The Dagons

2012-01-17T09:02:00.000-08:00

2011-12-29T18:45:00.000-08:00

latest news - Fangoria Interview with The Dagons

There's an interview with The Dagons in issue # 308 of FANGORIA magazine (The"Italian Horror" themed issue)

You can find the issue at Fangoria's website here. Read The Dagons interview below

2011-07-10T22:38:00.000-07:00

Review of The Dagons "Upon The Dull Earth" in Dominion Magazine (U.K.)

THE DAGONS  'Upon the Dull Earth'

At first glance, a male-female guitar and drum duo such as The Dagons may superficially be dismissed as a White Stripes clone. However The Dagons are a completely different kettle of fish altogether employing a psychedelic slant to their garage-goth sound, the end result of which is a style that is just as seductive as it is gritty.
The album continually pushes at the envelope as to what the duo can produce with their stripped back setup. They never sound too thin, or contrariwise like they're hiding under layer-upon-layer of overdubs. All the while the band's vintage feeling production gives the tracks an almost vinyl warmth and takes the rougher edge off the multiple effects. More importantly though, is the distinctly individual sound of each track, which seems to be a dying practice these days. From the sumptuous sitar-jangles of 'Black Alphabet', to the surf-rock of 'Gone' and on to the moribund deathrock of 'The Switch' the band displays an aptitude for blending genres. Throw Karie Jacobson's distinctive vocals into the mix and you have a winning formula.
'Upon The Dull Earth' is a rough sounding album in a lot of places. But it is in no way unmistakable because of it. There is a charm and honesty to the band that feels like it is transported from honing the songs on the live circuit. And even though the album covers fifteen songs, the longest is only four-minutes so it doesn't wear out its welcome either.
- Sean Palfrey

Link to review: http://truecultheavymetal.com/index.php/dominion/2011/07/06/review-the-dagons-upon-the-dull-earth

2011-06-16T22:28:00.000-07:00

Review in Stomp and Stammer of the new album from The Dagons - "Upon the Dull Earth"

The Dagons - Upon the Dull Earth
~ Contributed by Gregory Nicoll (June 2011)

The Dagons (their name rhymes with "pagans") are a goth-punk duo who get their goth from H.P. Lovecraft and pluck their punk from The Flat Duo Jets. Upon the Dull Earth is their fifth album of cleverly crafted creepshow soundscapes and, like its predecessors, comes laden with enough distortion to rattle all the bats from your belfry in frighteningly short order.

Above all else, Dull Earth is an impressively paced cycle of songs. Most musicians who conjure up such darkly disturbing scenes tend to linger on them far too long, but vocalist/guitarist Karie Jacobson and drummer Drew Kowalski always exercise admirable economy, rarely reaching (much less exceeding) the three-minute mark before they conclude each composition and shift the mood into some other, equally unsettling direction for the next number.

For example, on the album-opening "Hidden Friends," Jacobson fires off ferocious fuzz guitar from a lost dimension orbiting between a Davie Allan biker soundtrack and the early Jesus and Mary Chain, while Kowalski pounds out a thumping drumbeat for a tribal dance around a torch-lit altar.
   It's over quite quickly, at which point the gruesome twosome slithers into the slow, quiet "Rose-Patterned Walls," which they allow to unspool with the studied restraint of a Victorian ghost story.

Jacobson's voice is equally at home in the child-like nursery rhyme rant of "I Am Not Nice" or the doomy and menacing "The Party," on which she sounds like a high priestess of the Esoteric Order presiding over a massive human sacrifice.

It's a simple formula of contrasts which Dull Earth mixes up like fine absinthe and serves in a 15-piece matched set of crystal skulls.

Something relatively new for The Dagons is the addition of an eerie Eastern sitar, plucked with pernicious pride by drummer Kowalski on several of these songs, such as the dizzying "Blank Alphabet" and the swirling "Zero Years," a collective tribal chant for residents of the 21st Century. His sitar's final nod comes in the madhouse instrumental "Albatross," which serves as closing credits for this groovy ghoul show and proves pointedly that Upon the Dull Earth, wickedly giving lie to its title, in fact makes this planet a most fiery and exciting place to inhabit.

link: stompandstammer.com

2011-06-09T22:14:00.000-07:00

The Dagons

"in a nutshell… Old school, rock 'n' roll psychedelia from beyond the grave... Karie Jacobson's narcotic voice sends you into a semi-conscious state; her hypnotic poetry mazes its way through damp, murky textures and restless percussion. This dreamlike state sets your imagination ablaze and is both calming and incredibly unsettling - so much so, it's almost like experiencing a 'bad trip'.

In fact, The Dagons' music is very much like a good horror movie; it's dark and discomforting, and yet you can't seem to look away."

more at: Deaf Ambitions

2011-06-06T22:30:00.000-07:00

Video from The Dagons record release show on Friday. Filmed by AnarchyJuiceTV

2011-06-06T14:14:00.000-07:00

L.A. Beat preview of The Dagons record release show:

2011-05-29T13:18:00.000-07:00

click here to read original article

The Dagons, Gabriel Hart & the Fourth Wall, Sioux City Pete 

Fri., June 3, 9:00pm                                                                                                                                      

The Bordello

Price: $5

by Falling James

After stints in San  Francisco and New Orleans (which they escaped mere hours before Katrina  hit), the Dagons have been based in Los Angeles for several years,  although they rarely play their adopted hometown.

 But the coed duo are  here to celebrate the release of their new album, Upon the Dull Earth,  with a set of baleful goth-folk-punk chansons whose fuzzily mesmerizing  exoticism should provide the perfect soundtrack for this venue's  decadently swanky ambiance. 

 Singer Karie Jacobson's blurry guitar riffs  merge with Drew Kowalski's febrile sitar melodies, creating a strangely  intoxicating brew that evokes the Stones' "Paint It Black" and the  Velvet Underground's "Venus in Furs" as sung by a nightmare-addled  Sylvia Plath. 

Better believe it when Jacobson confides in an eerie,  childlike voice, "I am not nice but I am true."

By Falling James ~ 6/01/2011

2011-05-27T07:39:00.000-07:00

one week from today!

The Dagons Record Release Show
FRIDAY JUNE 3
9:30 pm --- 2 am
With: The Dagons, Sioux City Pete, and Gabriel Hart and The Fourth Wall
Release Show for The Dagons new album, "Upon The Dull Earth"
at Bordello Bar (map below)

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2011-05-21T15:08:00.000-07:00

The Zero Years....

We are living in the zero years
plenty to prove, plenty to fear
we are living in a blank in time
no one knowing what they will be named

You can't help it you are seeing signs
that we're living in the end of times
then the only thing that can go wrong
is if the end doesn't come along

We are living in the zero years
plenty to prove, plenty to fear
It's the same in every town I'm in
Zeros stretching over everything
we are living in a blank in time

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2011-05-05T00:28:00.000-07:00

2011-04-14T20:53:00.000-07:00

The release show for The Dagons new album, "Upon The Dull Earth," will be on Friday, June 3 at Bordello in downtown Los Angeles. More news soon!

2011-04-13T18:14:00.001-07:00

The Dagons fifth album, Upon The Dull Earth! Coming soon...

Track Listing:
1. Hidden Friends
2. Rose-Patterned Walls
3. I Am Not Nice
4. Blank Alphabet
5. Ribbons
6. The Party
7. Gone
8. Unreal Marshes
9. Carnival Wearing Thin
10. The Bee Ride
11. Lucky/Unlucky
12. The Switch
13. Zero Years
14. Kassandra
15. Albatross