King Dude - Holy Land

King Dude - Big Blue Eyes video

The Long Wives...

Darkly gothic Neo-Folk from LA, The Long Wives are one Brandy St. John (vocals, guitar, piano, songwriting and recording.) This one woman purveyor of quietly echoing melancholia, dark and brooding, paganistic feeling black folk creates songs about death and love, and the death of love. Look out King Dude! Check out her Facebook to download a huge bunch of songs.

Death Of Abel - free downloads.

Another Neo Folk artist today! Death of Abel is the side-project of Luca Morte. He is also known as the singer of the New Wave/Goth Band Die Selektion. This is more visceral than King Dude, more angst ridden and close, elements of post punk filter through now and then to this German language artist, electronic sounds grating but working in perfectly. Songs for earnest young men wondering the hilltops shouting at clouds and rolling naked in wild flowers. Go to the Soundcloud page to download a bunch of great songs for free.

Liebe by Death of Abel
Svartedauden by Death of Abel

King Dude - Tonight's Special Death LP

Very few are as good as King Dude, this one man unstoppable neo-folk machine forged in the deep pine forests and forgotten mountains of some long lost aeon can do no wrong in my opinion. The latest votive offering for fans ears to consume is an LP called Tonight's Special Death and is released 10th September this year on Avant Records, so not long!

Tonight Special Death is full of warmth and analogue clutter, echoes tumbling through pagan halls of the elders, reverberating off the armour of long dead Chieftains buried in the barrows and hills of the Downlands, strummed guitars like larks high above in beached blue skies oblivious to the history below, laments and howls emanating from dry cracked lips.

King Dude is about to embark upon a short European tour starting in Belgium on 3rd September go see him!

New King Dude video for No One Is Here!!

The King Dude videos rock!

Really getting on a King Dude thing at the moment. Just discovered the videos, so good, the kinda thing I wanna start putting together. So today on the blog is just a whole bunch of great viewing to be had. First up is My Beloved Ghost -the guitar sound reminds me of the more melancholic of tracks from The Brian Jonestown Massacre.

Then we have the video for The Black Triangle, and its sexually ambiguous pretagonist.

Finally we have a video with more video shake than The Blair Witch Project, it wouldn't have been that hard to keep it more steady, but any way try not to get motion sickness and make sure you watch the surprise twist ending!

King Dude video interview by Nick Gazin.

King Dude Gets Interviewed and Performs "No One Is Here" from Nick Gazin on Vimeo.

So its taken till now to listen to King Dude and wow he's really good. Part of the Disaro label he does gothic neo folk. In this video he's being interviewed at the Mishka store in Brooklyn in front of his Actual Pain t.shirts which are almost as good as his music, then he plays a tune. Found this video on the Sorta Human blog which as per usual kicks ass!