DEAD AND LIVING, THE
DECADANCE

FROM SWEDEN ROCK FESTIVAL’S PRESENTATION: The Dead And Living want to make death appear more appealing. No, not by romanticizing suicide, more by making the statement that we're all gonna die and that's really no reason to be gloomy. Not surprisingly, one of the band's pivotal heroes is filmmaker Tim Burton... The Dead And Living's debut "Decadance" (notice the spelling) arrived last year as an odd, highly intriguing blend of goth metal, Nick Cave, Swedish punk icon Thastrom and even his countrymen the Coffinshaker's, Sweden's essential heroes of vampire country music. In other words, old and new all jumbled together, with a curiously intimate atmosphere very well suited to be arranged acoustically.