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: In this day and age, it is easy to become lost amongst the myriad peddlers of new-age philosophy and Eastern religion. It was a great joy to be introduced to the writings and teachings of Thanissaro Bhikkhu, an American-born Buddhist monk of the Theravadan tradition. His clear and intelligent teachings are based of the early Pali Canon, the closest and first-written account of what the Buddha actually taught so long ago. The depth and level of insight the Buddha achieved into the workings of consciousness and the suffering we create by our view of ourselves and the world continually astounds me.
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