As you can see, they've finally begun to show up on film... and they're taking to their instruments quite well... and these 'uns look like they'll last a while... their limbs are still pretty much intact... deathflesh sometimes don't work so good or last so long... ya takes yer chances when ya plunge the spade into the grave... but daaaamn it feels, sounds, smells so good, doesn't it? That thick satisfying ''ssssssshhhhthungmppth"... mmmmmmmmmm... and the acrid yet nutty, nay, fetid aroma of the freshly revealed grave with its torn bits of rotting flesh so violently yet eagerly examined in search of the perfect death rattle to underscore the second cumming of the Pile... yup! These 'uns are good 'uns! Ya kin tell by the stank!!!
Influences
Every dark and driving piece of music that came before us, from Iggy, the MC5 and Alice Cooper right on up to early Venom and Slayer, and then there's all those NWOBHM bands, and THEN some! Anyone remember The Mentors... anyone? Dick Manitoba? Pope on a Rope? S.O.D.? The Tubes? Clockwork Orange? Cheese in a sausage casing that you'd squeeze out of a hole on the side? Camaro's? Smoking your face off? And that's just the influences on our weiners!!!
As a band, WE're influenced by; rotting meat, severed limbs, vagina, dripping ocular fluid, muscle-cars, distended colons, hockey-fights, any form of cancer, rampant social injustice, rainbow-colored baloney, blind-eyed disregard for gravity, infections in strange places, abject poverty, mangled face-flesh, governmental regulations, municipal regulations, clubhouse regulations, social propriety regulations, 'don't-touch-me-there' regulations, criminal law regulations... If it's right, we'll wrong it... if it's warm, we'll eat it... if it's nice, we'll trash it... if it's wet, we'll drink it... If it's METAL, WE'LL SERVE IT!!!!
Sounds Like
An army of garbage trucks filled with screaming Flying V's and Marshalls, hurtling full-bore over a rusty razor-edged steel cliff into a toxic waste-dump, whereupon they are pummeled by a baker's dozen of 300ton piledrivers, while all the dying truck drivers moan and scream in excruciating pain... with Pile sickly cackling ALL the way!!!
PILEDRIVER...
the very name implies loud, obnoxious, pounding metallic rhythm. And that is exactly what Old School Thrash metal artist The Exalted Piledriver delivers!
In late 1984, Piledriver's 'Metal Inquisition' album infested itself across an unsuspecting planet, surreptitiously setting the bar higher for obnoxious metalheads with a penchant for outraging parents and weaker souls around them, while influencing a whole new generation of metal-addled musicians. Darling-bastard-child of the nascent underground speed and thrash metal scenes, Piledriver shocked and awed with songs like 'Sex With Satan', 'Sodomize The Dead', 'Alien Rape', 'Witch Hunt' and 'Human Sacrifice' , while remaining a leather-veiled mystery of a man not seen since Alice Cooper's heyday, and not seen again until Marilyn Manson and Slipknot's rise. Garnering rave reviews and brisk sales (reportedly nearly 500,000 copies to date), Piledriver's Metal Inquisition became a respected and celebrated oeuvre-of-awful, even being voted by many critics as one of 1984's Best Metal Albums.
While fans clamored for any tidbit of info on the band, the Piledriver camp remained mysteriously elusive. Occasionally, Piledriver's highly entertaining, twisted and humorous radio and magazine interviews fanned the fan-flames. Piledriver's second slab of vinyl 'Stay Ugly' slammed forth in 1986, a progression of aggression, with a trashier-thrashier sound. Songs like 'Metal Death Racer', Lord Of Abominations, 'Flowers of Evil' and 'The Executioner' maintained the sick level of humor, and fans were thrilled. Then... He disappeared...
Two decades have passed since... during which we have been given compact discs, dvd's, aerosol cheese, rising violent crime, and most significantly, the internet. As the internet grew and became useful, Piledriver 's putrefaction was to be found in dank, dark nodes all over the web. In the chat rooms, in the review sites, in the blogs and in all the best-of lists, the legend of Piledriver grew and grew, demonstrating his undiminished evil appeal and amply proving that his audience was still there. The deafening years of silence have only served to fuel their craving for more Piledriver!
Watching from the sidelines, The Piledriver himself agreed that the fans should have a fresh gutfull of Pile-meat to devour, and most important of all, LIVE SHOWS to serve it up to them, along with all the classicks from his past... So He searched the oldest, darkest cemetaries, and dug up the finest vampire zombie metal-heads (and what was left of their bodies) that he could find; grinning necromorph Glace Frothfritter rattling his bones on drums, soulless vampire Kinky Pork Cream decomposing all over his guitar, with El Lobo El Fsnort offensively rounding out this mob of musical death. Check out TONS of pictures of Pile's pack of undead metal miscreants HERE!!!>
For your sick aural enjoyment you can find some of the demos on this page of blood-soaked songs from Piledriver's soon to spurt forth 'Metal Manifesto'. As you will hear, there is a certain musical evil in his voice that cannot be denied, as undeniable as the twisted hooks, virtuosic solos and the sheer pounding musicality of their writing; Old School meets Modern unlike in any other band! Recorded in his tiny home studio with an elastic band and some sticks, the demos showcase the inextinguishable fire that still burns within the angered artist. Imagine what putrescent power and malignant majesty could be achieved with a proper recording budget! It boggles the metal-head mind!!!!
So... have a Look and a listen... LOUDLY of course... and become an integral part of the return of a true Metal Original!!!
Check out WWW.SOFA-Q.COM , the band's official website. If you want booking or other information contact them at piledriver@sympatico.ca
...and never forget...
"If you're not a metalhead, you might as well be DEAD!"
By the way... The Exalted Piledriver plays See him with his Gibson Les Paul BFG on the GIBSON website ... what a SLUT!!!
My throat is trashed, but, man, what a crowd!!!!!!!
Piledriver - Metal Inquisition ..
Pile and the boys make a mess at Bill Peters' M.O.M.25th Bash in Cleveland
First gig in Europe at the Hamburg Ballroom in Hamburg, Germany for Kutten4Ever Fest!!!!!!
Backstage with Delirium Tremens in Anaberg-Buchholz, Germany
At Keep It True VIII festival in Lauda-Koenigshofen, Germany!
At the TRE X Club in Bedizzole-Brescia, Italy
Johnny Deathrasher's sickly video for 'When I Saw Yer Face'!
Proxy n' Kicks and their fiendish friends, fortified with the Power-Of-Pile!!!
Hey Piley! I took a hiatus from buttspace. Sorry I was gone so long. I can only remember my emails for this one and the Gorn. Too bad I can't remember my Baby Firefly self. lmao. I missed ya Piley! I'm glad they finally got some of your songs and Razors on the projectplaylist site! Yay!!!
Hailz Piley! Yes, I, The Creepster, Have been listening to you guys before most of your fans were born. I was browsing thru peoples rejected cassette tapes in a trade/buy/sell store, in the early 80's, and stumbled across The Metal Inquistion. Creepy was changed forever! Creepy learned all them songs on his gee-tar and it was some of the first stuff I learned how to play after Johnny Cash chords. hahahaha! I used to terrorize all my fuckwad friends that liked shit like REO Speedwagon and Journey. I would drive thru town in my Super Beetle and blast Piledriver throughout the streets of my little hick town. And sometime
