The BLACK DIAMOND HEAVIES + 2 SICK MONKEYS + RATS RUINED MY BRAIN

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The BLACK DIAMOND HEAVIES + 2 SICK MONKEYS + RATS RUINED MY BRAIN

"This Tennessee-Hailing Duo have produced a debut of filthy Southern blues that makes the Black Keys seem like choirboys" - NME

Tennessee's Black Diamond Heavies are a towering example of a real two-man soul and blues freakshow.

Singing keyboardist John Wesley Myers has the fervour of the righteous and blessed. Clad in boots, faded jeans and white vest with long hair flowing, Myers is every inch the diabolical cult leader from Trailer Park Mansions, Texas.

Veins bulge from face and arms and there's a palpable intense aura as he pumps the keys like a possessed Pentecostal preacher channelling Ray Charles through the medium of Tom Waits.

Drummer Van Campbell steers the crowd through the sea of grinding blues with instinctive and free-flowing rhythm patterns, providing an ebb and flow from despondency to redemptive exultation.

If it is true that Myers is the son of a preacher man then this helps explain the gospel feel to the music but, as with the best blues music, there is a whole heap of dirt track dust in there.

The organ distorts with the drama of Deep Purple, The Doors and Iron Butterfly and the gritty delinquency and devilry of Monster Magnet.

Miss this at your peril!

2 Sick Monkeys, small outfit…BIG sound, old school Punk from the maddest duo on the Planet!

Rats Ruined my Brain, a mash-up of New-Wave and underground pop.

http://www.blackdiamondheavies.com/
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