New Album Read-To-Go

You heard it. It's barely been three months since The Long Gaps came out, but here we are with another full album before the end of 2010. Believe it or not, we recorded enough material for our new album called Game Changer, that we have enough for 2 left over albums that would still be an improvement over The Long Gaps. Balls Deep In Your Stepmom is firmly rooted in the belief that the new material must outshine the last.
So yeah, Game Changer is nearly here. We went with 14 tracks, and even then it was like killing children each time we left a song off. Everything we made was gold, it just can't all fit onto one cd...
Our long awaited collaboration with "The Groin" finally came to fruition, and the results are scorching tracks with a harsh menacing edge. New songs like "Synthesized," "Cause And Effect," and "Punched Repeatedly" drive the dark side of the album to the very edge and just before we send you off the cliff, we reel you back in with the sweet vocal stylings of "The Top Secret." Lending vocals in "Your Eyes And Mine Collide" and "The Sweetest Hell," her voice infiltrates a song and cuts its throat open with its sweet whisper.
For now, preview "When The River Is Low" on stream here at he site and get ready for a killer new album.
Thanks.
Lou Sanis

The Long Gaps - Free MP3 Links

01 - Beliefs
02 - Leaving The Past Behind
03 - Medicated Vacation
04 - O815
05 - From Another Angle (Featuring The Top Secret)
06 - Walking Open Heart Surgeries
08 - Yesterday's News
09 - Break
10 - Welcome To The New Machine
11 - Identify

BONUS - Upcoming Album - When The River Is Low

Enjoy yourself BDers

The History Of Balls Deep Part 1 - I Hope I Don't Get Sars

As promised we will delve into the psyche of Balls Deep, going into both graphic and hazy accounts of what truly happened during the recordings. Here is your first installment of the history of Balls Deep In Your Stepmom, beginning logically where it all began, the first album I Hope I Don't Get Sars.

Here's the thing. Slant Johnson and I lived together at the time, and the creativity and positivity we shared led to him basically losing his mind in order to create the beginnings of Balls Deep. In the amount of time it took for me to go to work, he had a 4-5 man crew of slackers bringing wood into the master bedroom of the house, his bedroom at the time, transforming it into a new creativity room. It had all the computers, and it also had a big giant wood box that they assembled, complete with 75-100 pound door to seal people inside. Once built, Slant laid down shag carpet in the box and created a tiny musical universe that we could shut ourselves into.

There were no arguments or ill feelings in the band at this time, there so rarely are now even. When they happen now, they happen out of best intentions, one side going for what he truly believes is the best sound for the music. At this virgin time, before we even laid down the tracks or knew we were working on an album, it all came out pure. What was accomplished on a half decent but basic midi keyboard, a set of live drums recorded thru one microphone that wasn't worth a damn, bass and guitars that we still use today and of course our standard Fisher Price keyboard, was astounding. The production, terrible, simply the best we could do at the time. But the quality, the ideas, the excitement of finally becoming a band.

If only we could see the short term future before the drugs and the groupies, I think we would choose our next actions carefully. The world is not ready for the release of I Hope I Don't Get Sars at this point, and we're about to drop the bombshell on a largely unsuspecting public.....oh how naive we were!

Track by track.....

