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Dead Meadow have just announced the details surrounding their upcoming record release party / film premiere for their upcoming new album and original film, The Three Kings, out on March 23rd. Taking place at the historic location of Hollywood Forever Cemetery on March 25th, the event will include the premiere of the Dead Meadow movie The Three Kings as well as a live performance by the band. The night will include an open bar, free admission and giveaways, special DJ appearances, and a yet to be determined opening band. There will also be an art showing of low-brow art scene artist Charles Wish. Charles has been a major contributor to Dead Meadow art including an animated sequence in The Three Kings and will be showing pieces from the movie.

In addition, Dead Meadow have also announced that any fan who orders an advance copy of The Three Kings will be guaranteed a spot on the list for the band’s film premiere in Los Angeles. Just email the band at contact@deadmeadow.com and write “get into the gig” as the subject.

JJ Koczan of The Obelisk recently conducted an interview with Dead Meadow’s Steve Kille about the release of The Three Kings.  A few excerpts from the chat follow below.

JJ Koczan: Can you explain the story of Three Kings?

Steve Kille: “There were so many ideas when we started with it, and then it’s come together where it’s basically these character roaming throughout the whole storyline, and you don’t know exactly what’s going on with them, and they’re just watching this whole thing unfold. Meanwhile, in the individual stories, both me, our guitar player and our drummer, we each have mini-adventures that lead us to the same place. In those mini-adventures, we’re tempted by this other side, the devil’s trying its hand to convince you to go one way or the other, and in the end we all meet at one place and basically it’s a moral challenge.”

JJ Koczan: How did it all develop? Does it capture the initial ideas you had going back?

Steve Kille: “Initially we always had, I guess even in the first few times we did music videos and we got into more visual media as a band, we’ve always been fans of ‘70s horror films. Really into the old Hammer films — especially me and the guitar player, since day one. Even the second album, the album cover — no one’s ever mentioned this — was kind of a throwback to 1970s cult films. And we always tried to incorporate that spookiness into the videos. It never really worked out as well, mainly because we never worked with people that could do things without a budget. It was always limited. When we finally were able to do this project, some of the ideas we had early on — everything from swamp monsters to spooky clowns and all this stuff that’s basically just ridiculous — is stuff we thought would be funny to interject visual representations of some of the aspects of our music.

We never had the budget to until now, and so we were able to pull some of these ideas that have been sitting around for a while. Finally, we can have the crazy monster from the ocean, and we do (laughs). You’ll see it in the film. It’s so funny, but in a sense, I feel it’s funny to talk about this stuff since it’s so different. When you’re making music as a band, you take it all so seriously. Sometimes I think bands take it too seriously. But I think when you’re doing the visual, what better way in being a band, to throw all the stuff you’d want to do if you were an actor but you can’t because you’re too embarrassed to? But with the music video, sure, you can have the spaceship come down and blow away Godzilla while you’re playing guitar. There’s a little bit of leeway with that, and I think it’s good to blur that. Hopefully, at least people that are fans of the band, will get that it’s tongue-in-cheek, but you’re supposed to enjoy it and have fun. There’s no other way as a band you can pull off that level of comedy without making a Weird Al record.”

Continue reading: Dead Meadow Interview with Steve Kille: Long Live the Three Kings

Tags: dead meadow, JJ Koczan, psychedelica, Steve Kille, The Obelisk, Three Kings

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