Haunted George - American Crow

Weird George. Uncle Ya Ya. Skullface George. Graverobber Steven. He sknown by many aliases. Haunted George, under his Christian name StevePallow, was a member of The Beguiled, Satan s Cheerleaders and TheNecessary Evils in the 90s. Around the turn of the century, he retired fromsociety to the Mojave Desert, where he spends his time building caskets, collectingexotic roadkill, making podcasts that have to be heard to be believedand creating nightmarish music. Exploring the one-man band format out of sheer necessity, he has recorded dozens of songs (many of which are abstract/noise recordings under the name Snuff Maximus) on a 1970s-era mono cassetterecorder with a condenser mic. His compositions are creepy dirges that call to mind bits of American folklore, the extra terrestrial, the supernaturaland murder. In other words, a bad trip. To date he has put out two albums of home recordings, Panther Howl and Pile o Meat, on the Hook or Crooklabel, as well a handful of singles. About two years ago, Haunted George added ex-Necessary Evil Jimmy Hole to the band and started making more regular live appearances. His music remains sinister and unsettling, though it now has more swing and rocks harder. The decision was made to enter a real studio to put down his latest batch of songs with his new, expanded line-up. The result is American Crow: Fifteen tracks dealing with witches, decomposition, murder, death, donkeys, buzzards and roosters. In the hands of lesser talents, such subject matter would come off as kitchy or contrived, but Haunted George is the real deal. His music is a paranoid, altogether disturbed aural hallucination each drum thud the lockstep of a weary fella who s lost himself in the twilight ofthe uninhabited desert, every space between beats a sparse landscape devoid of humanity, rife with fear and exaggerated panic. This is the only horror rock that matters. Latest full-length album from former member of The Beguiled, Satan s Cheerleaders and The Necessary Evils, Proper studio recording with new two piece line-up...

PRESS: Haunted George s music rings with a doggerel atmosphere, a recordingvalue that rivals an old beaten transistor and a mood where getting your soulsucked out of your eye sockets by a roadkill coyote under the spell of a poltergeistmight be a good time. Victim of Time Considering the other-worldly, dramatically sinister persona... you reallywant to believe there s a grizzled Jim Thompson protagonist toiling away asa shut-in one-man band somewhere out in the middle of the Mojave Desert.And in fact, that s mostly actually the case. All Music Guide

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