...And You Will Know Us By The Trail Of Dead
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post-hardcoreart rock
...And You Will Know Us By The Trail Of Dead
Conrad Keely - guitar, vocals, drums
Jason Reece - guitar, vocals, drums
Aaron Blount - guitar, vocals
Alec Padron - bass
-from Austin, TX
Six years on from the release of their previous record, Austin's art-rock punk 'mothertruckers' ...And You Will Know Us by the Trail Of Dead return with their tenth album - X: The Godless Void and Other Stories - set for release on January 17, 2020 via Superball Music in Europe and Dine Alone Records in North America.
Expansive yet concise, X: The Godless Void and Other Stories leans in and reaches forth.... From the synth-orchestral swell of curtain-raiser "Opening Crescendoes" that recalls Hans Zimmer and Tangerine Dream to "All Who Wander," a descending guitar-soaked high drama that simmers underlying despondence that crawls psychic.
Next up, "Something Like This" offers nods to the ethereal songcraft that defined the sound of the legendary 4AD label, before everything kicks in at full pelt with "Into The Godless Void," as noisy and thrilling an existential anthem as the band have ever put their name to. And this is just the first four songs - it's hard to imagine this eclecticism is anything other than deliberate, but as founder, songwriter and multi-instrumentalist Conrad Keely says of their music, "Songs have a life of its own. If you listen to them, they'll tell you how they want to manifest."
The band played their first show in 1995, the same year they released a live rendition of the darkly dissonant "Isis" as a demo on a mixtape via Golden Hour, an underground cassette-only label. They swiftly became as well known for trashing their instruments as for the giddy thrill of their wide-eyed noise-rock, culminating in the majestic sprawl of their self-titled debut album two years later.
Absorbing the chaos and reckless abandon they made their way to make the self-titled album (1997) and through the flame to form Madonna (1999) and Source Tags And Codes (2002), Worlds Apart (2005), So Divided (2007), Century of Self (2009) to 2011's triumphant Tao Of The Dead and its jagged follow-up Lost Songs (2012). Working away finally on IX (2014) ...Trail...with all the years and days of being wild...they have kept up a rather nice work ethic.... Never giving in to whatever is en vogue at the moment....
Work on X: The Godless Void and Other Stories began in earnest in 2018, after Keely returned to the band's hometown of Austin following five years in Cambodia. That also marked a return to action for Trail Of Dead, with previous album IX having dropped in 2014 - in that time, fellow founding member Jason Reece put time into other musical projects back in Texas while Keely released his solo record Original Machines (2016) and continued to spend time on his illustration work, as well as his long-gestating science fantasy novel Strange News From Another Planet.
As a result, the album sees Keely detailing "the sadness of moving away from a place that I'd loved," while also taking inspiration from Steven Pressfield's book The War Of Art to face his own demons regarding the creative process. "I feel like I'm writing pop music," he says, "it's just not Top 20 pop. It's the pop music I wish was on the radio, the pop music I would've grown up with."
Reece agrees, citing Talk Talk, Killing Joke and Laurie Anderson as inspirations. "There's definitely the idea of loss, leaving someone or something important in your life, but it's more abstract," he explains, adding that the track "Into The Godless Void" in particular deals with "this existential woe that all humans tend to go through - feeling that weight that plagues the mind."
Keely's novel-in-progress also has a part to play, with some songs inspired by episodes in the book. Its stories echo across the band's albums dating back to Tao Of The Dead. It's a fantasy world his lyrics continuously return to, and a guarded secret that fans will have to wait for in order to see how both lyrics and artwork play into his grand scheme.
With a new line-up having recently toured the 20th anniversary of Madonna, they've also reverted to the live format of their earlier years, with Reece and Keely alternating between drums and frontman duties - a musical partnership that dates back to their high school days. Appropriately, it all feels fresh, even with the band's 25th anniversary looming in 2020.
"When Conrad moved to Cambodia, we both had time to live our lives and do different things," Reece explains. "Coming back to the band, there was a new vigor to it. It all feels exciting still."
