An underground documentary, featuring The S.T.D’s

 

This film incorporates over fourteen years of live performances, candid fan and band footage, interviews, and photographic docmentation. The majority of this material has never been seen before. Filming and editing for Covered in Blood, Filled with Hate is currently taking place in Little Rock, Arkansas, and Chicago, Illinois.

 

Born deep in the Bible belt, the self-christened “murder punk” band, The S.T.D.’s, have spread their piss and blood for over 14 years. Covered in Blood, Filled with Hate is the story of their personal violence, hatred, rejection and self-destruction. It documents the band’s ambition to annihilate everything and everyone in its scum-drenched path, especially those in Little Rock, AR. Disturbing on a Biblical level, The S.T.D’s story is wrought with blood, booze and constant disappointment. Their shows are loud and violent. Damaging to venue property and even more hurtful to souls, few music fans dare stay through a full set. People are afraid of the assault, the physical confrontation of gross body fluids and verbal abuse slung with blatant disregard of society’s norms.

 

Struggles start early for the murder punks. Their shows are raided by cops. The lead singer is set on fire during a performance at a porn studio (also known as Mr. Nelson BB-Q). Band members come and go, hard and fast. Music clubs unplug the band, kick them off stage and treat them like a dark contagious disease. But the band fights back by writing some of their most notorious songs. Bible Belt Bullshit, Smash Your Radio and PC Fuckers, Fuck Off target the oppression of living as outcasts in a wholesome Southern society. And just as The S.T.D’s begin to build a sordid cult following, they are faced with being banned from nearly every Little Rock venue. Unable to play locally, they make a long, sick tour to the Bay Area only to realize that the politically correct scensters have taken over. There is no hope of resurrecting Punk in sunny Cali. They quickly return to the Rock. With few opportunities on the home front, they are forced to play mostly DIY house shows, skate parks, and rape caves. Even though the S.T.D’s mange to open for headliners, Antiseen and the Misfits, they receive little recognition for their particular cacophony. Continuous disappointment builds as they face their inner demons. Their story, in its entirety, reveals affecting moments of the sting of rejection and the burn of rockin’ against Hell fire and damnation. In spite of it all, The S.T.D’s remain a nasty stain on the Natural State.