Ocassionally, a band releases something that feels tailor-made to your specific interests. That's how I feel about "COCAINE MANE," the latest music video from FILTH's slam offshoot SLAM BAND. Crushing guitars, nonsensical lyrics, a clip from Heavy Metal, and Walton Goggins? This was made for me and no one else. If others enjoy it, that's incidental. Great, but not what matters to me. No disrespect to #GutterGang, obviously.
This latest offering from SLAM BAND's new album, THE ALBUM, establishes the m.o. quickly with a sample of Emmy-nominated actor Walton Goggins (Fallout, The Shield, The Hateful Eight) as septuagenarian pastor Uncle Baby Billy Freeman from HBO's The Righteous Gemstones making an impassioned plea to Jesse and Judy Gemstone (Danny McBride and Edi Patterson, respectively):
I ain't asking for the world here. I'm just asking for a 8-ball and 2 million dollars.
Those iconic words, chopped up and repeated throughout, are the closest thing this, or any SLAM BAND track, has had to intelligible lyrics. Fittingly, the track climaxes with a second Baby Billy quote as he dips into the secret stash of cocaine hidden in his ring:
God, bless this cocaine to give me the gas to beat this demon. (snorts a big bump of cocaine) Cocaaaaaaine!
In between, the band deliver one of their hardest, slammingest tracks yet. Note how, at around 0:49, the band shifts into a third, even lower gear than the intro and "verse" section, adding some hip-hop to the beat before the guitars and bass fall out completely. When the stringed instruments return, the pace is absolutely turgid, but the bass drum and hi-hat are still kicking. The fluid change-ups help the brief track feel more complete and involved than its brief 2:22 runtime would suggest.
This latest music video continues SLAM BAND's love of repurposed animation and millennial touchstones. In addition to some old-school snow and skiing (wink wink) themed cartoons, "COCAINE MANE" features an especially wild clip culled from 1981's Canadian adult animation cult classic Heavy Metal. The origin of this particular clip is the segment "So Beautiful & So Dangerous," based on the Angus McKie comic of the same name.
It tells the story of a mysterious doctor and woman whisked away from the Pentagon by aliens after the doctor spots the woman wearing a glowing green necklace and proceeds to motorboat her without her consent. The doctor is revealed to be an android and gets severely damaged once aboard the ship. The ship's robot, voiced by John Candy, convinces the woman to have sex with him. Meanwhile, the ship's two pilots, Edsel (Eugene Levy) and Zeke (Harold Ramis) kill time by snorting massive amounts of a white, powdery drug, Plutonian Nyborg, before flying off and crashing their ship into a space station.
Fans jonesing for a taste of that SLAM BAND/FILTH energy can check out the band live throughout the month of December at Mosh For Tots and on their Very Filthy Christmas Tour with special guests Narcotic Wasteland and Killcrown. Click here for tickets and info.
Check out upcoming dates and the music video for "COCAINE MANE" below.
THE ALBUM is out now via Gutter Music Records.
Mosh For Tots 2026
11/07 Savannah, GA @ District Live
A Very Filthy Christmas Tour
12/11 Portage, IN @ Shenanigans Live
12/12 Battle Creek, MI @ The Music Factory
12/14 Cudahy, WI @ X-Ray Arcade
12/15 Louisville, KY @ Magnolia Bar
12/16 Greenville, SC @ Radio Room
12/18 Dayton, OH @ The Hidden Gem Music Club
12/19 Akron, OH @ Afterlife Live Performance Recording Studio
12/20 Albany, NY @ Empire Underground
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