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  Severed heads, severed head props, halloween decorations, and haunted house props by Gore Galore
Shelly is a life-size female severed head with hair.
Your choice of severed head on a rope handle, with gross danglies.
Your choice of severed head skewered on a rusty meathook with gross danglies.
www.gore-galore.com /severed_heads.htm   (193 words)

  
 Severed Heads - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Severed Heads is an Australian electronic music group based and founded in Sydney in 1979 (see 1979 in music) as Mr.
Early Severed Heads music was characterised by the use of tape loops, noisy arrangements of synthesizers, and other dissonant sound sources, putting Severed Heads in the general category of industrial music.
Nettwerk severed its relations with Ellard in the early 1990s, leaving the band adrift in the marketplace.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Severed_Heads   (624 words)

  
 Article: Guillotines and Body Transplants: the Severed Head in Fact and Fiction, by Fred Bush
Heads, Siculus tells us, were quite valuable: chieftains would brag about how much they had been offered for their heads, or how much they paid for them, and some were literally worth their weight in gold.
White's original transplanted heads were unable to achieve any control over the rest of their bodies, but a newer round of experiments, performed in 1997, have been able to establish respiration within the brains and their adopted bodies, keeping them alive for a lengthy period of time.
White's head transplants have provoked outcry and shock from animal-rights activists and bioethicists, which have been used by supporters as evidence that the environmental movement is bankrupt and anti-progress.
www.strangehorizons.com /2002/20020930/severed_head.shtml   (2772 words)

  
 Police find 9 severed heads in Iraq - Boston.com
The boxes containing the heads -- all from men -- were discovered by a highway in the village of Hadid near Baqouba, a mixed Shiite-Sunni Arab city 35 miles northeast of Baghdad that has seen a recent rise in sectarian violence.
The heads were transferred to the city morgue and an investigation was under way, according to the Joint Cooperation Center, which is run by Iraqi and U.S. forces.
Iraqi police also found eight severed heads in the village on Saturday, with a note indicating at least one of those men had been killed in retaliation for the slaying of four Shiite doctors and a former governor during the administration of former Prime Minister Ayad Allawi.
www.boston.com /news/world/middleeast/articles/2006/06/06/police_find_9_severed_heads_in_iraq?mode=PF   (238 words)

  
 RTE News - Nine severed heads found in Baquba
Nine severed heads have been found wrapped in plastic bags and left in a fruit box on a roadside near Baquba in Iraq.
Police said some of the heads were blindfolded and already decomposing, suggesting that the killings had taken place within recent days.
The heads were found in an area close to where police made a similar discovery three days ago.
www.rte.ie /news/2006/0606/iraq.html   (245 words)

  
 AP Wire | 10/21/2006 | Mexico gangs displaying severed heads   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
They are putting their severed heads on public display.
Many in Michoacan's mountains and colonial cities are doing just that: They are tightlipped, their newspapers are censoring themselves and in one town, 18 out of 32 police officers quit saying they had received death threats from drug smugglers.
In another, a pair of heads were planted in front of a car dealership in Zitacuaro, a town best known until now as a nesting ground for monarch butterflies.
www.kansascity.com /mld/kansascity/15816613.htm   (803 words)

  
 cbs4denver.com - Police Find 9 Severed Heads In Iraq
The boxes containing the heads — all from men — were discovered by a highway in the village of Hadid near Baqouba, a mixed Shiite-Sunni Arab city 35 miles northeast of Baghdad that has seen a recent rise in sectarian violence.
The heads were transferred to the city morgue and an investigation was under way, according to the Joint Cooperation Center, which is run by Iraqi and U.S. forces.
Iraqi police also found eight severed heads in the village on Saturday, with a note indicating at least one of those men had been killed in retaliation for the slaying of four Shiite doctors and a former governor during the administration of former Prime Minister Ayad Allawi.
cbs4denver.com /national/topstories_story_157073914.html   (229 words)

  
 Severed Heads
His head, cut off soon after death, was taken away by Dr. Frederick Weedon, who used it, among other things, as a scare piece to frighten his children.
After the execution, Ampudia ordered that Sentmanat's head be cut off and displayed in public, as a warning to all rebels.
When he tried his hand at severity, what came out was an action by which locals professed to be shocked.
www.sonic.net /~buscador/heads.htm   (1138 words)

  
 MuggleNet | The Two-Way Mirror #25 - Caput Draconis - By Daniela Teo.
This contradicts Snape's statement that if Harry's head is in some place, so is the rest of him, or rather, it acts as a bridge between the image of the disembodied head in the conversation with Snape and Harry's relationship with Voldemort.
The wig and tiara draw attention to the head, and the fact that we have a bust draws attention symbolically to the act of decapitation, as a bust is the head and part of the upper body cut from the rest.
I guess we'll find out in the seventh book if all these severed heads are just a lingering obsession with the guillotine that Rowling has kept from her French days, or if it's part of a bigger, more dramatic, and possibly gruesome plan...
www.mugglenet.com /editorials/thetwowaymirror/ttwm25.shtml   (3792 words)

