Artist: Dead Meadow
Genre(s):
Rock
Other
Discography:
Feathers
Year: 2005
Tracks: 10
Shivering King and Others
Year: 2003
Tracks: 12
Howls from the Hills
Year: 2001
Tracks: 8
Dead Meadow
Year: 2001
Tracks: 8
Wing Ding
Year:
Tracks: 4
Dead Meadow's singular marriage of Sabbath riffs, languorous layers of guitars bull blissfulness, and vocalist Jason Simon's high-pitched melodic croon sustain wond over both psychedelic pop/rock and stoner-rock fans likewise. Although the band's members met patch attending all-ages punk shows in and around Washington D.C.'s punk/indie scene, the trio's sound draws more than of their sound from such classic rock legends as Pink Floyd and Black Sabbath. The trio formed in the diminish of 1998 out the ashes of local indie rock bands The Impossible Five and Coulour by singer-guitarist Jason Simon, bassist Steve Kille, and drummer Mark Laughlin. The three members pose out to fuse their love of early 70's difficult rock and 60's psychedelia with their love of fantasy and horror writers J.R.R. Tolkien and H.P. Lovecraft.
They released their six-song debut album in 1999 on Fugazi bassist Joe Lally's Tolotta Records and a joint vinyl release on D.C. indie label Planaria Records. Then in 2001 the band released its arcsecond and third albums, Howls from The Hills and Dead Meadow, on Tollotta Records. In a sanely inadequate period the D.C. trio received offers to tour of duty with everyone from local D.C. flower people The Make-Up to seedy psychedelic bikers Brian Jonestown Massacre; eventually, they landed the opening slot for high profile indie veterans Guided by Voices. The mathematical group was besides invited to record live for long clip newspaper clipping edge British wireless personality John Peel for BBC Radio One. Got Live If You Want It! arrived in 2002; that year, the ring missed Laughlin and found a unexampled drummer in Stephen McCarty. The band touched to Matador for 2003's breakthrough Shivering King and Others. Cory Shane coupled the ring in meter for 2005's Feathers.
