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Behind the Screams: Week Two

Bullet Hole

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“A Bullet Hole by any other Name”.

The release of Bullet Hole polarised listeners and media a like. Online alt media brand, Catatonic Youths, trolled us by mockingly looping the hook; while the songs premiere on Heavy Mag ended up doing over 44k views. Love it or Hate it, it’s a hook that sticks.

Bullet Hole was one of the first songs I wrote for the band and at this time Kaosis was a DJ act featuring myself on vocals, VIVIVI on guitar/ DJ’ing and our OG hype girl, Emma C aka Dilemma.

In true Kaosis fashion, our first gig that I had secured was at Rhythm and Vines. New Zealand’s biggest and longest standing New Years event. The booking took months of negotiation but in the end we got the gig. Not only did we get the gig but we were to play the headlining slot on the opening night. They call these the “Warm Up Parties” and these gigs are renowned for being the most frenetic of the festival. 10k kids turn up the night before the official lineups begin and set up camp. High on day one FOMO and having festival fresh livers the kids get bent beyond repair, normally at the expense of writing off the next day or two of official entertainment. A fitting platform to launch this hyperactive new metalstep three piece.

Leading into this event we needed to play a couple of warmup dates of our own. I hadn’t been on stage as a musician in about 7 years - gulp - and we needed to test drive the show before we went and played a major festival billing.

Despite having been booked at a top slot on the opening night of RnV, I struggled to get bookings in dance clubs with the extreme image and lack of show experience with the Kaosis brand. The only way we could secure bookings was to get a ringer act.

We found Jay Bulletproof, who is the godfather of Dubstep in Aotearoa. He help us out by taking lowball guarantees and I booked in a couple of shows.

The first show we ever played was at Raglan’s infamous Yott Club. The show packed out and was a success straight off the bat. However, I don’t think Jay really knew what he was in for. As he took the stage to a room of flogged out punters he’s said something to the effect of “I dunno what that was, electro juggalo dubstep? It was entertaining for sure”. The crowd were rinsed, looking for a place to recover from the insanity of the Kaosis set. Bewildered Jay took the stage wondering why on earth he took this booking. Chuckle chuckle.

After the show we were taking off our makeup at the hotel and a crew member said that he was going to go back and watch “Bullet Hole”, a faux pa on Jay’s stage name “Bulletproof”. Gavin, our sound man, blurted out, “Fuck that! Im rinsed, we fucked that show in the Bullet Hole”. The room cracked up at the grotesque and visceral statement. The band members and crew started chanting “Fuck you in the Bullet Hole”.  Thus the name of the song was coined and the rest is history.

Music Video:

https://youtu.be/-q5O7S8Zrs0

The video that you have all seen is the second video we shot for this song. The first video was shot about 9 months previous and was an elaborate undertaking. The original video was shot on a 360 camera and was a first person perspective about a man abducting a woman in a revenge killing, only to be killed himself with a bullet to the head. You know general GA stuff. It was shot in two long single takes.

However, the technology really didn’t take off. I expected VR to be big, with people watching more content with goggles but it certainly did not.

Also by the time we came to releasing this single the lineup of the band had changed so significantly that I was the only musician left from the original lineup so it was weird to see the back ground band performance in the final scene. So I opted to reshoot. This first Bullet Hole video was also when I saw 0m3n’s potential to perform. She pulled out a spectacular performance as captive, soon she become a full member of the band.

The second take of the video was the last video we shot for the Hitech Lowlife album cycle, by this stage in the album roll out the priority was quick content. We booked the local hall and hung some grey sheets I got from a Warehouse bargain bin, placed a layer of painters drop sheets in front of that and boom we had a scene. I was under the impression we had the hall all night. But around 7pm, on our final wide shot, we had a congregation of Filipino church goers turn up ready to perform their weekly peace offerings to the grim overlord in the sky.

To their horror there was no God in the hall that night, just five undead demons and a hound straight from hell, screaming profanities and dancing like possessed apes.

Needless to say, I got a complaint letter from the hall admin the following Monday, the God Botherer’s claimed we were practising some kind of evil ritual in their sacred time slot. I had no response back when I claimed the same thing about the Christo’s. Chortle Chortle.

Inspirations for this tune were:

NWA, Cypress Hill, Excision, Body Count and The Prodigy. I really liked the Judgement Night soundtrack back in the day and this song reminds me of that era. Circa ’93.

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