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Bloody Pit of Horror (Metal Blade)

Saluting Emerson Lake & Palmer on opening invocation “Zombies, March,” Richmond, Va., papier-mâché performance fivepiece self-soundtracks 1965 Italian cinema splatter Bloody Pit of Horror, adapted from the Marquis de Sade’s self-help tale of “The Crimson Executioner” and what he does to his former girlfriend and her pal-ettes. Thrash lashing (“A Gathering of Ghouls”), mammary abuse (“Tick-Tits”), culinary tips (“You Are My Meat”), and headline rape occur (“The Litany of the Slain”), wherein “Paris Hilton fucked a donkey.” (Saturday, 7:50pm, Black stage)

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This article appears in November 5 • 2010.

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San Francisco native Raoul Hernandez crossed the border into Texas on July 2, 1992, and began writing about music for the Chronicle that fall, debuting with an album review of Keith Richards’ Main Offender. By virtue of local show previews – first “Recommendeds,” now calendar picks – his writing’s appeared in almost every issue since 1993.