~~~~~~~~
An unlikely but powerful combination of punk fury and prog rock ambition, ...And You Will Know Us by the Trail of Dead were formed in late 1994 by singers/guitarists/drummers Jason Reece and Conrad Keely. The longtime friends originally met in Hawaii before settling in the indie hotbed of Olympia, Washington, where Reece drummed for the notorious Mukilteo Fairies. After relocating together to Austin, Texas, the duo began playing shows as "You Will Know Us by theTrail of Dead," eventually adding both the conjunction and the ellipsis to the band's name. The pair also recruited guitarist Kevin Allen and bassist/sampler Neil Busch, thus transforming the group from an indie two-piece into an arty quartet. After issuing a live cassette on the local Golden Hour label, AYWKUBTTOD -- already legendary in indie circles for their anarchic concert sets -- released their self-titled full-length debut on Trance Syndicate in early 1998. Following the label's collapse, the band moved to Merge's roster and issued Madonna in the fall of 1999.
After signing yet another record deal with Interscope, they issued the formidable Source Tags & Codes in 2002, followed by The Secret of Elena's Tomb EP in 2003. The elaborate Worlds Apart arrived early in 2005. Despite widespread acclaim for the album, its sales were disappointing, leading Keely to consider disbanding the group. However, he and the rest of AYWKUBTTOD found inspiration in their frustration and bounced back with So Divided -- initially conceived as an EP, but gradually expanded into a full-length effort -- in late 2006. Their subsequent departure from Interscope Records convinced the musicians to launch their own label, Richter Scale Records, in partnership with the Texas-based Justice Records. Free of the constraints of conventional label deals, the band then brewed up a batch of contemporary prog anthems and released an EP, 2008's Festival Thyme, to ramp up support for a full-length album. The Century of Self followed in early 2009.
AYWKUBTTOD then scaled down their lineup, choosing to record their next album as a four-piece. The result, Tao of the Dead, also doubled as one of the most band's most conceptual works to date, with a 16-song set list divided into two lengthy tracks, each of which was performed in a specific musical key. After Keely's move to Cambodia's capitol city, Phnom Penh. Tao of the Dead recruits Autry Fulbright and Jamie Miller headed to Hanover, Germany in the summer of 2012 to record Lost Songs. One of the band's most overtly political sets of songs, the album was released that October. The group returned to Texas' Hill Country to record 2014's IX, an introspective set named after the ninth planet in the solar system in the world of Frank Herbert's Dune. (Jason Ankeny, Rovi). In 2018 the band began to celebrate the 20th year anniversary of their seminal album, "Madonna" and the addition of Aaron Blount (guitar) and Alec Padron (bass) to the touring lineup performing the album in it's entirety around the world.
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https://www.facebook.com/andyouwillknowusbythetrailofdead/
post-hardcoreart rock
...And You Will Know Us By The Trail Of Dead
Conrad Keely - guitar, vocals, drums
Jason Reece - guitar, vocals, drums
Aaron Blount - guitar, vocals
Alec Padron - bass
-from Austin, TX
Six years on from the release of their previous record, Austin's art-rock punk 'mothertruckers' ...And You Will Know Us by the Trail Of Dead return with their tenth album - X: The Godless Void and Other Stories - set for release on January 17, 2020 via Superball Music in Europe and Dine Alone Records in North America.
Expansive yet concise, X: The Godless Void and Other Stories leans in and reaches forth.... From the synth-orchestral swell of curtain-raiser "Opening Crescendoes" that recalls Hans Zimmer and Tangerine Dream to "All Who Wander," a descending guitar-soaked high drama that simmers underlying despondence that crawls psychic.
Next up, "Something Like This" offers nods to the ethereal songcraft that defined the sound of the legendary 4AD label, before everything kicks in at full pelt with "Into The Godless Void," as noisy and thrilling an existential anthem as the band have ever put their name to. And this is just the first four songs - it's hard to imagine this eclecticism is anything other than deliberate, but as founder, songwriter and multi-instrumentalist Conrad Keely says of their music, "Songs have a life of its own. If you listen to them, they'll tell you how they want to manifest."
The band played their first show in 1995, the same year they released a live rendition of the darkly dissonant "Isis" as a demo on a mixtape via Golden Hour, an underground cassette-only label. They swiftly became as well known for trashing their instruments as for the giddy thrill of their wide-eyed noise-rock, culminating in the majestic sprawl of their self-titled debut album two years later.
Absorbing the chaos and reckless abandon they made their way to make the self-titled album (1997) and through the flame to form Madonna (1999) and Source Tags And Codes (2002), Worlds Apart (2005), So Divided (2007), Century of Self (2009) to 2011's triumphant Tao Of The Dead and its jagged follow-up Lost Songs (2012). Working away finally on IX (2014) ...Trail...with all the years and days of being wild...they have kept up a rather nice work ethic.... Never giving in to whatever is en vogue at the moment....
