DEAD MEADOW’s forthcoming THE THREE KINGS is a full-length, old-school concert movie with soundtrack. The film consists of live footage from a 2009 LA show intermingled with “vignettes that abstractly depict themes of corruption, destruction and rebirth”.

 

The band portrays the Three Kings who are silent watchers of their world. Click on the links below the photo to see the DC-based band’s THAT OLD TEMPLE video and a trailer taken from the film, and below that learn more about guitarist Jason and bassist Steve’s ORANGE backline.

 

 

 

Singer/guitarist Jason Simon (pictured above middle) uses an ORANGE AD140HTC and bassist Steve Kille (pictured right) plays through an ORANGE AD200B Mk3 with two 4×10 bass cabs PLUS a late 1990s ORANGE SUPER BASS REISSUE head and 4×12 and 2×12 guitar cabs loaded with bass speakers. Stephen McCarty is drummer.

 

 

 

 

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“There is a California myth about these cloaked spirit characters on the coast. Lost souls from another time and world who are trapped here and watch us for one reason or another, I guess depending on your view you are either lucky or not to run into one.  John Steinbeck actually writes about them in one of his short stories,  Flight.

Steven Kille, Bassist for Dead Meadow alludes to the characters that the three band members portray in their upcoming film The Three Kings (Xemu Records).  A stunning mix of fantasy film and multi-camera live concert footage, The Three Kings overlays the transcendental experience of the band’s music with film vignettes of The Three Kings at work.

“They are sort of a play on characters we allude to a bit in our last record (Old Growth), but elaborated on with the biblical Bedouins concept of wandering holy mystics and function as a vehicle to bring all these ideas we have had for years into your living room. The Kings look into our mortal world where each of the three human characters we play are tempted by the dark side of things and each react differently. Not sure if it is a moral tale, but I suppose a viewer can look at it like that.”

The Three Kings is a celebration of the band’s lyrical mythos and is directed by Artificial Army who in the past bent reality with videos for the likes of The Sword, Mars Volta and Coheed & Cambria.