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Their sons in Ice Nine Kills may have eclipsed them, but for a sleazy moment in 1987, Grave Diggler left its stain on hard partying rock n' roll with decadence, desecrations, and panty raids. The group once stood shoulder to shoulder with Poison, Mötley Crüe, and W.A.S.P., before bad business and worse drugs dampened the fire in their loins. The music video for "Hell or High Slaughter" was banned before it ever premiered, and by the early '90s — thanks in no small part to notoriously volatile frontman Sonny Charnas — Grave Diggler faded from the spotlight.
But history has a strange way of digglering up the past. When the directors behind Ready or Not began work on the sequel, they desperately wanted a classic Grave Diggler anthem. The ensuing legal battle between fathers and sons resulted in Ice Nine Kills re-recording "Hell or High Slaughter (Grave Diggler: Pt. 2)" for the Ready or Not 2: Here I Come soundtrack. The renewed interest means the long-lost music video will finally see the light of day, alongside the forthcoming documentary Laid to Rest: The Grave Diggler Story.
But even as the track blazes into Ready or Not 2, Sonny Charnas remains characteristically unimpressed. "You call my son shrieking into a microphone like a meshuggah mental patient 'singing'? That's not heavy metal. I'm heavy metal."
But history has a strange way of digglering up the past. When the directors behind Ready or Not began work on the sequel, they desperately wanted a classic Grave Diggler anthem. The ensuing legal battle between fathers and sons resulted in Ice Nine Kills re-recording "Hell or High Slaughter (Grave Diggler: Pt. 2)" for the Ready or Not 2: Here I Come soundtrack. The renewed interest means the long-lost music video will finally see the light of day, alongside the forthcoming documentary Laid to Rest: The Grave Diggler Story.
But even as the track blazes into Ready or Not 2, Sonny Charnas remains characteristically unimpressed. "You call my son shrieking into a microphone like a meshuggah mental patient 'singing'? That's not heavy metal. I'm heavy metal."