Discover Top Posts Tagged with #dead sisters

Meeting Dead Sisters

~By Shawn Gibson~

Two years ago, a mysterious trio called DEAD SISTERS emerged upon the New England scene, capturing our attention forthwith. A year later, they were playing Maryland Doom Festival. It was high time that Doomed & Stoned followed the trail of holy hell to meet them.

☩

Let's do introductions! Who's who in the band and what do you play?

C: Sister Catherine, I play guitar and whatever else is needed.

M: Sister Meredeth, I worship with my voice and percussion instruments.

K: Sister Kerr, I play guitar and sing.

What is the inspiration and origin of Dead Sisters?

C: We are like-minded in that we wish to guide vibrations to their fullest potential of beauty with the utmost of patience.

M: The inspiration for DS is the beginning of time itself. The origin is the collision of time, place, judgement and reckoning.

K: We are longtime sisters and collaborators; we started by writing and recording our first piece (Sermon) using markers and poster paper. We wanted to react to a prominent and powerful death cult by plugging in as many amplifiers as possible.

How would you describe your music?

C: The pieces are reflections of every path we choose to take under the oppression of a strangling society with temporal experiences of the confusion and excitement that comes with commitment.

M: Our music is pure and divine and moving. It is wholly dedicated to our worshipers.

K: Meditative and cathartic. Wrathful, violent, and fun.

What drives your music?

C: Sorrow and Joy.

M: Our music is driven by ignorance, inequality and hate of today’s society. Hail Hartley.

K: Our connection to one another (we live in different states) and our commitment to spreading the truth.

Please explain the artwork for 'Dead Sisters' (2018) and 'All Your Eyes' (2019).

C: I am very pleased with the depiction.

M: The artwork for our first releases come from a family heirloom. To be preserved before its eminent decay.

K: Animal flesh is often arranged in pleasing shapes so children find it more palatable to eat. Bibles are often presented with illustrations for the same purpose.

Will there be Dead Sisters patches in the future?

C: Patches are the stepping stones to tapestries. Very soon.

M: Soon we will have patches and treasures beyond any dream.

K: We have many ideas for more effective and eye-catching paraphernalia in the future. Remain alert.

What music has influenced your own? Bands like Buried At Sea?

C: La Monte Young, Meth Drinker.

M: Musical influences include Pentagram, Grief, Electric Wizard, Wayne Shorter, Noothgrush, Ahab, Toadliquor, Daughters, Miles Davis, Anal Cunt, Dopethrone, Bongripper, Bill Evans, Pig Destroyer, Napalm Death, Coffinworm, Elvin Jones, John Luther Adams and many others.

K: The Body, Khanate, Lingua Ignota, Morton Feldman, Swans, and the wrongful deaths of innumerable women and children at the hands of pious men.

I ordered a Dead Sisters shirt and cassette from your Bandcamp page. Do the cassettes come with lyrics? I am curious to know the lyrics to your songs!

K: Our lyrics are available to read on our Bandcamp page. We include them with every song. The cassette does not have lyrics.

On your Bandcamp page, one of your tags for your music says anti-Christian? Could you talk about that a little bit?

C: Christianity is an illusion that has been shoved upon the residents of our society as a way to keep Feudalism alive. We choose not to turn a blind eye to true sin by addressing hypocrisy instigated by the bourgeoisie. If there is any confusion, I will clear it up now: Nazism has NO place in any world.

M: Anti-Christian tags are for clarity, yet occasionally remain unnoticed. Society is an illusion.

K: Child-threatening death cults have no place in a healthy society. Abuse apologists and master manipulators should not hold power. Is a book which promotes violence and othering an appropriate rulebook? Much so-called Christian art is very beautiful. People and life are beautiful. Some ideas are not.

What is a fantastic book that has blown your mind?

C: Wisconsin Death Trip is my favorite picture book.

M: No comment.

K: I enjoy reading utopian science fiction. I just finished The Dispossessed by Ursula K. LeGuin (more of an anarchist perspective and very moving, LeGuin’s short stories are wonderful too). My favorite book of this type is Island by Aldous Huxley.

What makes the Sisters laugh?

M: My sisters bring me much humor.

ALL YOUR EYES by Dead Sisters

What bands are Dead Sisters listening to these days?

C: Iggy Pop, Curtis Mayfield, The Body.

M: dim, Angel Morgue, Greylock, The Cult, Spectral Voice, Blood Incantation, Thou, cttboto, Thin Lizzy, Fistula and Churchburn.

K: Kali Malone, Blackwater Holylight, Body Void, Dreamcrusher, Low, Malevich.

I saw a flyer on your Instagram that you played with Chained To The Bottom Of The Ocean! I love them! I'm glad to have seen them at New Brookland Tavern in Columbia, South Carolina. How was that show? I wish I could have been at that show seeing both of you live!

C: We did great. I made one new friend.

M: Our inaugural ceremony was a cataclysm of divine tools and true worshipers. DUSK-Providence, RI is a genuine temple.

K: Playing with Chained was a great experience, and extremely loud. We hope to gather our amps with them again soon. They are touring in November to support their new album; everyone should endeavor to see them. We share a mutual love of Thou’s music.

I was just four minutes and forty seconds into 'All Your Eyes' (2019) and holy fuck! I was almost knocked out when it got heavier.

M: A holy fuck indeed.

K: Thank you. One of our goals is to reward the patient and attentive listener with a powerful experience.

'All Your Eyes' (2019), which inspires me to get a tattoo of that song somehow, is twenty-one minutes and fifty seconds long. 'Dead Sisters' (2018) has "Call To Worship" which is fifteen minutes and fifty seconds. "Sermon" is thirty-seven and fourteen seconds long. "Benediction" twenty-one minutes and thirty-six seconds long. Very heavy slabs to consume!

C: The TABs are rather light.

M: Temporal matters of our recorded worships are required for true enlightenment.

K: Getting the tattoo may likely take less time than listening to our cassette. You might try doing both simultaneously. Why would you mark up your beautiful body like that? You should be ashamed.

What has been an awkward situation for Dead Sisters?

C: Every time a worship musician gives us a misinformed shoutout.

M: An awkward moment for my sisters and I occurs when places of worship cannot support our holy current.

Do you play in other bands? Would you tell us if you did?

C: I would never.

M: Other projects include choir, our badminton team and heavy seasonal gardening.

What is in the future for Dead Sisters?

C: Many drink tickets and blown fuses.

M: The future of DS is terrifying and certain.

K: Stay with us. Without you we are nothing. Several releases are imminent, one of which will be very substantial.

Dead Sisters by Dead Sisters

Follow The Band

Get Their Music

#D&S Interviews #Dead Sisters #Massachusetts #Doom #Sludge #Metal #Doom Metal #Shawn Gibson #Doomed & Stoned