About Roger J. Beaujard

I am Roger J. Beaujard, and this site is the cleaner, meaner, more useful version of the mess I have been leaving on the internet for years.

Most people who know my name probably know it through Mortician, where I have spent a large chunk of my life making horror-sample-driven death metal with guitars tuned somewhere near the earth’s core and drum programming that refuses to apologize. Mortician gave me a place in the underground metal world, a lifetime of stories, and a permanent inability to hear a chainsaw without thinking it might need a riff.

But Mortician is only part of the machine. I grew up in New York, came up through the underground metal scene, messed with guitars, drums, drum machines, tape recorders, computers, printing, layouts, recording gear, and whatever else let me make something without waiting around for permission. Somewhere between New York, the Poconos, and Las Vegas, the same pattern kept repeating: if I needed a thing and it did not exist, I tried to build the thing.

Primitive Recordings became the label, mail-order operation, retail shop, merch hub, and business backbone for most of what I do. Music never really stopped either. I have played, recorded, programmed, mixed, mastered, designed, screamed, filled in, helped out, or otherwise made a mess on a lot of things over the years.

Now I am building the broader Primitive ecosystem: music, retail, media, filmmaking, private events, archives, interviews, podcasts, and whatever strange IP survives the stress test.

This website is the map. The old articles are staying. The movie reviews are staying and getting a proper rating system. The music credits are getting cleaned up without erasing anything. The projects are getting organized so the next time I say “I should do something with that,” there is already a place for it.

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