Collapsing Lungs / L.U.N.G.S. Untitled Documentary

Long before KORN, Limp Bizkit and Linkin Park made it big, the members of South Florida’s Collapsing Lungs were making music history by combining metal, industrial, hard core and hip hop in a time when leftover 80’s hair bands and budding alternative rockers were dominating the charts.  This documentary will focus on the trials and tribulations of a band struggling to make it.

Signed to Atlantic Records in 1994, the band released an EP entitled Colorblind and made waves on MTV’s Headbanger’s Ball with a video for the rap/metal anthem “Crackerjack.” Not long after, their lead vocalist, Brian Tutunick (a.k.a. Olivia Newton Bundy), the original bass player from Marilyn Manson, left the 7-piece group and after a few other member changes, the remaining members formed L.U.N.G.S. (Losers Usually Never Get Signed) and in 1995 released the full length Better Class of Losers on Pavement/Zoo/BMG records.

While touring with such acts as Smashing Pumpkins, House of Pain, Cypress Hill, Ice Cube, Biohazard and a very, very young Limp Bizkit (who opened for them), brought the band major notoriety, the lack of promotion and tour support on behalf of the label would eventually lead to the group’s demise. Cut to nearly a decade since their final performance, all Collapsing members (minus Kyle “Embryo” Hennrich, who no one could find) and a couple members from L.U.N.G.S., reunited for a one-night only engagement at the Culture Room in Fort Lauderdale. Six hundred people showed up and the show went off flawless. The band had such a great time that they all said they’d love to do it again. Since then, keyboardist Chris Nicholas has been slowly working on a documentary about the music industry and is using the experiences of Collapsing Lungs and L.U.N.G.S. to take us through the journey of the film. Below is a short video clip to give you an idea.