''Rock Bible'' is the third studio album by American
heavy metal band the
Mentors
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. The lyrical content changed from sexism to the band's personal turmoil, although there were some sexist songs and one, "My Daughter Is a Strawberry", had racist lyrics (tongue in cheek of course, as Insect on Acid, who is black african, was a member of the band during this time period):
It was only available on cassette on its original release. Rick Lomas (Insect on Acid) plays drums on most tracks, due to El Duce's increasing struggles with alcoholism. Bootleggers sold bad-quality MP3 rips of the tape bundled with the
Get Up and Die EP as CDs before an official CD version was released in 2007, remastered from the original cassette.
A demo tape from the sessions that produced this album, recorded in 1989, exists. The tape was acquired by a Mentors fan from a friend of the band in 1993, before being uploaded to the Internet ten years later. It contains unmixed versions of "Constantly Jackin'", "Chicks with Dicks", "Panhandler", and "Cardboard Condo", as well as 3 otherwise unreleased tracks: "Million Dollar High", "Eddie Anaconda", and "Airhead Stare". The tape also contains studio chatter, of which remnants can be heard in the released album. "Million Dollar High" would later see official release as a bonus track on the 2019 CD reissue of ''
Houses of the Horny
''Houses of the Horny'' is a studio album by the Mentors released in 1994, containing demo versions of tracks from what would have been their next album. The album was the last Mentors release in El Duce's lifetime, and was sold at Mentors concer ...
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Lyrics from "Cardboard Condo" were reused in the track "Living on Welfare" from El Duce's 1993 solo album ''
Slave to Thy Master''.
Track listing
Demo tape track listing
Personnel
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El Duce
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— lead vocals, drums on Jump Through the Hoops and Hilljack Heaven
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— guitar
* Dr. Heathen Scum — bass
* Insect On Acid — keyboards/Drums on all other tracks
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1990 albums
Mentors (band) albums