Work on X: The Godless Void and Other Stories began in earnest in 2018, after Keely returned to the band's hometown of Austin following five years in Cambodia. That also marked a return to action for Trail Of Dead, with previous album IX having dropped in 2014 - in that time, fellow founding member Jason Reece put time into other musical projects back in Texas while Keely released his solo record Original Machines (2016) and continued to spend time on his illustration work, as well as his long-gestating science fantasy novel Strange News From Another Planet.
As a result, the album sees Keely detailing "the sadness of moving away from a place that I'd loved," while also taking inspiration from Steven Pressfield's book The War Of Art to face his own demons regarding the creative process. "I feel like I'm writing pop music," he says, "it's just not Top 20 pop. It's the pop music I wish was on the radio, the pop music I would've grown up with."
Reece agrees, citing Talk Talk, Killing Joke and Laurie Anderson as inspirations. "There's definitely the idea of loss, leaving someone or something important in your life, but it's more abstract," he explains, adding that the track "Into The Godless Void" in particular deals with "this existential woe that all humans tend to go through - feeling that weight that plagues the mind."
Keely's novel-in-progress also has a part to play, with some songs inspired by episodes in the book. Its stories echo across the band's albums dating back to Tao Of The Dead. It's a fantasy world his lyrics continuously return to, and a guarded secret that fans will have to wait for in order to see how both lyrics and artwork play into his grand scheme.
With a new line-up having recently toured the 20th anniversary of Madonna, they've also reverted to the live format of their earlier years, with Reece and Keely alternating between drums and frontman duties - a musical partnership that dates back to their high school days. Appropriately, it all feels fresh, even with the band's 25th anniversary looming in 2020.
"When Conrad moved to Cambodia, we both had time to live our lives and do different things," Reece explains. "Coming back to the band, there was a new vigor to it. It all feels exciting still."
~~~~~~~~
An unlikely but powerful combination of punk fury and prog rock ambition, ...And You Will Know Us by the Trail of Dead were formed in late 1994 by singers/guitarists/drummers Jason Reece and Conrad Keely. The longtime friends originally met in Hawaii before settling in the indie hotbed of Olympia, Washington, where Reece drummed for the notorious Mukilteo Fairies. After relocating together to Austin, Texas, the duo began playing shows as "You Will Know Us by theTrail of Dead," eventually adding both the conjunction and the ellipsis to the band's name. The pair also recruited guitarist Kevin Allen and bassist/sampler Neil Busch, thus transforming the group from an indie two-piece into an arty quartet. After issuing a live cassette on the local Golden Hour label, AYWKUBTTOD -- already legendary in indie circles for their anarchic concert sets -- released their self-titled full-length debut on Trance Syndicate in early 1998. Following the label's collapse, the band moved to Merge's roster and issued Madonna in the fall of 1999.
After signing yet another record deal with Interscope, they issued the formidable Source Tags & Codes in 2002, followed by The Secret of Elena's Tomb EP in 2003. The elaborate Worlds Apart arrived early in 2005. Despite widespread acclaim for the album, its sales were disappointing, leading Keely to consider disbanding the group. However, he and the rest of AYWKUBTTOD found inspiration in their frustration and bounced back with So Divided -- initially conceived as an EP, but gradually expanded into a full-length effort -- in late 2006. Their subsequent departure from Interscope Records convinced the musicians to launch their own label, Richter Scale Records, in partnership with the Texas-based Justice Records. Free of the constraints of conventional label deals, the band then brewed up a batch of contemporary prog anthems and released an EP, 2008's Festival Thyme, to ramp up support for a full-length album. The Century of Self followed in early 2009.
AYWKUBTTOD then scaled down their lineup, choosing to record their next album as a four-piece. The result, Tao of the Dead, also doubled as one of the most band's most conceptual works to date, with a 16-song set list divided into two lengthy tracks, each of which was performed in a specific musical key. After Keely's move to Cambodia's capitol city, Phnom Penh. Tao of the Dead recruits Autry Fulbright and Jamie Miller headed to Hanover, Germany in the summer of 2012 to record Lost Songs. One of the band's most overtly political sets of songs, the album was released that October. The group returned to Texas' Hill Country to record 2014's IX, an introspective set named after the ninth planet in the solar system in the world of Frank Herbert's Dune. (Jason Ankeny, Rovi). In 2018 the band began to celebrate the 20th year anniversary of their seminal album, "Madonna" and the addition of Aaron Blount (guitar) and Alec Padron (bass) to the touring lineup performing the album in it's entirety around the world.
