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The Great Tyrant

About Me

upcoming split 12" with Human Anomaly (ex Noothgrush, see top friends) on Rescued From Life records.our new 2 song 7" is now available locally at Good Records and Recycled Books and online at Aquarius Records. with it comes a CD-R EP of three additional songs plus our cover of Magma's Weidorje.finished what is planned to be our first full length.

My Interests

Music:

Member Since: 9/13/2005
Band Members: Daron Beck - vocals, keyboards, synthesizers; Jon Teague - drums, synthesizers, vocals; Tommy Atkins - bass
Influences: Nina Simone, Shub Niggurath, Goblin, Scott Walker, Butthole Surfers, Art Bears, Il Baletto di Bronzo, Arthur Brown, Boris, Fabio Frizzi, Tom Jones, Man is the Bastard, John and Alice Coltrane, Swans, Angelo Badalamenti, Jacques Brel, This Heat, Serge Gainsbourg, Prince, Austin Osman Spare, Georges Bataille, Emil Cioran, William Burroughs, Lautreamont, Charles Baudelaire
Sounds Like:
Record Label: Dada Drumming
Type of Label: Indie

My Blog

The Green Lodge-Part 2

Part 2
Posted by on Sun, 09 Nov 2008 17:36:00 GMT

The Green Lodge


Posted by on Sun, 09 Nov 2008 17:21:00 GMT

review of 7"

from Aquarius RecordsIt's been ages since we've heard from Yeti, the killer bombastic space/psych/prog rock band from Texas. The Great Tyrant features two of the fomer Yetis and if anything is even mo...
Posted by on Sat, 06 Sep 2008 05:54:00 GMT

GUTTERTH COMPILATION ONE- local music comp featuring the great tyrant and several friends

get on board
Posted by on Fri, 25 Jul 2008 15:49:00 GMT

review of the Doublewide show, from WeShotJR

We Shot JR After we watched The Great Tyrant shatter eardrums and hurt feelings at Art Prostitute last month, we vowed to make every effort to see them the next time they played a show anywhere...
Posted by on Mon, 05 Feb 2007 15:48:00 GMT

Fort Worth Weekly, Oct. 11, 2006

Like pimpin.., in the immortal words of Big Daddy Kane, noir prog-rock ain..t easy. One intentionally ironic note or pose could turn an entire song .. possibly an entire performance .. into shtick. Bu...
Posted by on Sat, 14 Oct 2006 15:30:00 GMT

Dallas Observer, June 8th, 2006

At Mwanza Dover's final Mazinga Phaser II performance, it's unfortunate--but somehow appropriate--that a former Dover bandmate stole the show. Headliner the Great Tyrant, fronted by Daron Beck (former...
Posted by on Sat, 14 Oct 2006 15:29:00 GMT

Dallas Observer, Apr 27, 2006

Acid Mothers Temple, The Antarcticans, The Great Tyrant Saturday, April 29, at Hailey's---------------------------------------------------- --------------------------------------------------- Japan's m...
Posted by on Sat, 14 Oct 2006 15:27:00 GMT