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Dr. Killbot Go Clean For “Harmless Fun Machine” Video (Premiere)
Sometimes we love to post things that are just absolutely ridiculous and absurd. And what better way to do that than by teaming up with Dr. Killbot and showing off their brand new video for “Harmless Fun Machine”? The song is actually a censored version of their incredibly raunchy and filthy track “Heartless Fuck Machine”, which appeared on 2009’s Creature Compendium. And though the lyrics are far more lighthearted and innocent, that doesn’t mean there isn’t still a surreal, nightmarish quality to this clip!
Accordion player Bilbo Badass tells BD, “After some hefty market research, we found that Dr. Killbot needed to expand its reach in the preschool demographic. Our song “Heartless Fuck Machine” had proven popular with adults, so why not repurpose it for the lucrative post-toddler group? We are proud to premiere the video at Bloody Disgusting, nationally recognized as THE source of entertainment news for children aged four to seven.”
You can listen to the original track, “Harmless Fuck Machine”, right here. You can also purchase Creature Compendium via iTunes.
Frontman Jonny Turbo explains:
“Harmless Fun Machine” is the classed up radio edit, great for prime time TV and grandmothers version of “Heartless Fuck Machine.” It’s a delicious slice of soul cheese run through the punk rock lawnmower of a misspent youth. The video plays with the idea of doing good in a place of horror and terror. It was made completely by our accordion player Bilbo Badass, and is chalked full of Easter eggs, cultural references and inside jokes. If you’re anything like us, you’ll be laughing at all the crazy shit happening in the background just as much as what’s front and center.
Now, “Heartless Fuck Machine” comes from the depraved sexual escapades of this band, but the catalyst for the song was Solomon Burke’s “Hold On I’m Cumming,” wherein I always imagined a construction worker coming home after a long day of work, grabbing his paycheck and neglecting his family’s pleas for help, then wasting his entire paycheck on blow and hookers. You know, all that stuff Solomon Burke was into. So, we decided to make our own song along those lines. “Harmless Fun Machine” came about because we thought the over-the-top sexuality of Fuck Machine was funny, but in contrast the over-the-top clean version was even funnier.
Once, We were asked to play a “punk rock wedding” in the middle of nowhere Michigan, where I was able to dedicate “Heartless Fuck Machine” to the groom’s grandmother. She loved it, then we made out in a broom closet. Dr. Killbot is nothing if not a class act.
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Stephen Graham Jones is one of those horror literature names you know, even if you’re not that into horror literature.
The author of The Only Good Indians, My Heart is a Chainsaw, and dozens of other entries in the modern horror canon has built a reputation for two things: Chilling fiction and a jaw-droppingly prolific output, and today we can exclusively reveal the next story he’s unleashing on readers.
On March 9, 2027, Jones and Saga Press will release Ears, a new haunted house horror novella about a down-on-his-luck man who finds an unlucky ally in the ghost of a child in footie pajamas, complete with bunny ears on top.
Here’s the official synopsis:
“Mr. Morning Gun, the hapless narrator of this first person novella, is a disgraced history teacher who now is an unhoused person who is largely living within his electric car and the empty homes he looks after for local real estate agencies in a specific way: He flushes the empty houses toilets to keep, primarily, the wax seals on the toilets fresh, and the plumbing flowing. For this he gets a bit of money under table. One day, at “The Messner House” he gets caught by an aggressive realtor having a tryst, and the ghost of the previous owners’ missing child intervenes, killing the couple, and saving the former teacher and he finds himself embroiled into an ever-increasing layer of cover-ups as the girl in the lavender footie pajamas keeps killing folks to keep the house empty, except for him.”
What inspired a story like this? For Jones, it began with something very practical, which quickly morphed into a new expression of horror.
“I was wondering if the chargers for electric cars are universal or not, but didn’t know how to phrase a search to figure that out, so I had to figure it out the only way I know how: with a story—with horror,” Jones told Bloody Disgusting. “With, as it turned out, a haunted house. So, now I know that they probably are universal. And that that leads to… to bad things.”
Bloody Disgusting is pleased to exclusively reveal the haunting cover for Ears, designed by Luisa Dias.
Ears is the latest entry in Jones’ always-busy publishing schedule, which includes a new novel, Off the Reservation, arriving this fall from Saga. Beginning next spring, Saga will also reissue three of Jones’ earlier horror works for a new generation of readers, delivering new editions of Demon Theory, The Last Final Girl, and Growing Up Dead In Texas.
Those reissues don’t have firm release dates yet, but you can expect Ears to arrive on March 9, 2027.
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