Shout at the Devil

"Then the fans start yelling..." He stops suddenly to laugh, as if the idea of a bona fide Racebannon fan is the most ludicrous thing he's ever heard of. "I mean, the crowd starts yelling, 'You suck! You suck!' I'm just looking them in the face while I'm making more noise. The more you tell me to stop, the longer I'll keep going. That's kind of what we enjoy: pissing you off."

When it comes to getting under people's skin, the last person you'd probably want to get on the bad side of is El Diablo's old sparring partner, Jesus Christ. He is, after all, the ultimate Comeback Kid, a man known to pack a mean left hook, backed by a hell of a posse -- a fact of which Racebannon is all too aware.

My name is Legion: Dave Britts (no longer in the band), Mike Anderson (from left), Mike Bell, Brad Williams, James Bauman and Chris Saligoe are the faces of Racebannon.

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"We're moving in a different direction now. We're really into finding Jesus," Bauman comments soberly, choking back a giggle. "We've had a lot of problems with this whole Satan thing, lots of van accidents. We almost died in a horrible wreck on the first day of our last tour -- all this bad shit was going on. But we have a really nice, new van now. We're really going to try to do things right from now on.

"And we're not going to talk too much about Satan anymore," he adds. "We'll be playing songs off the new record on this tour, but we'll be thinking about Our Lord Jesus Christ while we're doing it."

Sure they will. When asked if he's being serious, Bauman replies in a sarcastic twang that pretty much epitomizes Racebannon's whole irreverent, see-you-in-Hell attitude: "Yeah, totally," he says, sounding as unctuously sincere as Satan himself. "Well, except for the Jesus part."