Product Code: WET30281790
Original price was: $44.00.$26.40Current price is: $26.40.Vinyl reissue of the debut album from Icelandic art-rock project Dead Skeletons. Originally released on 11/11/11 via Anton Newcombes A Recordings label, Dead Magick has come to be seen as one of this generations definitive neo-psychedelic works and had an almost cultlike reverence attached to it. Tours around the UK, EU and USA, major international festival dates and critical acclaim soon followed the albums release, and it also helped to catalyse a burgeoning underground psych scene to whom Dead Magicks occult sonic belligerence became a crucial and highly-lauded touchstone. A twelve-track masterclass in transportative far-out guitar hymnals (The Quietus) and "a psychedelic battle cry" (The Guardian), the Dead Magick double album was an exercise in spiritual rocknroll drones shaped by primitive fuzzed-out guitars, repetitive vocal mantras, distorted organs and crashing percussion. Inspired by bandleader Jn Smundur Auarsons diagnosis with HIV, the driving philosophy behind Dead Skeletons (and the wider DEAD concept that Jn, aka Nonni Dead, has been exploring since 2003) is defined by the He who fears death cannot enjoy life chant heard on the albums declarative opening track, Dead Mantra. The underground hit was the first song released by Dead Skeletons comprising Jn, Henrik Bjrnsonn (Singapore Sling), Ryan Carlson and Aislinn Van Kriedt (Asteroid #4) and laid out the bands intentions from the off: to use music as a means to inspire people to celebrate and cherish life unshackled from fears and anxieties over their mortality. I created the DEAD concept in 2003 as an idea to use art as a therapy to overcome the fear of death and to enjoy life to the fullest. I had been dealing with the HIV virus since 1994 and wanted to use my art skills to explore this idea further and spread positive messages to help other people in the same position as myself, the Reykjavik-based artist recalls.
Dead Magick Part One
A1 Dead Mantra
A2 Om Mani Peme Hung
A3 Kingdom Of God
B1 Psychodead
B2 Get On The Train
B3 Dead Magick I
Dead Magick Part Two
C1 Ask Seek Knock
C2 Ljsberinn
C3 Lifu! /Live!
D1 When The Sun Comes Up
D2 Yama
D3 Dead Magick Ii
