Antennapaedia
I’m just about finished up with Richard Dawkins’ The Blind Watchmaker, a book that explains how the various dead ends and fuckups along evolution’s path reveal how design-less the universe really is. But I had to take a quick break when I learned, in a short digression of his, about a mutation that is possible in fruitflies known as Antennapaedia. Turns out that in fruitflies, the way legs and antenna develop in the embryonic stage is very similar, so it is completely possible for errors to occur during the copying of antenna DNA, producing legs. The result is a fly with fucking legs on its face. Of course, my first reaction was “band name,” and the language surrounding Antennapaedia is ripe with death metal possibilities.
So I spent a couple minutes in Photoshop and whipped up the cover for their first album, which includes the soon-to-be classics Homeotic Phenotype and Drosophila Melanogaster.
February 16th, 2008 at 7:45 am
The name doesn’t look spider-webby enough.
February 16th, 2008 at 8:16 am
Those songs sound like Cattle Decapitation songs. This band better be horror vegan gore grind, or I’m gonna be very upset. As we all know at this point, I only listen to the highest quality horror vegan gore grind.
February 16th, 2008 at 10:33 am
Band name font is WAAAAY too legible
February 16th, 2008 at 10:34 am
also, must incorporate inverted crosses
February 16th, 2008 at 10:35 am
perhaps the lines of this…
http://image.allmusic.com/00/amg/cov200/dre200/e275/e275097zjgw.jpg
February 16th, 2008 at 11:22 am
Im pretty sure that those are Cattle Decapitation song titles
February 16th, 2008 at 1:36 pm
Tryin’ to help out Chris here…
http://home.bresnan.net/~thrash/antennapaedia.png
February 16th, 2008 at 2:19 pm
Ah, there we are. Much more incomprehensible. Thanks, Shawn.
Maybe in my head I was thinking more thrash than death metal? Oh, and I got the color swatch from a Dimmu Borgir cover, so maybe Antennapaedia just defies pidgeon-holing.
Edit: WHAT the hell does your cover say at the bottom? Looks like “Tephrotidae Mutatus.”
February 16th, 2008 at 3:21 pm
Nailed it. Sounded scientific and scary and metal.
February 16th, 2008 at 4:49 pm
Well… Now that the hard part is over all we have to do is write some songs with blast beats and we can toil away in obscurity.
February 16th, 2008 at 5:40 pm
Well it’s more about blast beats than songs, really. Tune everything down two full steps and the songs just write themselves if you have a good blast beat.
For example: (220bpm) C, C#, C, C#
And I mean, that’s just off the top of my head.
February 17th, 2008 at 6:07 am
Yeah, you’re definitely on to something:
http://roth.zhxhome.net/random/mmhmm/01-Homeotic%20Phenotype.mp3
February 17th, 2008 at 1:32 pm
Haha, did you sequence that in an NSF tracker?
February 17th, 2008 at 5:51 pm
What can I say, my nerdiness gets the best of me.
February 18th, 2008 at 6:45 am
That sounds like the soundtrack to Yars’ Revenge