Dead Unicorn: Horny Devils
by Peter Aaron
Dead Unicorn has also taken its dark and ear-splitting concept to the road, playing South by Southwest last year and hitting house-party gigs (most of them in basements) with its “big sister band,” Warwick’s Casket Architects, on the way down to the Texas festival and back up. The deadly duo hopes to hit the open highways again in the future but for now is playing it close to home, doing local and regional dates on weekends and writing material for Yellowstone Supervolcano’s forthcoming follow-up, Global Thermonuclear War. (The group also has a 7” due out this summer and a track on a soon-to-released compilation benefiting the West Memphis 3’s legal defense fund.)
“The stuff we write songs about is in the back of everyone’s minds, even though most people don’t like to talk about it,” says Shaw. “We just bring it to the forefront. To us, it’s not depressing to talk about it. It’s like this: If you thought you were going to die tomorrow, what would you do today? By focusing on dying, we want to make people get into living.”
Dead Unicorn will play with the Casket Architects and
Tiger Flowers at the Rug Room in New Paltz on April 17.
www.deadunicorn.com.
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