...And You Will Know Us By The Trail Of Dead
https://www.facebook.com/andyouwillknowusbythetrailofdead/
post-hardcoreart rock
...And You Will Know Us By The Trail Of Dead
Conrad Keely - guitar, vocals, drums
Jason Reece - guitar, vocals, drums
Aaron Blount - guitar, vocals
Alec Padron - bass
-from Austin, TX
Six years on from the release of their previous record, Austin's art-rock punk 'mothertruckers' ...And You Will Know Us by the Trail Of Dead return with their tenth album - X: The Godless Void and Other Stories - set for release on January 17, 2020 via Superball Music in Europe and Dine Alone Records in North America.
Expansive yet concise, X: The Godless Void and Other Stories leans in and reaches forth.... From the synth-orchestral swell of curtain-raiser "Opening Crescendoes" that recalls Hans Zimmer and Tangerine Dream to "All Who Wander," a descending guitar-soaked high drama that simmers underlying despondence that crawls psychic.
Next up, "Something Like This" offers nods to the ethereal songcraft that defined the sound of the legendary 4AD label, before everything kicks in at full pelt with "Into The Godless Void," as noisy and thrilling an existential anthem as the band have ever put their name to. And this is just the first four songs - it's hard to imagine this eclecticism is anything other than deliberate, but as founder, songwriter and multi-instrumentalist Conrad Keely says of their music, "Songs have a life of its own. If you listen to them, they'll tell you how they want to manifest."
The band played their first show in 1995, the same year they released a live rendition of the darkly dissonant "Isis" as a demo on a mixtape via Golden Hour, an underground cassette-only label. They swiftly became as well known for trashing their instruments as for the giddy thrill of their wide-eyed noise-rock, culminating in the majestic sprawl of their self-titled debut album two years later.
Absorbing the chaos and reckless abandon they made their way to make the self-titled album (1997) and through the flame to form Madonna (1999) and Source Tags And Codes (2002), Worlds Apart (2005), So Divided (2007), Century of Self (2009) to 2011's triumphant Tao Of The Dead and its jagged follow-up Lost Songs (2012). Working away finally on IX (2014) ...Trail...with all the years and days of being wild...they have kept up a rather nice work ethic.... Never giving in to whatever is en vogue at the moment....
Work on X: The Godless Void and Other Stories began in earnest in 2018, after Keely returned to the band's hometown of Austin following five years in Cambodia. That also marked a return to action for Trail Of Dead, with previous album IX having dropped in 2014 - in that time, fellow founding member Jason Reece put time into other musical projects back in Texas while Keely released his solo record Original Machines (2016) and continued to spend time on his illustration work, as well as his long-gestating science fantasy novel Strange News From Another Planet.
As a result, the album sees Keely detailing "the sadness of moving away from a place that I'd loved," while also taking inspiration from Steven Pressfield's book The War Of Art to face his own demons regarding the creative process. "I feel like I'm writing pop music," he says, "it's just not Top 20 pop. It's the pop music I wish was on the radio, the pop music I would've grown up with."
Reece agrees, citing Talk Talk, Killing Joke and Laurie Anderson as inspirations. "There's definitely the idea of loss, leaving someone or something important in your life, but it's more abstract," he explains, adding that the track "Into The Godless Void" in particular deals with "this existential woe that all humans tend to go through - feeling that weight that plagues the mind."
Keely's novel-in-progress also has a part to play, with some songs inspired by episodes in the book. Its stories echo across the band's albums dating back to Tao Of The Dead. It's a fantasy world his lyrics continuously return to, and a guarded secret that fans will have to wait for in order to see how both lyrics and artwork play into his grand scheme.
With a new line-up having recently toured the 20th anniversary of Madonna, they've also reverted to the live format of their earlier years, with Reece and Keely alternating between drums and frontman duties - a musical partnership that dates back to their high school days. Appropriately, it all feels fresh, even with the band's 25th anniversary looming in 2020.
"When Conrad moved to Cambodia, we both had time to live our lives and do different things," Reece explains. "Coming back to the band, there was a new vigor to it. It all feels exciting still."
