There’s a new breed of dark, raw, mind-blowing psych-rock crawling from the South, and its name is Dead Confederate. The Georgia group conjured the haunting sound of their debut full-length album WRECKING BALL the old-fashioned way: by making it in the tiny concrete box of a studio in Austin, Texas, where the sound effects for The Texas Chainsaw Massacre were recorded. “We’re kind of like a Jackson Pollock painting,” explains singer/guitarist Hardy Morris, 28. “Brutally honest. There isn’t some big twist or turn, it just lays it all out there. Immediate, no frills, primal, emotional.”
Dead Confederate – Morris, bassist Brantley Senn, guitarist Walker Howle, keyboardist John Watkins, and drummer Jason Scarboro – first bonded over Pink Floyd and Black Sabbath (”stoner shit,” as Morris puts it) when they attended high school together in Augusta, Georgia. After keeping a band loosely together throughout college, the five-piece got serious when they were faced with the prospect of finding careers outside of music. After the small-town crew moved to Atlanta, “We were all kind of huddled together in this little house in the big city,” Morris recalls, “Things took a turn and Brantley and I started writing serious personal stuff. We weren’t just playing anymore, we were really writing and searching.” Dead Confederate was born.
Follow the band and hear the music at myspace.com/deadconfederate
