According to Bruce, "I could easily see myself killing pedophiles in real life and having no guilt. Inspired by the television series To Catch a Predator, the song's lyrics describe Violent J luring pedophiles into his house to violently murder them. According to Bruce, "Mike's beat for this was so fuckin' crazy sounding I had no idea what the fuck to do with it." "To Catch a Predator" was written during the mixing process, when the group realized that the album needed a song "that attacks an evil". "The Bone" features surf rock-influenced guitars. Īccording to Bruce, "In Yo Face" was originally titled "Pie in Yo Face", but it was decided that the final title sounded better. The album features a series of skits in which rednecks, pedophiles, and husbands who abuse their wives receive phone calls inviting them to the Dark Carnival, where they are promised US$100,000 for arriving. The album was later revealed to be the first Joker's Card of a "second deck." Bang! Pow! Boom! is a character within the Dark Carnival which Bruce describes as a "continuous explosion that stomps his way through the crowd blowing evil souls to Hell". Bang! Pow! Boom! was the first album to focus on this concept since Hell's Pit. "Intro", introducing the entity Bang! Pow! Boom!Īccording to Bruce, the goal was to produce an album that was "very much a part of the Dark Carnival, without it being the seventh Joker's Card". And as attractions open wide to accommodate crowds frantically clawing their way inside, he will come to perform the cleansing." "There comes a time, every so often, when the Dark Carnival begins to swell with the countless souls awaiting judgement, and the thriving mob begins to tear at each other to find a place in lines that stretch out of view. Much material was recorded for the album some songs left off the initial release appeared on the "Nuclear Edition" reissue, while another song intended for Bang! Pow! Boom!, "If I Ate Your Brains", was released as part of a single for the 2009 Hallowicked concert. In order to ensure the quality of their vocal recordings, Bruce and Utsler drank tea before every take and didn't smoke cannabis while recording. Bruce listened to music by the progressive rock band Gong for inspiration. Bang! Pow! Boom! was recorded between September 2008 and July 2009 at Clark's Fun House Studio. Bang! Pow! Boom! was the first album which Clark worked on directly with Joseph Bruce and Joseph Utsler since Bizaar. In 2006, Clark returned to Psychopathic Records and produced the group's tenth studio album, The Tempest in 2007, but did not work with the group directly. After Clark nearly died from a collapsed lung, he became less active in the music industry, his studio not being used for much of the early decade, and the group worked with Mike Puwal on their eighth and ninth albums, The Wraith: Shangri-La and Hell's Pit. Clark produced much of Insane Clown Posse's discography until the group's sixth and seventh albums, Bizzar and Bizaar. The music video for the song " Miracles", produced for the reissue became popular and was the subject of a Saturday Night Live parody which was praised by the group. In 2010, Psychopathic Records released a "Nuclear Edition" of the album, which featured previously unreleased material. Critics praised Clark's production and the return to the Dark Carnival concept. Bang! Pow! Boom! peaked at number four in the Billboard Top 200. The album's title refers to a character within the Dark Carnival described as a large, continuing explosion that clears evil souls from the carnival grounds. The character is the first of a set of six new Joker's Cards. Clark since his return to Psychopathic Records, and the first album to focus on the Dark Carnival since the conclusion of the group's original " Joker's Cards" series. Released on Septemby Psychopathic Records, it was the group's second album with producer Mike E. Bang! Pow! Boom! is the eleventh studio album by American hip hop group Insane Clown Posse.
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