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BOOTLEG: EXCLUSIVE A WILHELM SCREAM SONG, “BULLET PROOF TIGER”

In our never-ending quest to give you the best music available, we present the Revolver Bootleg series. Throughout each month, we’ll post cool, new, and often-exclusive tracks right here for you to hear before anyone else.

This installment is the premiere of A Wilhelm Scream’s “Bullet Proof Tiger,” off their upcoming self-titled 12-inch EP, due later this fall. Guitarist-vocalist Trevor Reilly fills us in on the song below.

REVOLVER What’s this song about?
TREVOR REILLY The song was originally inspired by an incident that occurred in my neighborhood years back when a teenage boy murdered his mom in the middle of the afternoon with a kitchen knife. As I was writing and researching, it morphed into a story about a family member fighting his demons and drug addiction, told from his perspective with hopefully a look up to the future with determined eyes…

Which part of it did you come up with first?
Mike Supina, our new guitarist, actually came up with the musical arrangement first, and we tinkered with it from there. It was the first thing Mike brought to the band alone, and that was inspiring in and of itself. I was originally gonna base the lyrics on the character McNulty from The Wire, incidentally, but that didn’t quite pan out, thankfully. [Laughs]

Was this an easy song to write?
The good ones are easy to write; they just flow and before you know it you're onto the next song already. “Bullet Proof Tiger” was no different, and the tuning on the song was new to the band, which opens up more possibilities for fun shit to go down

Why did you choose to include this song on your EP?
We needed a banger, and this is a banger. In addition to it being one of the very first and best this lineup has written together, it is a definite fucking banger.

What can we expect from your next full-length album?
Expect more progressive songs, some thrash, some sing-alongs, some solos, some wacky shit, some melody, basically some new Wilhelm bangers, son!

A Wilhelm Scream: "Bullet Proof Tiger"

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HAaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa

Submitted by Anonymous on Tue, 10/20/2009 - 13:30.

crazyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy

MEGASIKED!!!!!!!

Submitted by Anonymous on Sat, 10/24/2009 - 10:50.

MEGASIKED!!!!!!!

New Wilhelm!

Submitted by Anonymous on Tue, 10/20/2009 - 14:04.

Sounds pretty good! I like these fast tunes, but I also like their mixed-tempo hooky songs as well. Hope to hear both on their new releases.

Yes!

Submitted by Anonymous on Tue, 10/20/2009 - 14:36.

banger indeed.

Wilhelm Pwns

Submitted by Anonymous on Tue, 10/20/2009 - 15:55.

This song and EP is going to be so fucking epic! They have continually progressed over the years, and gotten better every step of the way. Can't wait for the new EP and then the album, this song shreds.

YESSSSSS So pumped

Submitted by Anonymous on Tue, 10/20/2009 - 16:03.

YESSSSSS So pumped

BPT

Submitted by Anonymous on Tue, 10/20/2009 - 17:18.

motherfucking awesome. classic already

I can hear Propagandhi all

Submitted by Anonymous on Tue, 10/20/2009 - 19:42.

I can hear Propagandhi all over this. Sweet

New shit

Submitted by Anonymous on Tue, 10/20/2009 - 20:43.

fuck ya the songs just get better and better

mike supina is seriously

Submitted by Anonymous on Tue, 10/20/2009 - 23:22.

mike supina is seriously insane.

not really

Submitted by Anonymous on Wed, 10/21/2009 - 17:26.

one guitar yes but personally hes one of the most humble individuals ive ever met

Mike is very humble. I'm

Submitted by Anonymous on Wed, 10/21/2009 - 22:37.

Mike is very humble. I'm lucky enough to say that I'm friends with him. His playing always amazes me.

fuckin epic!

Submitted by Anonymous on Wed, 10/21/2009 - 00:55.

fuckin epic!

Their song structures are

Submitted by Anonymous on Wed, 10/21/2009 - 12:49.

Their song structures are just amazing...

holy fuck! i can't wait to

Submitted by Anonymous on Wed, 10/21/2009 - 13:57.

holy fuck! i can't wait to get my hands on this!

What A Feat!!

Submitted by Anonymous on Wed, 10/21/2009 - 15:04.

This is seriously epic! Great work from Supina!

Come back to SF!

Submitted by Anonymous on Wed, 10/21/2009 - 15:07.

And play this!!! Sick!

PORCO DIO!!!!!

Submitted by Anonymous on Wed, 10/21/2009 - 15:11.

PORCO DIO!!!!!

Very good song! Greetings

Submitted by Anonymous on Wed, 10/21/2009 - 16:05.

Very good song! Greetings from Hungary!

new aws

Submitted by Anonymous on Wed, 10/21/2009 - 17:08.

I got three unreleased tracks from when they demo'd for career suicide. heard two new ones on Monday here in AZ "Austrailia" and "Skid Rock" i was the only person singing along to Skid Rock which is on the EP. PROMISES -A personal friend of AWS