David Brom
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David Brom (born October 3, 1971) killed his parents, brother and sister with an axe when he was sixteen in February 1988 in Rochester, Minnesota. A member of a Catholic family, he had a fight with his father over the songs he listened to, which possibly resulted in the deed.
In 1989 Brom was sentenced to life in prison. He will not be eligible for parole until 2041. [1]
When their 1987 album, Escape From Noise, proved to be more successful than they expected, Negativland, a sound collage band, canceled the tour they were expected to do and released a fake press release stating the band would be placed in house arrest until investigations concluded as to whether "Christianity Is Stupid" (a song from the aforementioned album featuring Rev. Estus Pirkle's sermon in If Footmen Tire You, What Will Horses Do? mercilessly edited to make him repeat "Christianity is stupid! Communism is good!") was implicated in Brom's murders. The resulting media craze, stemming from journalists forgetting to fact-check, is lampooned in the title track of their 1989 album, Helter Stupid, whose insert also includes background information behind the band's prank.
Macabre's "David Brom Took an Axe," from their 1989 album, Gloom, is about the murders.
