Metal musician. Primitive Recordings lifer. Filmmaker. Media builder. Chaos professional.
This is the central hub for everything Roger J. Beaujard is building, resurrecting, recording, filming, selling, archiving, reviewing, ranting about, or threatening to finish someday.
Project Portal
The main map for current projects, old projects, side projects, and future things that need a place to land.
active/current
store, record label, mail order, retail shop, manufacturing/merch
Underground metal label, mail order, Las Vegas record/toy/movie/media shop, merch operation, and the business spine of the whole Primitive ecosystem.
active/current
private membership media space, workshops, recordings, Q&A, member media nights
A private Las Vegas membership media space for approved members, workshops, Q&As, interviews, recorded sessions, member media nights, and curated creative events.
coming back / maintenance
video platform, archive, interviews, death metal media
A future underground death metal video bunker: interviews, scene reports, band profiles, history, reviews, submitted footage, and archival chaos.
returning
podcast, interviews, old music/story archive
The Primitive Podcast is coming back: music, stories, old recordings, underground metal history, media nonsense, and conversations with people worth talking to.
active legacy / semi-active
band, death metal, legacy
The band most people know Roger from: horror-obsessed, sample-heavy, drum-machine death metal with a long ugly shadow.
active / needs renewed push
one-man band, death metal, grind
Roger’s long-running one-man death/grind project: vocals, guitars, bass, drum programming, old demos, reissues, unreleased riffs, and future damage.
active/in-motion
filmmaking, media production, IP engine, Pond5
The film and media wing: footage, weird experiments, shorts, production notes, Primitive Pictures, Pond5, DMTV crossovers, and the cult-cinema machine being assembled.
must preserve
writing, archive, blog, ramblings
Old internet Rog stays alive: rants, how-tos, music thoughts, reviews, weird science, programming, games, and dumb stuff that is now historical evidence.
must preserve and upgrade
reviews, movies, rating system
Movie reviews are not going away; they get a proper Rog rating system with filters, verdict badges, and horror/sci-fi-friendly scoring.
active/link hub
video, playlists, YouTube, Pond5
All the video junk: serious footage, YouTube nonsense, playlists, music videos, tutorials, Christmas parodies, Mortician, Primitive Brutality, and DMTV once it wakes up.
active/link hub
music platform, audio
Bandcamp links for Primitive Recordings music projects, old demos, parodies, and side project weirdness.
active transitioning / future expansion
custom flags, merch, printing, embroidery, future merch portal
Custom flags, back patches, shower curtains, oddball printed goods, small-run embroidery, and the future JollyRogerMerch.com evolution.
Latest Stuff
September 1, 2018
Well I finally decided to record myself rambling on about the old days, played some old tunes, and called it a podcast!
May 20, 2018
Last time I was babbling at you about “the scene” I emphasized the camaraderie among metalheads as being one of the highlights…
April 9, 2018
I know I haven’t posted here in forever, maybe longer. Apologies. No. Fuck that. You get nothing. I’m not obligated to do…
August 18, 2017
Of course I’ll be referring to the underground death metal scene as that’s the dysfunctional family of mutants I’ve been a part…
Archive
Every old written piece is preserved. The rebuild adds labels and better paths instead of pretending the old internet never happened.