Athens, Georgia's mulifarious psychedelic roadwarriors Dark Meat have geared up for another get-go of pillage-and-freakout in the name of their newest offering, Truce Opium. A long period of line-up changes, label complications and heavy touring across North America and Europe has focused the band into a diamond-hard and transformative experience: they've trimmed their lineup to a highly-effective and barely-anemic nine piece and, in the process, have organically developed an intense and diverse inst   [ read more ]

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Imagine the Stooges meeting Crazy Horse with killer marching band horns, wailing gospel backing vocals, ripping Eddie Hazel guitar leads, and Albert Ayler free jazz freakouts. Athens' Dark Meat, a 17-piece hippie rock fest featuring double drums, boundless guitars, massive horns, strings, and ensemble voices, has been giving earth-shaking performances all over the south for the last three years. This expanded digipak CD features exclusive, never before released bonus material.

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Dark Meat are an Athens ensemble that can rock, and sway, and clap they hands to the beat in an area large enough for them to do it in. Singer/guitarist Jim McHugh and bassist Ben Clack moved to Athens from North Carolina two years ago and met guitarist Kris (Subversivo), and drummer Forrest (formerly of Carrie Nations) while working together at a restaurant downtown. When second drummer Spirit Bird left town, his chair was filled by cymbal master Jason Robira. The group features a powerful backing vocal en   [ read more ]

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