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Dead Unicorn

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YELLOWSTONE SUPERVOLCANO has been repressed!
Contact us or come to a show if you'd like a copy!
NOW! ORDER YELLOWSTONE SUPERVOLCANO ONLINE AT CDBABY
The CD will also be available from our good friends at
Peterwalkee Records and Glacial Records
You can also buy it at Mark's Music Center in Kingston.
Check out more Dead Unicorn videos... BIO

If you knew everyone was going to die today, what would you do?

The signs of a coming mass extinction have never been more ubiquitous -- still, humankind remains largely ignorant to the inevitability of their own death, much less the entire species.

Zac Shaw (drums, vocals) and Paul Heath (bass, vocals) urge you to live as if the end times are near. Together they form the NY apocalyptic rock duo Dead Unicorn. With their complex excess of noise and melody, lyrics from the darkest comedy in the universe (our lives) and video projections that shock and awe, those who witness Dead Unicorn are not likely to forget their music or their message: Whatever you do on the last day of your life is probably what you should be doing more of in your normal, boring, everyday life.

Dead Unicorn sprang to action in the spring of 2005. A seven-album plan was drawn up, with each album representing an imminent apocalypse scenario. The project would take nearly two years to begin in earnest, but in February of 2007 the group formed a record label (Music for End Times) and released the opening salvo of their apocalypse awareness campaign: Code Red: Yellowstone Supervolcano.

Dealing with the cataclysmic effect of the imminent eruption of a supervolcano under Yellowstone National Park, the album was dispersed throughout the US during a tour to SxSW in March of 2007. The first pressing sold out (along with a pile of merch) in the summer, and in September the album was re-pressed on Music For End Times with the help of our friends at Peterwalkee Records and Glacial Records.

Dead Unicorn is seeing growing support for YSV on the internet, with critical acclaim popping up on blogs and podcasts, and has received great feedback from GarageBand.com, receiving numerous awards.

The band is now putting all their effort into recording and releasing their second album, Code Orange: Global Thermonuclear War, due out in the summer of 2008, with extensive touring to follow.

My Interests

Music:

Member Since: 3/1/2005
Band Website: deadunicorn.com
Band Members: Zac Shaw (singing drummer)
Paul Heath (screaming bassist)

Influences: apocalypse, armageddon, extinction level events, supervolcanos, global thermonuclear warfare, earthquakes, mega tsunamis, zombies, killer robots, rapture, meteors, famine, plague, doomsday lasers
Sounds Like: TEOTWAWKI
Record Label: Music for End Times / Glacial / Peterwalkee
Type of Label: Indie

My Blog

Dead Unicorn interviewed on the G-spot podcast

Dead Unicorn was interviewed by the esteemed Wes Unruh for the G-spot podcast at Alterati.com (the inside scoop on the outside culture.) It's pretty funny and entertaining, because of or despite the f...
Posted by Dead Unicorn on Fri, 08 Feb 2008 11:35:00 PST

Hyperfast Star Proven To Be Alien

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2008/01/080128113256.ht mScienceDaily (Jan. 29, 2008)  A young star is speeding away from the Milky Way so fast that astronomers have been puzzled by where it came...
Posted by Dead Unicorn on Tue, 29 Jan 2008 03:50:00 PST

Inside Chernobyls sarcophagus (video)

Horizon takes an look at the horror and effects of Chernobyl 10 years after the disaster. ...
Posted by Dead Unicorn on Sun, 23 Dec 2007 11:52:00 PST

Biggest supervolcano ever

An animation of an eruption by the Tvashtar Paterae volcanic region on the innermost of Jupiter's Galilean moons, Io. The ejecta plume is 330 km (205.1 mi) high, though only its uppermost ...
Posted by Dead Unicorn on Thu, 29 Nov 2007 05:28:00 PST

Did Volcanos Kill the Dinosaurs?

Special thanks to Albee in Warwick, NY for forwarding this to the End Times Institute...Instead of being driven to extinction by death from above, dinosaurs might have ultimately been doomed by death...
Posted by Dead Unicorn on Thu, 15 Nov 2007 04:42:00 PST

Where is DU? Knee-deep in the new album!

In case you're wondering why Dead Unicorn isn't playing many shows right now, it's because we're focusing on finishing the writing for our new album, tentatively titled "Global Thermonuclear War (Code...
Posted by Dead Unicorn on Thu, 01 Nov 2007 08:08:00 PST

Volcano Red Alert in Java, Indonesia! This is not a test!

LINKMore than 100000 people within 100km and significant eruption is occurring or explosive eruption is expected at any time (alert level 5). By Heri Retnowati KEDIRI, Indonesia, Oct 17 (Reuters) - F...
Posted by Dead Unicorn on Wed, 17 Oct 2007 03:38:00 PST

Awesomest YSV review yet

This guy really gets it: The Plugg: Dead Unicorn - Yellowstone Supervolcano
Posted by Dead Unicorn on Wed, 10 Oct 2007 07:07:00 PST

Germs taken to space come back deadlier

By THE ASSOCIATED PRESSWASHINGTON (AP) -- It sounds like the plot for a scary B-movie: Germs go into space on a rocket and come back stronger and deadlier than ever. Except, it really happened.The ger...
Posted by Dead Unicorn on Tue, 25 Sep 2007 12:24:00 PST

Video: Feds train clergy to "quell dissent" during martial law

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Posted by Dead Unicorn on Tue, 21 Aug 2007 03:33:00 PST