HEATHEN APOSTLES ft Chopper from The Cramps

Born of the voices of past lives and baptized in the dust bowl dirt, the Gothic Americana music of the ***Heathen Apostles*** (Mather Louth \[Radio Noir\], Chopper Franklin \[The Cramps, Nick Curran & the Lowlifes\], Thomas Lorioux \[Kings of Nuthin’\] and Luis Mascaro) harkens back to a bygone chapter of American history. Using contrasting influences such as Bauhaus, Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds and The Pogues along with Howlin’ Wolf, Loretta Lynn (the band covers her classic Fist City) and Bessie Smith, the Heathen Apostles have created a style of music that at once conjures both angels and demons, and will enlighten a darkened soul.

Gothic Americana is a genre that is fast taking hold around the world, in that it combines the sub-genres of gothic country & bluegrass, dark blues, murderfolk and depression-era jazz. The Heathen Apostles are amongst the first to inject all four into their incendiary music.

***Howlin Anton Bleak*** Solo project of the frontman of seminal death.blues band Bleak, taking you on a journey into Stranger Country.

***Weird Creature -*** 3 piece with guitar/vox, upright bass, and drums. File them in the creepshow-gothic-americana-50s-beatnik section if you can find it. Drawing from such artists as Link Wray, Tom Waits, Elvis, David Lynch, Suicide, Timber Timbre maybe even sometimes the Doors. They take blues and jazz/blues forms and try to twist them into new contexts with some indie songwriting sensibility - and have some fun with it along the way.

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