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Why Not Watch Deez Nuts Party With a Snake?

Melbourne's hardest partying hardcore bros say there are toning it down. Really?

There’s often a divide between devoted punters and their favourite bands. Those who seem like cool party dudes on record or on stage can be totally different - even A-grade wankers - once the encore comes to an end. So it’s refreshing to know that with a band like Deez Nuts what you get on the packet is what you get in real life; a band that likes to drink beer, play house parties and hold live snakes on the weekend too.

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The Melbourne band are set to release Word is Bond, their fourth album and one that could potentially divide fans, as they depart from their party based themes and confront “exactly what happens when the party stops.”

That doesn’t mean they’re giving up the genuine party spirit of the past and the video for “What I Gotta Do”, illustrates what happens when Deez Nuts get asked to perform at a house party.

Frontman JJ Peters drops some behind the scene goss on the new video.

Noisey: Is there a continuing theme or story through the three (soon to be four) clips for Word Is Bond?
JJ Peters: Originally we planned to tie the videos together with a continuing story, but we failed to find a way to make them segue. But I guess there’s still lingering evidence of the original idea, if you watch "Face This On My Own" and ‘What I Gotta Do’ back to back, you still get the vibe that in one video we are walking to, and finally entering, the party setting of the other video.

What is it about house parties that makes the perfect setting for a Deez Nuts clip?
Haha everything. It's funny, we avoided doing a house party clip for the longest time because it just seemed too obvious. But "What I Gotta Do" is by no means a party song, it's one of the more pissed and personal songs for me lyrically. When we were pitched the party clip idea for that song, the juxtaposition made it work differently and seem a lot less cliché.

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Is it weird having to act out a party scene?
I would say it definitely would be if you were acting it out, but we literally just partied and then performed a bit of the song every now and then. We'd spent all day drinking and doing takes for another more choreographed video, so we were sufficiently inebriated and the party video was a walk in the park by comparison. But I would say anyone there that was sober probably had a horrible time.

Are you looking towards more narrative based clips in the future?
Yeah we are, we actually have something in the works that's narrative based with Ambitious Films, we will be shooting that in Europe during our summer festival run. This new album lends itself more to things of this nature we haven't felt comfortable doing in the past, it will be cool to see how this turns out.

Would you say snakes are the un-official logo of the hardcore scene?
(Laughs) Sure, why not. No actually, I would probably say the panther is. Panthers are pretty hot right now, but our panther plug fell through - so we had to hit up our snake guy. Honestly though, I don't know where that snake came from or why it was there.

"Word Is Bond", is available April 21 (Canada/USA), April 24 (Aust/EU) and April 27 (UK).

Tom Hutchins’ landlord will evict him if they find his pet snake - he writes for wetalkyoudie.tv