Yeah, we remember when John Lydon ranted and raved about being the Antichrist-- and then went on to serve as a shill for Mountain Dew in an effort to proveit. Well, there's a new, far more convincing entrant in the spawn-of-Satanstakes, and his name is Bobby Conn. The Chicago-based ranter-who 's beenknown to bill himself as "Judeo-Christian Edutainer" in order to make hisbizarro-world ravings more palatable to, well, someone-has decided toreveal his true identity in the form of a new album entitled RiseUp.

In a hypothesis that makes perfect sense to us (which is kind of scary initself), Conn details how he figured out his destiny by discovering that hisbirthday dovetails with the coming millennium much as Christ's did with thedawning of the Christian Era. He also finds time to curry favor with right-wing nutcases by noting that the United Nations is under the control ofBeelzebub himself, but that's another story, one you can decipher for yourselfin the grooves of Rise Up.

DAVID SPRAGUE