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Metal Hammer
Metal Hammer
Entertainment
Rich Hobson

"It felt like my head was going to explode." Alligator murder, police raids and abandoned adult theatres: the story of the chaotic video shoot that helped make an underground 90s band cult legends

Acid Bath Live 1990s.

Acid Bath weren't cut out to be MTV stars. The Louisiana band with an obsession with death and murderers who mixed death metal, doom and blues into a sludgy package, they were about as underground as you could get in 1994. But that didn't mean they were without aspiration.

When the band released their 1994 debut When The Kite String Pops, they headed out into the swamps to make their first - and only - music video, for the song Toubabo Koomi (French Cajun for "Land of the White Cannibals"). Like a lot of things that happened to the band in the early 90s, it was a disaster. Speaking to Hammer earlier this year, bassist Sammy Duet and vocalist Dax Riggs shared how the video almost landed the band in hot water.

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