~~~~~~~~
An unlikely but powerful combination of punk fury and prog rock ambition, ...And You Will Know Us by the Trail of Dead were formed in late 1994 by singers/guitarists/drummers Jason Reece and Conrad Keely. The longtime friends originally met in Hawaii before settling in the indie hotbed of Olympia, Washington, where Reece drummed for the notorious Mukilteo Fairies. After relocating together to Austin, Texas, the duo began playing shows as "You Will Know Us by theTrail of Dead," eventually adding both the conjunction and the ellipsis to the band's name. The pair also recruited guitarist Kevin Allen and bassist/sampler Neil Busch, thus transforming the group from an indie two-piece into an arty quartet. After issuing a live cassette on the local Golden Hour label, AYWKUBTTOD -- already legendary in indie circles for their anarchic concert sets -- released their self-titled full-length debut on Trance Syndicate in early 1998. Following the label's collapse, the band moved to Merge's roster and issued Madonna in the fall of 1999.
After signing yet another record deal with Interscope, they issued the formidable Source Tags & Codes in 2002, followed by The Secret of Elena's Tomb EP in 2003. The elaborate Worlds Apart arrived early in 2005. Despite widespread acclaim for the album, its sales were disappointing, leading Keely to consider disbanding the group. However, he and the rest of AYWKUBTTOD found inspiration in their frustration and bounced back with So Divided -- initially conceived as an EP, but gradually expanded into a full-length effort -- in late 2006. Their subsequent departure from Interscope Records convinced the musicians to launch their own label, Richter Scale Records, in partnership with the Texas-based Justice Records. Free of the constraints of conventional label deals, the band then brewed up a batch of contemporary prog anthems and released an EP, 2008's Festival Thyme, to ramp up support for a full-length album. The Century of Self followed in early 2009.
AYWKUBTTOD then scaled down their lineup, choosing to record their next album as a four-piece. The result, Tao of the Dead, also doubled as one of the most band's most conceptual works to date, with a 16-song set list divided into two lengthy tracks, each of which was performed in a specific musical key. After Keely's move to Cambodia's capitol city, Phnom Penh. Tao of the Dead recruits Autry Fulbright and Jamie Miller headed to Hanover, Germany in the summer of 2012 to record Lost Songs. One of the band's most overtly political sets of songs, the album was released that October. The group returned to Texas' Hill Country to record 2014's IX, an introspective set named after the ninth planet in the solar system in the world of Frank Herbert's Dune. (Jason Ankeny, Rovi). In 2018 the band began to celebrate the 20th year anniversary of their seminal album, "Madonna" and the addition of Aaron Blount (guitar) and Alec Padron (bass) to the touring lineup performing the album in it's entirety around the world.
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...And You Will Know Us By The Trail Of Dead
Conrad Keely - guitar, vocals, drums
Jason Reece - guitar, vocals, drums
Aaron Blount - guitar, vocals
Alec Padron - bass
-from Austin, TX
Six years on from the release of their previous record, Austin's art-rock punk 'mothertruckers' ...And You Will Know Us by the Trail Of Dead return with their tenth album - X: The Godless Void and Other Stories - set for release on January 17, 2020 via Superball Music in Europe and Dine Alone Records in North America.
Expansive yet concise, X: The Godless Void and Other Stories leans in and reaches forth.... From the synth-orchestral swell of curtain-raiser "Opening Crescendoes" that recalls Hans Zimmer and Tangerine Dream to "All Who Wander," a descending guitar-soaked high drama that simmers underlying despondence that crawls psychic.
Next up, "Something Like This" offers nods to the ethereal songcraft that defined the sound of the legendary 4AD label, before everything kicks in at full pelt with "Into The Godless Void," as noisy and thrilling an existential anthem as the band have ever put their name to. And this is just the first four songs - it's hard to imagine this eclecticism is anything other than deliberate, but as founder, songwriter and multi-instrumentalist Conrad Keely says of their music, "Songs have a life of its own. If you listen to them, they'll tell you how they want to manifest."
The band played their first show in 1995, the same year they released a live rendition of the darkly dissonant "Isis" as a demo on a mixtape via Golden Hour, an underground cassette-only label. They swiftly became as well known for trashing their instruments as for the giddy thrill of their wide-eyed noise-rock, culminating in the majestic sprawl of their self-titled debut album two years later.
Absorbing the chaos and reckless abandon they made their way to make the self-titled album (1997) and through the flame to form Madonna (1999) and Source Tags And Codes (2002), Worlds Apart (2005), So Divided (2007), Century of Self (2009) to 2011's triumphant Tao Of The Dead and its jagged follow-up Lost Songs (2012). Working away finally on IX (2014) ...Trail...with all the years and days of being wild...they have kept up a rather nice work ethic.... Never giving in to whatever is en vogue at the moment....
