Artist: Dax Riggs Album: We Sing of Only Blood or Love (2007)
Genre: blues rock (or what I call “death blues”)
Sounds like: deadboy & The Elephantmen (his former band),  The Black Keyes (kind of not really)

Tracks: (recommended ***)
Demon Tied to a Chair in My Brain – 2:15
Didn’t Know Yet What I’d Know When I Was Bleedin’ – 2:41
Night Is The Notion – 2:40
Radiation Blues – 2:34
Terrors of Nightlife – 2:39
Truth in the Dark – 2:43
A Spinning Song – 2:19
Ourobouros – 1:42
Living Is Suicide – 1:57 ***
Forgot I Was Alive – 2:24
Ghost Movement – 2:54 ***
Dog-headed Whore – 2:09 ***
Wall Of Death – 2:34 ***
Dream Or Be Dead – 1:41
Scarlett of Heaven nor Hell – 1:43 ***
If All Death Is as Bright – 2:18

If Rufus Wainwright was possessed by the devil, his voice would sound something like Dax Riggs, former frontman of doom metal band Acid Bath and several others.  This album was suppose to be the last of deadboy & The Elephantmen, and actually features several band members, but he ended up releasing it under his own name.  It’s a slightly rearranged formulae of his folk-metal-blues-punk ode to death.

Grade: B/B+

I also recommend checking out his sexilicious Cohen cover.

–Alice