle area. He began in the late eighties before the killing streak mysteriously ended, no one has ever been charged with these murders.
Nefarious sings this tale about an embalmer who loves his work.