01 - The Grind of the Working Man Chris Bush
Slant Johnson had just turned professional poker player at this point at quit his job. Not far behind was Lou, who quit about a month later for the same reason. Riding an incredible high of finding the loop hole in life, we created The Grind of the Working Man Chris Bush. It was both a sarcastic diss to his dome, and an ode to the man we thought deserved to work the least. Our wish came true, he would begin his run to the pro circuit as I began my decline.
02 - I Hope I Don't Get Sars
You couldn't turn around at this point in Vancouver BC, Canada without bumping into someone with the Sars surgical mask strapped to their face. We wrote this track, with that paranoia feeling on purpose to silence the haters. We welcomed Sars, we just never got it.
03 - Our Balls On The Chin Of A Homeless Man
The beginning of Lou Sanis's vocal stylings. Poorly mixed and barely audible, I wrote some incredibly rude lyrics if you can catch them, beginning a musical direction that we stick to this very day.
04 - Hittin The Roach
Rolling and smoking J after J has been a primary staple of the Balls Deep diet from day 1. We started with pinner J's, to fat J's, double paper even triple paper J's, and now currently favour the blunt wrap. This is a song about smoking it to the end.
05 - The Mass Debator
Funky, decent beat, began a series of tongue in cheek rude Balls Deep In Your Stepmom song titles.
06 - Buryinatribalpenisinya
Showed our ability to flex our sound at a very early age in the band. It sounded raw, and tribal, there was no denying the sound - hence the title.
07 - Turn Your Head Whilst I Brainwash Your Dog
And so began the comedy element of Balls Deep In Your Stepmom. It was a commanding performance on the album, that fully represented the direction that was comfortable for us at that time. Elements of that track would continue to form the character within Slant and Lou for years to come.
08 - I'm So Happy Right Now
Is what it is. It's not amyl nitrate, it's just the pure high of making music for the first time, and being decent at our first time trying it out. The magic was there from moment one, even shows in tracks like this.
09 - Losing This One Would Suck
We had so much inexperience working against us at this time that it seemed like every second song we would make would either run into problems saving, or other technical difficulties preventing us from opening them ever again. This one had such a unique groove for us right off the bat, that, well, losing it would have sucked.
10 - Gonna Break Your Garbage Cans Next
Slant Johnson's drums sounded like they were being thrown around in a back alley by a bunch of burly British garbagemen. Our titles often represent the sound of the music, and this was no exception.
11 - We're Just Two Men
If there was one thing established in that sweaty musical box Slant Johnson had created, it was that no one else could ever be as Balls Deep as the two of us were. We're just Two Men is a literal shout out to the fact that we were the greatest then, and would hold that title over time.
12 - I've Never Felt This Warm
Part II of being high and loving our new found hobby. Can't help but hear the two happy men behind the curtain of this track, in all their glory.
13 - Zamphir, Master Of The Pan Flute
Some sounds you just have to rock. This track we had to rock the Pan Flute into the dirt, but again, the elements are all there. Current cult favourite with our longtime fans, Zamphir still holds up.
14 - A Long Slow Goodbye To Your Mom
Very important to give credit to your mom every chance we can. Without her as our muse, our music would be nothing. Like our love for your mom, we wanted this moment in music to last forever, and it nearly does. It does bang home the point tho. And we bang home our points into your mom.

There it is, written form of the trials and tribulations of the origins of Balls Deep In Your Stepmom. Tune in for the next chapter!
Lou Sanis

Thx For The $$$

Hey everyone. Yeah, we've been lazy about our updates again. Kind of been laying low since the whole "The Stand Deluxe Box Set" fiasco went down. If you hadn't heard, we offered a box set with $2000 worth of Balls Deep materials in it. We expected a few biters, but what they would really get wasn't a box set, but a copy of the pre-release "Album Of The Decade." It was a clear violation of street date, but a necessary evil. No one complained, and sales shot through the roof once you, the public, spread the word about what it was....
Now we're back again, only a couple months later with "2011" in 2010. We've always been ahead of our time....
But Slant has also been digging into the past touching up more than just little children these days. He unearthed and saved 3 full albums worth of material. We give to you, the Classics Remastered Trilogy. Enjoy.
We'll be taking you through our album history soon enough, letting you know our mind set and how the process worked. The stories behind the studio and the musicians that helped us along. Also a new documentary to come.
All good things.
Lou Sanis

Legal Mumbo

Hey! If you haven't picked up your copy of Album Of The Decade we suggest that you do so immediately as we have run out of gas near Oklahoma City and need money. The lead off singles will be "I've Got A Crush On Someone!" and "I Want It Too." For the record, though we debated keeping it clean so your grandma's could listen for a change, we keep true to our roots. There are plenty of chapters about the different things we do to your mom. Countless vagina and ball references. What you'd expect, only better, cause we're better.
We are however bowing to a little legal pressure from the studio. Apparently the best strategy is to let the album sales continue for the first 2 weeks, and then post the material for free here online. You should be able to see them here very soon.
Balls Deep!
Lou