  
 DIG Radio - Severed Heads Vs The Illustrated Family Doctor
At first it seemed that Severed Heads wanted to scare small children with their solid slabs of industrial flavoured music, then they wanted to take over the world's dancefloors with thundering bass lines and songs about big cars and fleas, and then they went all quiet...
For the past few years, Tom Ellard (the man who is Severed Heads these days), has been working on a music server for offices - a kind of emotional soundtrack for your day.
Depending on your point of view that could be seen as hell or nirvana, but in a nice piece of serendipity, it turned out to be the perfect basis for the soundtrack to a new Australian film called The Illustrated Family Doctor.
www.abc.net.au /dig/stories/s1321221.htm   (227 words)

  
 ISN Security Watch - Severed heads found in Iraq   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
CNN reports that the severed heads were found wrapped in fl plastic bags in fruit boxes in Hadid, 13km to the west of Baquba.
It was the second such discovery in the area in recent days after the heads of seven cousins and a Sunni Arab imam were found on a roadside near Baquba on Saturday.
Analysts say that it is vital that al-Maliki quickly provides heads for the two ministries if the government is to begin combating widespread violence.
www.isn.ethz.ch /news/sw/details.cfm?ID=16100   (465 words)

  
 :: MVRemix Interviews - Severed Heads ::
Severed Heads creates When people think of 'Industrial' music, they think of angry middle-aged men with spikes on their backs in the middle of a mosh pit (doing that stomp-dance where they pound the air).
Severed Heads creates somewhat unclassifiable music that can still be categorized to certain genres.
To fully experience Severed Heads, both eyes and ears were open.
www.mvremix.com /urban/interviews/severed_heads.shtml   (1277 words)

  
 Gulfnews: Severed heads on the dance floor
Next to the heads was a note written on a piece of cardboard reading: "The family doesn't kill for money.
But authorities had not yet determined if his head was among the five, the newspapers reported.
In the past few months, heads have also been found in other states plagued by drug violence, including the border states of Baja California and Nuevo Leon.
www.gulfnews.com /world/Mexico/10065825.html   (482 words)

  
 Severed Heads
Rather than collapse inward towards the techno-trance-gabber-breakbeat-industrial conveyor belt, Severed Heads have maintained an approach that is, on the surface, naive, complete with lyrics.
Perhaps with a new audience being reared on rave-style techno, Severed Heads are in danger of becoming "retro" and appearing as headline acts alongside the "best of the Eighties", alternatively, a new following may emerge buoyed by such Triple J (re-)exposure.
More likely Severed Heads will continue to refuse to follow trends in search of a quick buck and find new waters.
www.snarl.org /texts/features/severed.htm   (1335 words)

  
 Severed Heads   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
Early Severed Heads music was characterised by the use of tape loops, noisy arrangements of synthesizers, and other dissonant sound sources, putting Severed Heads in the general category of industrial music.
After several releases in that vein, Severed Heads began incorporating various popular music tropes, such as a consistent 4/4 rhythm, strong melodic lines, and resolving chord arrangements.
Both Volition and Decibel soon folded, and once again, Severed Heads were unaligned with the traditional music industry, and didn't fully own the rights to their music.
www.artistopia.com /severed-heads   (609 words)

  
 Severed Heads
Severed Heads wasn't keeping them clothed and fed and they had to find things that would.
These are things that keep me happy, when Severed Heads gets asked to do ten more variants on Dead Eyes Opened.
Severed Heads is kind of a gruesome sounding name - do you ever find that people unfamiliar with the band are surprised when they hear/see you and discover you're not a scary band?
www.chaoscontrol.com /current/heads/headstext.php   (1111 words)

  
 Minuteman National Blog - Mexico gangs displaying severed heads
They are putting their severed heads on public display.
Many in Michoacan's mountains and colonial cities are doing just that: They are tightlipped, their newspapers are censoring themselves and in one town, 18 out of 32 police officers quit saying they had received death threats from drug smugglers.
In another, a pair of heads were planted in front of a car dealership in Zitacuaro, a town best known until now as a nesting ground for monarch butterflies.
minutemanhq.com /b2/index.php/national/2006/10/22/mexico_gangs_displaying_severed_heads   (414 words)

  
 BBC NEWS | Americas | Severed heads found in Acapulco
Two severed heads have been found in the Mexican resort town of Acapulco, the latest in what police suspect is a brutal round of drug-related killings.
The latest discoveries bring to six the numbers of severed heads found in the Pacific coast city during 2006.
The heads were found outside the Guerrero state finance department, where the heads of two police officers were found in April.
news.bbc.co.uk /2/hi/americas/5135562.stm   (292 words)

  
 REVIEW: Severed Heads – “Op1.2”
And there are still other parts that are the familiarly hypnotic mix of found sounds and gleefully psychedelic loops that careen across your head with reckless abandon.
The odd thing about Severed Heads is that, for a band most people have never heard of, they're...everywhere.
I was travelling up through rural Alabama, on the way from New Orleans to Chicago, and had stopped for fuel and food reasonably late at night in some middle-of-nowhere place where what passed for civilisation had clustered round the petrol-station.
www.legendsmagazine.net /139/severh.htm   (703 words)