Work on X: The Godless Void and Other Stories began in earnest in 2018, after Keely returned to the band's hometown of Austin following five years in Cambodia. That also marked a return to action for Trail Of Dead, with previous album IX having dropped in 2014 - in that time, fellow founding member Jason Reece put time into other musical projects back in Texas while Keely released his solo record Original Machines (2016) and continued to spend time on his illustration work, as well as his long-gestating science fantasy novel Strange News From Another Planet.
As a result, the album sees Keely detailing "the sadness of moving away from a place that I'd loved," while also taking inspiration from Steven Pressfield's book The War Of Art to face his own demons regarding the creative process. "I feel like I'm writing pop music," he says, "it's just not Top 20 pop. It's the pop music I wish was on the radio, the pop music I would've grown up with."
Reece agrees, citing Talk Talk, Killing Joke and Laurie Anderson as inspirations. "There's definitely the idea of loss, leaving someone or something important in your life, but it's more abstract," he explains, adding that the track "Into The Godless Void" in particular deals with "this existential woe that all humans tend to go through - feeling that weight that plagues the mind."
Keely's novel-in-progress also has a part to play, with some songs inspired by episodes in the book. Its stories echo across the band's albums dating back to Tao Of The Dead. It's a fantasy world his lyrics continuously return to, and a guarded secret that fans will have to wait for in order to see how both lyrics and artwork play into his grand scheme.
With a new line-up having recently toured the 20th anniversary of Madonna, they've also reverted to the live format of their earlier years, with Reece and Keely alternating between drums and frontman duties - a musical partnership that dates back to their high school days. Appropriately, it all feels fresh, even with the band's 25th anniversary looming in 2020.
"When Conrad moved to Cambodia, we both had time to live our lives and do different things," Reece explains. "Coming back to the band, there was a new vigor to it. It all feels exciting still."
~~~~~~~~
An unlikely but powerful combination of punk fury and prog rock ambition, ...And You Will Know Us by the Trail of Dead were formed in late 1994 by singers/guitarists/drummers Jason Reece and Conrad Keely. The longtime friends originally met in Hawaii before settling in the indie hotbed of Olympia, Washington, where Reece drummed for the notorious Mukilteo Fairies. After relocating together to Austin, Texas, the duo began playing shows as "You Will Know Us by theTrail of Dead," eventually adding both the conjunction and the ellipsis to the band's name. The pair also recruited guitarist Kevin Allen and bassist/sampler Neil Busch, thus transforming the group from an indie two-piece into an arty quartet. After issuing a live cassette on the local Golden Hour label, AYWKUBTTOD -- already legendary in indie circles for their anarchic concert sets -- released their self-titled full-length debut on Trance Syndicate in early 1998. Following the label's collapse, the band moved to Merge's roster and issued Madonna in the fall of 1999.
After signing yet another record deal with Interscope, they issued the formidable Source Tags & Codes in 2002, followed by The Secret of Elena's Tomb EP in 2003. The elaborate Worlds Apart arrived early in 2005. Despite widespread acclaim for the album, its sales were disappointing, leading Keely to consider disbanding the group. However, he and the rest of AYWKUBTTOD found inspiration in their frustration and bounced back with So Divided -- initially conceived as an EP, but gradually expanded into a full-length effort -- in late 2006. Their subsequent departure from Interscope Records convinced the musicians to launch their own label, Richter Scale Records, in partnership with the Texas-based Justice Records. Free of the constraints of conventional label deals, the band then brewed up a batch of contemporary prog anthems and released an EP, 2008's Festival Thyme, to ramp up support for a full-length album. The Century of Self followed in early 2009.
AYWKUBTTOD then scaled down their lineup, choosing to record their next album as a four-piece. The result, Tao of the Dead, also doubled as one of the most band's most conceptual works to date, with a 16-song set list divided into two lengthy tracks, each of which was performed in a specific musical key. After Keely's move to Cambodia's capitol city, Phnom Penh. Tao of the Dead recruits Autry Fulbright and Jamie Miller headed to Hanover, Germany in the summer of 2012 to record Lost Songs. One of the band's most overtly political sets of songs, the album was released that October. The group returned to Texas' Hill Country to record 2014's IX, an introspective set named after the ninth planet in the solar system in the world of Frank Herbert's Dune. (Jason Ankeny, Rovi). In 2018 the band began to celebrate the 20th year anniversary of their seminal album, "Madonna" and the addition of Aaron Blount (guitar) and Alec Padron (bass) to the touring lineup performing the album in it's entirety around the world.
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