There is a California myth about these cloaked spirit characters on the coast. Lost souls from another time and world who are trapped here and watch us for one reason or another, I guess depending on your view you are either lucky or not to run into one. John Steinbeck actually writes about them in one of his short stories, Flight.
Steven Kille, Bassist for
Dead Meadow alludes to the characters that the three band members portray in their upcoming film,
The Three Kings (Xemu Records). A stunning mix of fantasy film and multi-camera live concert footage,
The Three Kings overlays the transcendental experience of the band's music with film vignettes of
The Three Kings at work.
The package consists of an album that stands alone with live material and five new studio songs produced by Kille including That Old Temple mixed by Dave Schiffman and mastered by Howie Weinberg. Temple is the first single and has an accompanying video.
Dead Meadow have cradled the wide niche that resides between desert soaked 70's fuzz rock and sonically ambitious indie rock for over a decade. Members Steve Kille (bass), Jason Simon (vocals/guitar) and Stephen McCarty (drums) have released five studio albums, three of which were on Matador Records and two on Xemu Records. Also of note is that a Dead Meadow classic song was re-worked for the new Wolfmother album Cosmic Egg with the band's consent and collaboration. The Three Kings is a celebration of the band's lyrical mythos and is directed by Artificial Army who in the past bent reality with videos for the likes of The Sword, Mars Volta and Coheed & Cambria.
The Three Kings will be released March 23rd on Xemu Records. The band has announced an upcoming, headlining US tour beginning this March. The band will be taking along good friend Imaad Wasif for the series of dates which will encompass nearly two full months from the kickoff date.
The Three Kings Tracklist:
01. The Kingdom Come
02. Between Me and The Ground
03. Good Moanin'
04. At Her Open Door
05. The Whirlings
06. To The One (Streaming exclusively on Spin.com)
07. That Old Temple
08. The Narrows
09. Push Em To The Crux
10. Seven Seers
11. Greensky Greenlake
12. Beyond The Fields We know
13. Everything's Going On
14. Lady
15. Darlin'
16. Queen of All Returns
