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In the valley of your rest our winds are black as midnight breath. Where hands can’t find the light to loose the chains that keep me far from you. So Dead Man’s Bones must wait to rise from the house where shadows cry. But all this must change October 6th when our ghosts will leave their world for this. To dance with us at twilight time And bring your hand to lie in mine.

Upon entering Dead Man’s Bones' spooked out Myspace page, you're welcomed by a video with two glowing green hands waving around in the air accompanied by orotund church bells, twinklings from a Glockenspiel and cryptic droning that succeeds in being genuinely creepy. An old man enters, resembling a Faustian version of the Green Goblin mixed with a clean shaven Colonel Sanders. The grainy, glow laden head delivers the poem as transcribed above. The message is clear. Oscar nominated actor Ryan Gosling and his best friend Zach Shields are releasing their much anticipated self-titled debut album on Anti- Records October 6. The two have prided themselves on being amateur musicians, utilizing instruments they’ve never played and limiting themselves to no more than three takes. They revel in making fascinations with monsters/ zombies/ death come into fruition. Combine that with Silverlake Conservatory Children’s Choir providing extra vocals and Dead Man’s Bones will (hopefully) have a debut that fascinates its listeners with beautiful goth folk dread eerie enough to engage any credible music fan.

Dead Man's Bones performing "Name In Stone" live in a cemetery with LA Inner Mass Choir and The Silverlake Conservatory of Music Children's Choir

posted by: Bene Garcia

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In the valley of your rest
our winds are black as midnight breath.
Where hands can’t find the light to loose
the chains that keep me far from you.
So Dead Man’s Bones must wait to rise
from the house where shadows cry.
But all this must change October 6th
when our ghosts will leave their world for this.
To dance with us at twilight time
And bring your hand to lie in mine.

Upon entering Dead Man’s Bones’ spooked out Myspace page, you’re welcomed by a video with two glowing green hands waving around in the air accompanied by orotund church bells, twinklings from a Glockenspiel and cryptic droning that succeeds in being genuinely creepy. An old man enters, resembling a Faustian version of the Green Goblin mixed with a clean shaven Colonel Sanders. The grainy, glow laden head delivers the poem as transcribed above. The message is clear. Oscar nominated actor Ryan Gosling and his best friend Zach Shields are releasing their much anticipated self-titled debut album on Anti- Records October 6. The two have prided themselves on being amateur musicians, utilizing instruments they’ve never played and limiting themselves to no more than three takes. They revel in making fascinations with monsters/ zombies/ death come into fruition. Combine that with Silverlake Conservatory Children’s Choir providing extra vocals and Dead Man’s Bones will (hopefully) have a debut that fascinates its listeners with beautiful goth folk dread eerie enough to engage any credible music fan.


Dead Man’s Bones performing “Name In Stone” live in a cemetery with LA Inner Mass Choir and The Silverlake Conservatory of Music Children’s Choir

posted by: Bene Garcia

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