On new album Warble Womb (Xemu), Dead Meadow continues going its own way with a thick, dense sound that includes traces of folk, metal, ’60s rock, swampy blues and murky psychedelia. Hints of Howlin’ Wolf and Neil Young also go drifting through the mix from time to time. The long hours the band puts into its music is evident on every track of Warble Womb, an album that took three years to put together. The songs were shaped in Dead Meadow’s home studio and involved experiments with new sounds and recording techniques. Guitarist Jason Simon will be guest editing magnetmagazine.com all week. Read our new Dead Meadow feature.
Simon: Catalinbread is a great pedal company. I’ve had the opportunity to mess with a whole grip of them, and I dig. I used a number of them on Warble Womb. The Ottava Magus is a super-cool octave fuzz. They just put out their take on the tape echoplex, which is right up my alley as an echoplex user who has had them break down on the road countless times. Nothing compares to tape, but their pedal is closest I have heard for sure. They even designed a pedal for me based on some modifications I wanted to make to their Merkin. Mine’s called the Dead Merkin.
Video after the jump.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7CynGA8TnAg
