A Portland trio that played stripped-down, uneasy rock fixated on mortality from 1987 onward.
For a quick sense of their sound, try 'Killing Me' or 'Walking On My Grave', both are relentless and stripped of any polish.
Dead Moon's sound was raw, minimal, and often fixated on mortality, with songs like 'Walking On My Grave' capturing that relentless, uneasy mood. Their records, especially tracks like 'Killing Me', still turn up in the collections of people who like their rock and roll lean and haunted. They never broke through commercially, but they developed a devoted following in the underground.
Dead Moon formed in Portland in 1987 around Fred Cole, his wife Toody, and drummer Andrew Loomis. Their debut album 'In the Graveyard' came out in 1988, and they kept at it through the 1990s, releasing seven studio albums in total. Fred Cole died in 2009, which effectively ended Dead Moon.
Keep it compact: a lyric you come back to, a live memory, or the part of the catalog you would point someone toward first.
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