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Dark Meat
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Out of 2 votes - Similar Artists: Wolf & Cub, Panthers, Black Mountain, Buffalo Killers, the Brought Low
Out of 2 votes
- Location: Athens, Georgia, United States
- Genre: Alternative/Punk » Neo-Psychedelia
Editor's review
Their collective is more collective-like than your collective. In an indie landscape now full of such outfits, Georgia commune members Dark Meat make the many-membered thing mean something, issuing a controlled chaos of bellowing horns, unkempt drums, and haunting vocal yawps.
Biography
Vice Records' newest edition, Dark Meat, a 17-piece psychedelic rock collective from Athens, Georgia sound like the Stooges meets Crazy Horse meets Albert Ayler -- double drums, shredding guitars, jazz bursts, gospel vocals and marching band horns! Dark Meat lives together, eats together and makes music together, the true meaning of collective - several members live in Orange Twin, a 100-acre sustainable-living eco-village, where members farm, do bio-diesel conversion and host shows at their amphitheater. For three years, Dark Meat has thrilled crowds with earth-shaking, hallelujah-roaring performances throughout the South. Now, Vice Records is ready to let a true Southern gem shine.
Dark Meat's past and current lineup include members from Of Montreal, Elf Power, The Instruments, We Versus Shark, Gnarls Barkley and more.
Dark Meat's Universal Indians, originally released on Orange Twin Records, is to be given its first wide release by Vice Records with three unheard bonus tracks ("One More Trip" and "Three Eyes Open" both recorded live in Joshua Tree National Park, and "Universal Indians," an Albert Ayler tribute). Universal Indians - Expanded Edition will be released on CD April 8 and LP April 22.
Dark Meat's massive 66 show, 50 date spring tour - in a bright green, 35-foot 1972 GMC coach tour bus - kicks off at SXSW with tour dates running through the end of May!
