The Other, ‘Back to the Cemetery’ — Song Premiere

The Other traffic in that darkly gothic, B movie-friendly sound that made metal household names out of Type O Negative and Danzig. We at Noisecreep like ghoulish hard rock, and that's why were are exclusively premiering the Other's 'Back to the Cemetery,' which appears on their album 'New Blood.'

Vocalist Rod Usher told Noisecreep about the, er, creepy, sanguine and utterly stomach-turning origins of the song's subject matter, saying, "It all started out years before we founded the Other at a time when I was working in the intensive care unit of a hospital. Patients died all the time but I usually had nothing to do with this until one day, I had to help the coroners after an autopsy. They took the corpse to the morgue and I had to clean up the steel-tub after that. Lots of blood and pus ... not very pleasant. The corpse looked all messed up, and since we don't have open casket ceremonies in Germany, it was going to be buried just like that. Too many horror movies made me think, 'Man, imagine some grave robber digging up that corpse.'"

Listen to 'Back to the Cemetery'

Usher further said, "When coming up with the chorus for 'Back to the Cemetery,' I just found the words to sound good together. I had to find a reason for somebody to go to a cemetery and keep coming back, to make the chorus make any sense. And in these times, where everything needs to have a reason, a use and a value, the idea came to me, that even dead human bodies can be a natural resource that hasn't really been exploited yet.

"Grave robbers could make a damn good business by digging up corpses and selling that fat to make fake boobs, selling the testicles in Asia as an aphrodisiac, making lamp-shades out of skin -- well, you get the idea. Obviously this is not meant to be a serious song, but rather a satire on a society that will use everything to make a profit." Ah yes, just like Jonathan Swift's 'A Modest Proposal.'

"This could actually be a good video clip or maybe a horror movie," the singer said. "But until then, please check out the song -- or rather the whole album -- and let other monster fans know about the Other. Stay scared!"

Don't worry, Rod. We already are.