Viggo Mortensen

Viggo Mortensen

The Cuckoo Clocks Of Hell

Track listing

#

Title

Length

1.

"Descent of the Damned"  

3:07

2.

"Spokes for the Wheel of Torment"  

2:17

3.

"Arc of the Pendulum"  

2:32

4.

"Fountains of the Forgotten"  

3:22

5.

"The Treeman"  

3:40

6.

"Pylegathon"  

2:35

7.

"Traveling Morgue"  

3:18

8.

"One Tooth of the Time Train"  

3:27

9.

"Bedlam's Bluff"  

3:15

10.

"Beaten With Sledges"  

2:52

11.

"Woods of Suicide"  

3:28

12.

"Yellowed Hide"  

3:37

13.

"Moths to Flame"  

3:13

14.

"The Ravines of Falsehood"  

3:11

15.

"The Black Forest"  

2:12

16.

"Haven of Black Tar Pitch"  

3:19

17.

"The Escape Wheel"  

2:52

52:22

Trivia

This album is commonly mistaken for the unreleased album Super Diorama Theater.

The song "The Ravines of Falsehood" is an expansion of the tracks "Slaughter Zone Entrance" and "Slaughter Zone Exit" from Bucketheadland 2.[citation needed]

The album shares its name with the alternative title to the 1977 horror film Last House on Dead End Street.

The song "Woods of Suicides" is likely a reference to the comic book series The Sandman, in which the Woods of Suicides are an area in Hell. Artist Dave McKean, who worked with Buckethead on Monsters & Robots in 1999 drew early sketches for The Sandman. The area in Sandman was itself a reference to Dante's Inferno.

The two songs "Spokes for the Wheel of Torment" and "Beaten with Sledges" are commonly mistaken for the other because of a mistaken tag circulating around fans. This comes from a Torrent which mislabels all but two of the songs of the album.[citation needed]

Spokes for the Wheel of Torment

"Spokes for the Wheel of Torment"

Song by Buckethead

from the album The Cuckoo Clocks of Hell

Released

April 20, 2004

Recorded

John Merrick Recorder

Genre

Heavy Metal, experimental rock

Length

2:17

Label

Disembodied Records

Writer

Buckethead, Dan Monti

Producer

Dan Monti

The Cuckoo Clocks of Hell track listing

"Descent of the Damned"

(1)

"Spokes for the Wheel of Torment"

(2)

"Arc of the Pendulum"

(3)

"Spokes for the Wheel of Torment" is the second song from the album and one of a few that have a music video (the other were "The Ballad of Buckethead" from the album Monsters and Robots, "We Are One" from Buckethead's 2005 album Enter the Chicken, "Pyrrhic Victory" by Thanatopsis, and "Viva Voltron", for the animated series Voltron).

Music Video

Stylized image of Buckethead in the song's video clip

The "Tree Man" from Hieronymus Bosch, The Garden of Earthly Delights triptych

The music video was directed by Syd Garon and Eric Henry featuring additional artwork by long time Buckethead collaborator Bryan "Frankenseuss" Theiss. The video is based on the famous triptychs by Hieronymus Bosch, The Garden of Earthly Delights, The Last Judgement, the Paradise and Hell, and The Temptation of St. Anthony.

The music video starts showing a place that looks like hell where Buckethead has a lute and is carried by a flying beast which releases him. Buckethead ends in the hands of the "Prince of Hell" from the The Garden of Earthly Delights triptych.

Buckethead gets eaten by the creature and his head, the lute and the two arms fall, getting themselves stuck on a tree where Buckethead starts to play a part of the song. While he plays, a lot of people getting killed are shown in several ways and a bird is picking body parts. Then the "Tree Man" from the same triptych is shown and the camera changes to the upper part of the triptych where all is on fire.

Buckethead keeps playing and when the song finishes the screen goes black and the credits appear showing the triptychs by Hieronymus Bosch. After the credits the camera pulls to show the credits were on a circular shape. During this time, parts of the song "Traveling Morgue" from the same album are played. The screen goes black again and the words "Beware, Beware, God Sees" appear.

The clip was shown at some film festivals around the world, such as the Sydney Film Festival, amongst others.

The music video has been officially made available in 2006, as part of the Anxious Animation DVD release as well as Buckethead's own video compilation Secret Recipe.

Credits

Buckethead - guitars

Dan Monti - programming and producer

Syd Garon - director

Eric Henry - director

Bryan "Frankenseuss" Theiss - additional artwork

Hieronymus Bosch - paintings

Scott Halford - photoshop

Dan Meagher - photoshop

Gina Festagallo - photoshop

Cristie Henry - photoshop

Personnel

Performers

Buckethead Taxidermy, embalming, and clock repair.

