KERTONE PRODUCTION presents CHAPTER 5

It's the logo you see before every Video Chapter.
But they do not only take part in the videos...
You must know something :
If MOPA is recording in L.A., we must be grateful to KERTONE PRODUCTION.
These 2 guys, Ox & Kert, are the guys with the biggest balls in France... I mean they got the bravery to bet on MOPA, and let us do this huge record with Ross Robinson. They are not scared. They believe in us. They believe in what life will bring.
I think there must be worse executive producers on Earth !
They guys trust us, and don't touch our artistic direction, nor ours neither Ross's.

It's good to feel that guys... Thanx you so much for that.

Look at the new video : The Chapter 5 ! You will see them dancing in the car ;-))))
Thanx again to Tesh for the video, and to Pierre RED Ollier for the shooting and the pictures.

MY OWN PRIVATE ALASKA / The Recording Sessions - Chapter Five

Metalocalypse

A deathmetal band becomes so huge that it becomes the 12th wealth of the world ! Before lots of whole nations...
Their influence on the people is so unbelievable that the government secrety wants to kill them, so they can stay the 1st trustful entity on Earth.
But the guys of DETHKLOK are stronger... cause they're lucky and stupid. They never die... And they rock !

We "eat" this cartoon since the beginning of july cause Ross is a huuuuuuuge fan of it. We now know the episodes by heart. Watch it, buy the dvd, weat the Murderface tshirt ;-)

... And don't forget to work on the shred guitar part of the introduction music !

Building a pyramid of sand

It's hard to build a pyramid of sand.
You build it cause it's beautiful. Cause you don't know nothing except building things.
And you like building.

But you know how fragile it is.
And there are so many people who can walk on it, blow on it, shit on it...
Some people only watch, but can destroy it watching it from too close.
And some people only want to get it destroyed. Cause it's so beautiful they can't swallow they can't build one.

So you've got the builders, the watchers, and the destructors.
Fuck, they're so many destructors.
It's so hard to take care of such pyramids. Even you can be used to.

There is one thing you must know : destructors don't build pyramids.
Destructors talk.
Destructors don't create.
Destructors suck blood. Cause they don't know how to live peacefully with theirs. Their blood is boiling. Fuck, it's a pot...

You can kill the destroyers from your watchtower.

But I don't want to become a murderer, you know.
And watchtowers are so ugly for my eyes in the landscape.

Birth of the Anti Mother

It's the title of the last NORMA JEAN record.
It has been very recently released. And of course, we knew this album before the release cause the guys recorded with Ross at the same place as us. We listened to this record during the whole month of july and now the world can hear what it's about...
"The Anti Mother".

We met the NORMA JEAN a few days ago here after their Warped Tour. Because I'm too shy, I haven't been able to express how the sounds and the lyrics moved me. Corey, dude, B.A. ! Your lyrics are so rough and meaningful... If you knew how loud we sang "Robots 3 - Humans 0" in the L.A. streets this night, when we were so drunk !... So fun. Or not. ;-)

Cause it's the "Anti Mother" album, here are the lyrics of the "Birth of the Anti Mother" song. Enjoy NORMA JEAN, don't download their record, buy it, you won't be disappointed.

NORMA JEAN - Birth of the Anti Mother

From the bloodline of vicious serpents, a dreadful heart within a lovely shell
A demons heart, but with the face of God
I guess a liar’s heart is still true even if her lips are not
The vomit that flows out from your mouth has seeped into your chest
Searching for the strength to breathe in one last lie from you, but right now the grave seems so much easier
The fear of that devil in me… it comes from you
You’re like the smoke in the window
She comes for sorrow
She comes for lies
We came here for blood
Did you? Yes or no? No one’s getting out because we came for blood
We’re not breathing and I don’t care, because no ones breathing…
She’s not breathing. Choke that witch out
Suffocate her
Choke her out

Being an artist in 2008

I don't know how people imagine us.
The people who don't know us. Who never saw us. Never talked to us.
What is the screenshot ?

Do you see artists living on icebergs, without any link with society ? With urban life ?
Maybe I'd like you to see that.
I'd like to spend all the days of my normal life going fishing, talking to friends, listening to beautiful music (EQUUS for example...), playing football, making love to my girlfriends, seeing beautiful landscapes, walking in the forest, watching movies, and then going to bed and making love again...
But it's not the way it is.

We got no manager. We got no label.
If you see us somewhere, it's because we've worked for that somehow.
If you read us somewhere, it's because we've worked for that somehow.
If you listen to us somewhere, it's because we've worked for that somehow.
We work.
Everything we get, we earn it.
That's why we deserve everything that comes. Us and everybody.
We've worked for that before so it happens. And it happens. There's no miracle.
Let's try to behave as good as possible to make it happen. And it'll happen.

Fruits come when you sowed the seeds before.
And I think miracles come when you concentrate on sowing love.

We sow so many seeds... damn, it willl become a whole forest.

Chapter Four

Tristan played the piano.
Red shooted the videos.
Tesh made the Chapter Four.
Alleluia.
;-)

MY OWN PRIVATE ALASKA / The Recording Sessions - Chapter Four

LilBush

He's Daniel Steinbaum.

He's LilBush.
©
;-)

LilBush is an engineer. Sound engineer. Ross's special engineer.
If somethink is working here, thank LilBush. If something isn't, call LilBush. ;-)
I mean Ross could do it himself, but LilBush's hands are so gifted and fast that he won every studio rapidity contest, Carl Levis style...

LilBush is also someone you like to have with you to work with. No pressure. No faked smiles. No negativity. Damn. They should copyright this guy at Sony, Virgin or Universal for their artists...

And you know why ? LilBush knows several french words, and understands quite well ! He's Ross's spy when we're talking shit in the studio. He maybe prevents us from telling too many french bullshits !

You want to know why we call him LilBush ? Click here :

Lil Bush Exclusive from Season 1 DVD
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You know what LilBush ? You rule ! Bad ass !
Thanx from all the MOPAs