...And You Will Know Us By The Trail Of Dead

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…And You Will Know Us by the Trail of Dead is an indie rock band best known for their heavy yet anthemic music and their tendency to destroy their equipment at the end of their performances (a rock and roll tradition usually associated with The Who). According to the band's website, the name "…And You Will Know Us by the Trail of Dead" is taken from an ancient Mayan ritual chant which shows a striking similarity to an ancient Egyptian chant[1] (see also Pre-Columbian trans-oceanic contact). However, this explanation is really an ongoing joke [2]. The chief creative element of the band consists of Jason Reece and Conrad Keely. The two switch between drumming and lead vocals and guitar, both on their records and during their shows...

Discography

• ...And You Will Know Us by the Trail of Dead (1998)
• Madonna (1999)
• Source Tags & Codes (2002)
• The Secret of Elena's Tomb (2003)
• Worlds Apart (2005)

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New Trail of Dead Album Due in October Bravely hopping back up on the horse that they fell so, so hard from with 2005's Worlds Apart, Texas crazies ...And You Will Know Us By the Trail of Dead have revealed that on October 3, they will release a new, currently untitled record via Interscope.
According to Billboard.com, the album, recorded at Trail of Dead's Mob House studio in Austin, features a variety of guest vocalists, including the Dresden Dolls' Amanda Palmer and members of fellow Lone Star State band Brothers & Sisters.
Last week, frontman Conrad Keely revealed two song titles on his MySpace page: "Naked Sun" (written ten years ago) and "Sunken Dreams". He wrote that the effort's artwork will "tackle on Biblical theme (Salome), a mythological theme (Oedipus), a theme of American 1950s dysfunction, death, urban isolation, and one theme taken from a science fiction novel." So to clear that up, we've got Salome accidentally sleeping with her depressed, suburban mother...in space. Love it.
Billboard.com had the opportunity to speak to Keely about the record (he revealed that an additional track, "Wasted State of Mind", made the cut). He tried to approach the disc with an "I don't give a fuck outlook," but, he said, "it's impossible for me not to care, and when work got underway with this album I became just as emotionally involved as before, and it was another miserable ordeal. But at least I don't work at a coffee shop."
Trail of Dead will hit the road with the Blood Brothers this fall. "These days it seems we end up playing older songs more than new songs, but that might change," Keely told Billboard. "It's going to be particularly hard playing some of these new songs without the help of the backup singers we used in the recording. I wouldn't mind taking a break from touring all together, and possibly starting a family, somewhere far away like Australia or Venus."

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I've never heard of this band, Pi. But I'm leaving my post here cuz you started this thread.

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Yeah they ain't exactly that well known...not to say they're unknown.

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Unknown.... well, ok.
I'm going home now, bye.

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Think the album Source Tags & Codes sold more than 300,000 in the USA...

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^ That dog caught my eye. Not the band.