DEAD MEADOW

“THE THREE KINGS” DBL LP+DVD, CD+DVD

FIVE NEW SONGS, LIVE RECORDING AND ORIGINAL FILM

“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.