New Noise Magazine is pleased to be bringing forth the exclusive premiere of ‘DETHHEADS U.S.A.’ by Danny Denial. The visionary artist expands the music project into a thrilling rock opera styled production masterpiece, which can be viewed below. The visual/mini-film features 5 of the 8 tracks from the LP and again co-stars Eva Walker of The Black Tones, Jake McCaffray of Fruit Juice and Dark Smith drummer Nozomi Momo. This terror driven, socially aware creation contains five of the eight tracks that will be on the upcoming record, Dead Like Me.
“I was in a creative and emotional black hole after the first record, which I thought for a while would be my only record. The original lineup for our live outfit went our different ways after Beard and I focused on a few other projects for a while – a feature film, my other band Dark Smith. But I had unfinished business with some of the Danny Denial work I’d been kicking around, and a desire to capture a sound I never felt I nailed with Goodbye. Ty Kennedy of Atomic Subculture and Virgo Sadness, whose last EP Raining On Paris I was a massive fan of, reached out about doing a record together and I immediately trusted him with it all. Dead Like Me has a grit and an urgency that truly sounds like the noise in my head, and I’m really happy with it.”
“The visual album ‘DETHHEADS U.S.A.’ came together very last-minute with Leo Ramos of Vanity Rules Productions, who helped me create this hybrid between a horror short and a punk opera. It’s about a fictional band comprised of Eva Walker (of The Black Tones) and Nozomi Momo (of Dark Smith and T-ROX) who play this small town dive bar that’s run by an extremist cult, led by Jake McCaffray (of Fruit Juice) and Cullen Cochran (of Rabble House. I love filmmaking as much as I love music, and the idea of telling a story of a QTPOC artist’s paranoia in a time of escalating patriarchal rage just felt right through these songs. And it’s very real — the weekend after we shot this, Nozomi and I were recording outside Washington for Dark Smith and got harassed by these angry, racist truckers. It’s scary and I think it’s very much something we’re always thinking about. As artists, black and white, we’re putting ourselves into precarious positions and as a second record/visual this is strongly a response to that.” – Danny Denial
Dead Like Me is the second full-length solo LP from Seattle-based Danny Denial, following 2017’s Goodbye. While its predecessor was a collaboration among various Seattle-based producers, Dead Like Me was recorded and mixed entirely with London-based Ty Kennedy of Virgo Sadness at his home studio in Enterprise, Alabama. The pair worked intensely over a four-day period to create a lo-fi, garage sound that captured the anxious and angry energy of the new lyrics, along with Alabama-based drummer John Oden.
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