  
 Severed Heads Discography: Introduction
The electronic music group Severed Heads is now almost synonymous with Tom Ellard, its only current member and mainstay of the band throughout a number of line-up changes over the years.
Severed Heads arose out of "Mr and Mrs No Smoking Sign" a group formed by Richard Fielding and Andrew Wright in 1979, but which was joined by Tom Ellard at the end of that year.
For a detailed and reliable history of Severed Heads, see Bernie Maier's article on the LTM Records site.
www.severed-heads.co.uk /discography/introduction.html   (145 words)

  
 BBC NEWS | Middle East | More severed heads found in Iraq
Police in Iraq have found nine severed heads, wrapped in plastic bags and left in a fruit box by the side of a road.
The heads were found near Baquba, north of Baghdad, where police made a similar discovery three days ago.
Some of the heads discovered in Baquba were blindfolded and already decomposing, suggesting that the killings had taken place a few days before, police said.
news.bbc.co.uk /2/hi/middle_east/5052144.stm   (590 words)

  
 American Daughter Media Center -- Severed Heads
They are sadists who lust after the power to hold other human beings in their grasp, and dismember them for pleasure.
They smile as they hold the severed heads of their victims, blood still dripping from the gaping necks, while their comrades take a pictures of them with their trophies.
They describe the fanatics who commit these atrocities as "freedom fighters" or "insurgents." They prattle on about the possible embarrassment of nude prisoners or the alleged desecration of a holy book while innocents are having their heads hacked off slowly with a dull knife.
www.americandaughter.com /arch_20050521sever.html   (426 words)

  
 Nine severed heads found near Baghdad - Breaking News - World - Breaking News
Nine severed heads were found in the latest atrocity in a volatile area north of Baghdad, police said, as Iraqi leaders faced a crisis over filling key security jobs critical to ending rampant bloodshed.
Police in the city of Baquba, 65km north of the capital, said the heads were discovered in plastic bags in its northern al-Hadid district.
Thoaban Abdul Kathim, of the western al-Jihad district, was shot dead along with an aide and his driver while they were heading to their office, they said.
www.theage.com.au /news/World/Nine-severed-heads-found-near-Baghdad/2006/06/06/1149359739178.html   (558 words)

  
 Interview: Severed Heads
Featuring Severed Heads founder Tom Ellard (TE), recorded by phone from his house in Sydney, Australia.
So we put out four records of that one, the first one was the first Severed Heads full album, and then one by a band called Hiroshima Chair, and one by a band called Negative Reaction, and one by the Slugfuckers.
JR: The only 1988 release on the CD is "Greater Reward", which is the first Severed Heads single to make the Top 20 of the Billboard chart in America.
kzsu.stanford.edu /eklein/intervw/sevheads.html   (3969 words)

  
 Police protect 'severed heads' Mozart opera | NEWS.com.au   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
There was a mixed reaction to the controversial scene itself, which lasted for just over a minute and came at the very end of the opera after the music finished.
There followed several calls of "Boo!" answered with shouts of "Bravo!" and then resounding applause for the singers and musicians at the end.
The scene with the severed heads is the invention of production director Hans Neuenfels, and appeared in the show when it was first staged in 2003.
www.news.com.au /story/0,23599,20951056-401,00.html   (630 words)

  
 Severed Heads
In these pages you will find the Severed Heads discography and lots of other information (see the list of sections below) about this long-running electronic music group.
However, you should be sure to visit the 100% official site at sevcom.com for the latest news.
Established in 1993 and continually updated, this is the official discography, endorsed by Severed Heads.
www.severed-heads.co.uk   (221 words)

  
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Found Tom Ellard (Severed Heads) posting some stuff on youtube.
That led me to sevcom.com where he's selling new and old stuff through a shareware model.
I remember the time Rage decided to play all the Severed Heads videos in cronological order.
www.bloglines.com /blog/amplifier?id=153   (153 words)

  
 SEVERED HEADS - Illustrated Family Doctor Ost - Inertia - Australian home of independent music available on CD, vinyl & ...
SEVERED HEADS - Illustrated Family Doctor Ost - Inertia - Australian home of independent music available on CD, vinyl & mp3.
> Severed Heads are one of the world\'s longest serving electronic music outfits - spanning the late 70\'s to now.
Severed Heads have a unique Australian musical style, referenced by bands as diverse as ORBITAL and NINE INCH NAILS.
www.inertia-music.com /catalogue/33432/Severed_Heads/Illustrated_Family_Doctor_Ost   (320 words)

  
 Severed heads shock burglars | | The Australian
BURGLARS in Vienna opted for a speedy getaway after they found eight severed human heads when breaking into the basement of a block of flats, Austrian police said overnight.
A dentist had stored the mummified heads, which he used for research, in a chest in the basement.
"The burglars were looking for loot when they discovered the heads," said a spokeswoman for Austrian police.
www.theaustralian.news.com.au /story/0,20867,20462450-1702,00.html   (141 words)

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