As we started Buffalo Week, we thought we had a pretty good representation of Buffalo music.
We forgot one huge name, featured in the movie Ace Venture: Pet Detective. So, we're including Cannibal Corpse, death metal pioneers from Buffalo, today.
More than thirty years into their career, Cannibal Corpse is still making music, with a new album dropping in April. However, we invite you today to enjoy a classic song by the band.
This song deserves its own post and an explanation.
The Scajaquada Expressway is Route 198, a highway that runs through Buffalo, NY. Buffalo, as you know, is known for its snow (although Rochester and Syracuse both regularly get more, but DO NOT GET ME STARTED). Let's just say that The Scajaquada is not a place you want to be during a blizzard. During the late 1980s, when this song was released, it wasn't a safe highway.
There's all sorts of Buffalo references in this song. All sorts of Buffalo-area schools that you would have heard on a late-1980s school closings announcement on the radio are referenced, as are several popular news personalities from that period.
Oh, one more thing. Thanks to another lawsuit, when the song was reissued as part of their 1993 album Cereal Killer, they had to spell it "Skajaquada", but I refuse. That's not its name. I also preserved the band's original name here.
