We Sing of Only Blood or Love

On Hallows Eve 2006, in Houma, Louisiana, Dax hooked up with Matt Sweeney (Chavez, Johnny Cash, Superwolf, etc.), who would produce and play a lot of guitar on what would become We Sing Of Only Blood Or Love - but not just yet. Sweeney broke his hand just as those early November sessions at New Orleans' Piety Studios were to begin, resulting in a sad stretch of self-medicated producing with limited musical input. The two reconvened in January 2007 in New York, for a creative spurt spurred by Dax taking in a rehearsal of Sweeney's favorite band, Endless Boogie. Deeming it "a fucking religious experience," Dax promptly asked the band's drummer Endless Andy MacLeod (White Magic, Bright Black) to play on the record. Winter found Dax, Sweeney and Endless Andy on NYC's Lower East Side arranging, and then in Brooklyn recording a bunch of songs at The Rare Book Room with owner/operator Nicolas Vernhes.

All told, We Sing Of Only Blood Or Love is Dax Riggs stepping out as a markedly grown up deadboy--a work imbued with newfound vitality, intensity and maturity, yet one that still begs anyone's best guess as to where things go from here. deadboy is undead, long live Dax Riggs. We hope.