⋘"Last Call In Jonestown" is the title track for POLKADOT CADAVER's pending third full length album, due out through Razor To Wrist Records on May 14, 2013. On a personal note, I was an enormous fan of DOG FASHION DISCO prior to the band breaking up and was ecstatic when I learned that vocalist Todd Smith, guitarist Jasan Stepp, and drummer John Ensminger would go on to form a new group who played a similar style of avant-garde insanity. Polkadot Cadaver's debut record "Purgatory Dance Party" continued where Dog Fashion Disco left off, it was an absolute masterpiece. However, the band's second album "Sex Offender" was a massively disappointing effort and so I concluded the band had lost their spark.

However, now that the title track for "Last Call In Jonestown" as well as a second song from the album, called "Impure Thoughts" (link to the official video can be found below), have been released it's clear Polkadot Cadaver are back in full force! This is one of my personally most anticipated releases of 2013!

A number of really great pre-order packages are available through the band's new label, all of which we have links for in the section below so grab up a copy or bundle right now! Keep in mind, the band self-financed this album after they cut ties with their previous label Rotten Records and it seems as if that was the best direction they could have possibly taken! If you're a fan of any Mike Patton project, or the likes of SLEEPYTIME GORILLA MUSEUM, STOLEN BABIES, or other avant-garde metal, you'll love POLKADOT CADAVER as much as I do! Check this band out now if you never have before!!⋙

◊ ◊ ◊ ◊ ◊ BAND BIOGRAPHY & INFORMATION ◊ ◊ ◊ ◊ ◊

When Baltimore based alt-metal act Dog Fashion Disco came to an end, it wasn’t the end of frontman Todd Smith, guitarist Jasan Stepp and drummer John Ensminger’s musical output.

During the near decade the group spent in Dog Fashion Disco, Smith and his merry band of misfits would amass a loyal underground following of fans (dubbed the “mushroom cult”) through countless tours with the likes of Slayer, Mindless Self Indulgence, Nothingface and Lacuna Coil. Although Dog Fashion Disco never achieved commercial success, their musical legacy gained the respect of musical contemporaries like Serj Tankian of System of a Down (who made a guest appearance on Anarchists of Good Taste), Mushroomhead and American Head Charge, while the group’s music lives on through the internet and continues to create new members of the “mushroom cult” long after the band’s demise.

While Smith and company may have become sick of living the vagabond lifestyle that a touring metal band requires, the thought of giving up music entirely never even crossed their minds. Within mere months of their former outfits demise the group had created a new group, Polkadot Cadaver to unleash their schizophrenic musical madness.

“Jasan and I decided to start a studio band and Polkadot Cadaver started as shells of songs on Jasan’s computer. After we fleshed out the songs we pitched it Rotten Records, because we loved how they handled the last Dog Fashion Disco album,” says Smith about the formation of the group. “They immediately got behind us and as soon as received a recording budget we went to Wrightway Studios to work and complete the record. Polkadot Cadaver is very similar to Dog Fashion Disco stylistically. The songs are still very quirky and different from each other.” Recorded in the bowels of Baltimore with producer Steven Wright (Jimmie’s Chicken Shack, SR-71), Polkadot Cadaver’s debut album picks up right where Dog Fashion Disco left off. The brilliance of the band’s musical output lies within their ability to sonically shape shift like a musical chameleon that can adapt to any music style. “What’s The Worst Thing” blisters with thrashing Slayer like riffage and then spills into the soothing folk-pop melodies of “Chloroform Girl”. The album’s lyrical insanity the delivers homicidal blow to Polkadot Cadaver’s musical homicide, covering gamut of topics ranging from plane crashes, narcissistic models, Christ, the devil and good old Baltimore, MD.

After fulfilling their contractual duties with Rotten Records, The guys decides that they’d had enough of working for the man. Smith and Stepp have since started their own record label, called Razor To Wrist Records, and now record and release albums, all on their own. Every project they now have will be releasing albums under Razor To Wrist [Polkadot Cadaver, El-Creepo! (Todd’s Solo Project), Knives Out! (Super Group), and Deimos (Jasan’s Solo Project)]. For more info on Polkadot Cadaver and the rest of their happenings, be sure to check out RazorToWrist.com.


POLKADOT CADAVER DISCOGRAPHY:

Purgatory Dance Party (2007)
Wolf in Jesus Skin/Horse's Head Split 7" with Ideamen (2010)
Sex Offender (2011)
Last Call In Jonestown (2013)


CURRENT BAND LINEUP:

Todd Smith: Vocals, Guitar, Keyboards
Jasan Stepp: Guitar, keyboards, programming, cello
David Cullen: Bass, keyboards
Scott Radway: Live Drums
John "Sponge John Large Ass" Ensminger: Studio Drums


BOOKING AGENT: Alex Gilbert - agilbert@the3thirteen.com

CONTACT THE BAND: www.razortowrist.com/contact/