Stumbling out of Boise, Idaho, The Scrotums stunned us all when they released the "Kill Your Teachers" EP on Jerk Now records. Lead track "Aerosol Can" provided the missing link between Iron Butterfly and Bad Brains that some of us had been waiting twenty years to hear. Led by childhood friends Kyle Krystonovich and Chad Krytolevovitz they illuminated those dark, dank winter months of 1990 with something darker and danker than we'd ever heard before. Their second release was even better, not a piece of music as such, but a phial of Krystonovich's blood smeared on remnants of a Chuckie's chilli dog toastie and sent to key members of the US underground. After that we couldn't ignore them. An incendiary version of The Archies "Sugar Sugar" followed which farted in the face of Dan Quayle. Just when it appeared they'd go supernova it ended in the most tragic manner possible. Krystonovich, always an angst ridden and troubled character, suddenly and without any warning, found a job in insurance and moved to Texas.
But they shouldn't be BCB forgotten. Any takers?