Bryan "Brain" Mantia drums.

Dan Monti Producer, engineer, mixing, programming.

Production

Robert Hadley - Mastering.

Bryan Theiss - Artwork.

P-Sticks - Artwork (back cover, inside portrait of library).

Steven Morrison - Title inspiration.

References

^ 52nd Sydney Film Festival

^ 2005 bitfilm festival

^ http://www.avclub.com/content/node/49499

^ http://www.discogs.com/viewimages?release=1811875

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Buckethead

Travis Dickerson  Bill Laswell  Bootsy Collins  Les Claypool  Bryan "Brain" Mantia  Bernie Worrell  Serj Tankian  John Zorn  Pinchface  Extrakd  DJ Disk  Maximum Bob  Efrem Schulz  Saul Williams  Gigi  Maura Davis  Azam Ali  Jas Obrecht  Bill Moseley  Dan Monti

Studio albums

Bucketheadland (1992)  Giant Robot (1994)  Day of the Robot (1996)  Colma (1998)  Monsters and Robots (1999)  Somewhere Over the Slaughterhouse (2001)  Funnel Weaver (2002)  Bermuda Triangle (2002)  Electric Tears (2002)  Bucketheadland 2 (2003)  Island of Lost Minds (2004)  Population Override (2004)  The Cuckoo Clocks of Hell (2004)  Enter the Chicken (2005)  Kaleidoscalp (2005)  Inbred Mountain (2005)  The Elephant Man's Alarm Clock (2006)  Crime Slunk Scene (2006)  Pepper's Ghost (2007)  Decoding the Tomb of Bansheebot (2007)  Cyborg Slunks (2007)  Albino Slug (2008)  Slaughterhouse on the Prairie (2009)   A Real Diamond in the Rough (2009)   Forensic Follies (2009)   Needle in a Slunk Stack (2009)   Shadows Between the Sky (2010)

Extended plays

KFC Skin Piles (2001)

Special releases

In Search of The (2007)  Acoustic Shards (2007)  Bucketheadland Blueprints (re-release) (2007)  From the Coop (2008)

Videos

Secret Recipe (2005)  Young Buckethead Vol. 1 (2006)  Young Buckethead Vol. 2 (2006)

Demos

Giant Robot (1991)  Bucketheadland Blueprints (1991)

Unreleased albums

Buckethead Plays Disney  Super Diorama Theater

As Death Cube K

Dreamatorium (1994)  Disembodied (1997)  Tunnel (1999)  DCK (2007)  Monolith (2007)  Torn from Black Space (2009)

Notable songs

Welcome to Bucketheadland (1994)  Binge and Grab (Instrumental Version) (1994)  Big Sur Moon (1998)  The Ballad of Buckethead (1999)  Somewhere Over the Slaughterhouse (2001)  Spokes for the Wheel of Torment (2004)  We Are One (2005) Botnus (2005)  Three Fingers (2005)  Jordan (2006)   The Landing Beacon (2009)

with Artists

Bryan "Brain" Mantia

Kevin's Noodle House

Travis Dickerson

Chicken Noodles  Chicken Noodles II  Iconography

Jonas Hellborg & Michael Shrieve

Octave of the Holy Innocents

Viggo Mortensen

One Less Thing to Worry About  Recent Forgeries  The Other Parade  One Man's Meat  Pandemoniumfromamerica  Please Tomorrow  This, That, and The Other  Intelligence Failure  At All

Alix Lambert & Travis Dickerson

Running After Deer

Travis Dickerson and Brain

The Dragons of Eden

with Bands

Deli Creeps

Deli Creeps Demo Tape 1991  Deli Creeps Demo Tape 1996  Dawn of the Deli Creeps

Praxis

Transmutation (Mutatis Mutandis)  Sacrifist  Metatron  Live in Poland  Transmutation Live  Collection  Warszawa  Zurich  Tennessee 2004  Profanation (Preparation for a Coming Darkness)

Cornbugs

Spot the Psycho  Cemetery Pinch  How Now Brown Cow  Brain Circus  Donkey Town  Rest Home for Robots  Skeleton Farm  Celebrity Psychos  Quackers!  Headcheese

Thanatopsis

Thanatopsis  Axiology  Anatomize

Shin Terai

Unison  Heaven & Hell  Lightyears

Guns N' Roses

Chinese Democracy

Cobra Strike

13th Scroll  Cobra Strike II: Y, Y+B, X+Y

Bands: Pieces | Giant Robot | Colonel Claypool's Bucket of Bernie Brains | Gorgone | Science Faxtion | Frankenstein Brothers

Labels: Serjical Strike Records | TDRS Music | Axiom | Sony Japan | Higher Octave

Buckethead Discography

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