Sorry for the delay on this (I’m about an hour late), but I decided to go have dinner with the fam and of COURSE this drops as soon as I leave the house!  At any rate, for those who haven’t seen it yet, there’s an all new, jam-packed, extra flavorful edition of the Hatchet Herald that has probably hit your inboxes!  this one features a HUGE interview with Violent J exclusively about The Mighty Death Pop!  It’s SO huge, in fact, that they’re splitting it up into 2 different editions!  So part 1 dropped today, and hopefully we’ll get part 2 sooner than later!  There are some GREAT Q&As in there, but one of the biggest ones that stuck out to me was this:

QUESTION: Now the first set of Jokers Cards had a countdown of six, till the end consumed us… this second hand is more random in appearance and expectation, so what is the plan to be expected of the final message?

VJ: We left off the graphic showing the 6 boxes with Bang! Pow! Boom! in the first box and question marks in the other 5 because if you look at Carnival of Carnage (the 1st Jokers Card of the 1st Hand), you see that we left it off there as well. We tried to make the 1st Joker’s Card of each hand more of an introduction to the Dark Carnival itself. I think with Death Pop it will all become clearer and the countdown graphic will defiantly be on there.

As for what can you expect for the final outcome, it can only be one thing really. Hell’s Pit again and Shangri-La again. I think the ending to the story will once again be death. The end of your time. Then it’s off to Heaven or Hell. We will release another Shangri-La and Another Hell’s pit album, only this time it will be a new guide taking you there instead of the Wraith. It will be all new music of course but with the 6th Joker’s Card of the 2nd hand. I hope this shit makes since and is as clear to ninjas interested as it is to us, because I can see it in my head clear as day.

The Joker’s Cards are warnings about how to stay outta hell. The Joker’s Cards are really the heart and soul, the nucleus to all things ICP. That to us is the true definition of our band. That’s the only place the real, genuine magic is. It ain’t in who me and Joey are. It ain’t about Psychopathic, or Juggalos even. It’s about what started it all, that Dark Carnival music.

I guess there’s really no other way to end things than your guide to the rest of eternity, but I know that won’t sit too well in some people’s minds.  BUT, we still have 4 more cards (including TMDP) to go through before ending up at the 6th one yet again!  So we’ll see if things change between now and when J and Shaggy are 60.  lol. Now, you can view the entire Hatchet Herald here:

Hatchet Herald: Violent J Interview edition (5/4/12) @ PsychopathicRecords.com

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