Akron Heavy Metal Band's Album Contains Soil From Home Of Accused Killer

December 21, 2010

According to Fox 8 News, Akron, Ohio-based metal band FISTULA has released a controversial album that is based on the case of reputed serial killer Anthony Sowell. The 51-year-old Cleveland man is charged with the aggravated murder of the 11 women and attacks on three others and faces the death penalty if convicted. He has pleaded not guilty and is scheduled to go on trial February 14. The CD features Sowell's picture superimposed on the forehead of a goat, and songs like "Ohio Death Toll Rising" and "So Far Sowell So What". About 100 fans who bought a copy of "Goat" received a bonus gift — an evidence baggie containing soil reportedly from the front yard of the house where the remains of 11 women were found last year.

"I think it's cruel, the whole thing is cruel," Inez Fortson, whose 31-year-old daughter Telacia was one of eleven women allegedly kidnapped and murdered by Sowell, told Fox 8 News.

FISTULA guitarist and songwriter Corey Bing told The Plain Dealer that the concept for the album came about from his reactions to the first images he saw of Sowell — mug shots and footage of sheriff's deputies escorting him into a courtroom.

"His eyes just looked black, like a demon," Bing said. "And I don't believe in stuff like that, but this dude looked evil to me, like he was seriously jacked up or possessed."

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