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  • Dead Skeletons 'Dead Magick' (Reissue) Vinyl 2xLP

    Fuzz Club Records

    Dead Skeletons 'Dead Magick' (Reissue) Vinyl 2xLP

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    Double LP, 180g black vinyl, tip-on gatefold sleeve, printed inner-sleeves, remastered by James Plotkin. To celebrate the ten-year anniversary of ‘Dead Magick’, Fuzz Club Records are announcing a vinyl reissue of the debut album from Icelandic psychedelic art-rock project Dead Skeletons.

    In the decade since it was originally released on 11/11/11 via Anton Newcombe’s A Recordings label, ‘Dead Magick’ has come to be seen as one of this generation’s definitive works of neo-psychedelia and had an almost cult-like reverence attached to it. Tours around the UK, EU and USA, major international festival dates and critical acclaim soon followed the album’s release, and it also helped to catalyse a burgeoning underground psych scene to whom ‘Dead Magick’s occult sonic belligerence became a crucial and highly-lauded touchstone.

    A twelve-track masterclass in “transportative far-out guitar hymnals” (as described by The Quietus’ Luke Turner), the ‘Dead Magick’ double album was an exercise in spiritual rock’n’roll drones shaped by primitive fuzzed-out guitars, repetitive vocal mantras, distorted organs and crashing percussion.

    Inspired by bandleader Jón Sæmundur Auðarson’s own diagnosis with HIV, the driving philosophy behind Dead Skeletons (and the wider ‘DEAD’ concept that Jón, aka Nonni Dead, has been exploring since 2003) is defined by the ‘He who fears death cannot enjoy life’ chant heard on the album’s declarative opening track, ‘Dead Mantra’.

    The underground hit was the first song released by Dead Skeletons – comprising Jón, Henrik Björnsonn (Singapore Sling), Ryan Carlson and Aislinn Van Kriedt (Asteroid #4) – and laid out the band’s intentions from the off: to use music as a means to inspire people to celebrate and cherish life unshackled from fears and anxieties over their mortality.

    “I created the DEAD concept in 2003 as an idea to use art as a therapy to overcome the fear of death and to enjoy life to the fullest. I had been dealing with the HIV virus since 1994 and wanted to use my art skills to explore this idea further and spread positive messages to help other people in the same position as myself”, the Reykjavik-based artist recalls.

    The 2021 reissue on Fuzz Club Records comes on 180g black vinyl in a tip-on printed gatefold sleeve with printed inner-sleeves and remastered audio courtesy of James Plotkin.

    Tracklisting:
    1. Dead Mantra
    2. Kingdom of God
    3. Psychodead
    4. Get On The Train
    5. Dead Magick I
    6. Ask Seek Knock
    7. Ljósberinn
    8. Lifðu!/Live!
    9. When The Sun Comes Up
    10. Yama
    11. Dead Magick II
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  • Dead Skeletons 'Live In Berlin' - Cargo Records UK

    Fuzz Club Records

    Dead Skeletons 'Live In Berlin' Vinyl 2xLP - White/Red/Black/Splatter with Silkscreened D Side

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    Live In Berlin comes on double colored 180g vinyl with silkscreened D-side limited to 1000 copies.

    Dead Skeletons Live in Berlin, which will be released March 9th. Their first release in two years, the album captures a performance at Berlin's iconic SO36. This unique show, full of celebratory energy, marked the release of their double A side for 'Om Varja Sattva Hung/Dead Comet' in the birth place of their own label, Dead Monk Records. It also saw the club revived especially for this performance.

    To their fans, Dead Skeletons are more than a band, they are rock n roll spirit guides, exploring the depths of light and dark, life and death, and all the spaces in-between. Powered by their Dead Mantra' - 'He who fears death cannot enjoy life' - Dead Skeletons are a celebration of the self, on the same enlightening spiritual path first trod by free jazz experimentalists Albert Ayler and John Coltrane. The Berlin show captured on this record begins with calm, floating drones that could have been forged in the tranquillity of Iceland's glaciers.

    Then the skeletal guitar line of 'Om Varja Sattva Hung' slices in propelled by a relentless motoric rhythm. The driving, precise beats throb like German Krautrockers Neu! or La Dusseldorf. Although Dead Skeletons are in search of spiritual answers, they also rock.

    Like Buddhist Stooges, theirs is a raw and propulsive psych. They get down and dirty on 'Psycho Dead' with a sleazy bass line reminiscent of New York duo Suicide's classic 'Johnny', seeping with edge, danger and attitude.

    Tracklisting:
    1. Om Vajra Sattva Hung
    2. Om Mani Padme Hum
    3. Buddha Christ
    4. Kundalini Eyes
    5. Psycho Dead
    6. When The Sun
    7. Dead Comet
    8. Get on The Train
    9. Kingdom Of God
    10. Dead Mantra
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