** LEXLUGERSEXMAGIK - lextended version **

** FULL 30-SONG ALBUM AS ORIGINALLY CONCEIVED **

** +8 BONUS TRACKS, including previously unreleased recordings **


If you checked out the previous 10-year anniversary album, "Sheer Hart Attack," and read the info about that album, I'm going to continue the story here.......



In 2008-2009, Double Murder Suicide (now Double Moonsault) had played a bunch of live shows - me, my brother Sam on bass, and Jason Look on drums - and recorded an album that was lost when Sam's computer crashed. That basically ended the band.

I wrote and released Sheer Hart Attack in 2009, much of the material being stuff that the band had never played. As I was working on Sheer Hart Attack, I also joined Jason's band, Prisoners, on bass.

While Sheer Hart Attack had a glitchy punk vibe, lexlugersexmagik was more inspired by the experimental/noise acts that I'd see at The Cool Ranch, the DIY/party house where Sam and Jason lived. I got into recording songs, slowing/speeding them down/up, pitch-shifting, and using loops.

If Sheer Hart Attack's lyrical content was inspired by the books "Ring of Hell" and Bret Hart's autobiography, lexlugersexmagik was inspired by "Watch You Bleed" by Stephen Davis and "W.A.R" by Mick Wall, both about Guns n' Roses. This explains the Guns n' Roses cover, "Yesterdays," which is included in this full expanded reissue.

All that reading about the excesses of rock n' roll had me thinking of lexlugersexmagik as my "excessive" third album - which meant loads of sound effects and weirdness. (Before landing on the title lexlugersexmagik, I thought about calling the album "Use Your Submission" as a reference to GNR's double LP.)

It didn't really come out that way, though. Many of the songs are pretty bare bones. "Scott Hall's Drinking" is just a loop of a single guitar lick (but has at least 3-4 vocal overdubs). With no live drums or the ability to really crank my amp when recording, the album has much less of a "band" feel than even the first two.

As this "lextended" version shows, there was no focus on a single theme when I started writing and recording songs. The version I released became my "WCW album," but that theme came from the editing process rather than the writing. I left off songs like "Captain Lou," "Matt Hardy Says," and "I'm Seeing Sunny" because they didn't fit the theme.

Some "songs" on this lextended version are remixes of entrance themes, like Alex Wright's theme becoming "Das Wunderkind." "Roddy Piper At The Gates of Dawn" is built on a weird loop I made by slowing down the York Foundation's entrance theme.

The meow on "Real Dead Renegade" is my cat Maeby (RIP).

Originally, I was going to put all 29-30 songs, but I decided to whittle it down into a more digestible, more coherent collection of songs. I released some of the songs that did not appear on the album as the In Your House EP (I think sometime in 2011?). Those songs are now embedded into the album, but I also included "Sister Sherri" and "You & The Rock & The Pedigree" as bonus tracks, even though I think "You & The Rock..." dates back to 2007. It comes from a batch of demos that I gave to Sam and Jason that included many songs that became our live staples (and are available if you download the Sheer Hart Attack re-release).

My longtime friend Mike Goldlust plays some lead guitar on "Midnight Express," which is on here as a bonus track in its instrumental, incomplete form. He recorded his guitar after hearing the song maybe once, directly into a computer on my shitty guitar.

I've also included the instrumental demo for "Jake's The Snake," an alternate version of "Steroid Pills," and an instrumental cover of Aerosmith's "Crazy," which I wish I would've at least put vocals on.

Aside from the first album, this is probably my least favorite DMS release. Like the first album, it has warts on it that have bugged me - "The Warrior Lives In Me" doesn't slam the way it should, some of my lead guitar on "Turned Heel Too" is mistimed, the whole thing is unfocused and there are very few fully fleshed-out songs - but there are also moments I'm really proud of and enjoy. I hope people find those moments and enjoy them too.

Next year, 4th Horseman and the story of the abandoned SuperAmerica album!