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The Nightshade Family

Deep Harm To The Thief!!!

About Me

Hailing from the darkest edges of the forest, The Nightshade Family is a duo composed of The Deadly Mandrake (vocals, keyboard, accoridan and guitar).Benjamin Holt (vocals, banjo, guitar and percussion). The Nightshade Family plies a trade that is equal parts Pre-Berlin caberet, Appalachian folk music, and post-modern rock. Their album "Helping Hands" is a haunted yet blackly humerous journey through the deepest recesses of twenty-first century life. Set against a backdrop of small towns and city streets, "Helping Hands" contains a variety of tales about exploding cabins, buried bones of Lovecraftian creatures, voices from floorboards, and widowed dancers. Rounding out the instrumental ensemble on the albumis Brian Kendrick (drums),Chris Howard and Charles Pacheco (guitar and bass). "Helping Hands" is the debut offering from The Nightshade Family, previously known for their equally raucaous and poignant live show, which combines theatre and visceral energy for a truly unique experience.
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Music:

Member Since: 10/19/2005
Band Website: cathedralrow.com
Band Members: The Mandrake, S.O.G., Chris Howard, Chucc P.
Influences: Joy Division, Kurt Weill, The BHP, Boyd Henson, Red House Painters, H.P. Lovecraft (the author, not the band), Neutral Milk Hotel, Brotha Lynch Hung, Radiohead, Tom Waits, Death Metal Polka, J.S. Bach
Sounds Like: The Squid watching the circus outside the black forest.
Type of Label: Indie

My Blog

New album coming! Pre-orders available!!!

We have completed "Helping Hands," our new album and are currently taking pre-orders. $12.99 includes shipping. We are only accepting checks or money orders at this time. The album comes with a beauti...
Posted by The Nightshade Family on Fri, 25 Apr 2008 01:02:00 PST

Screwed And Chopped Album

As soon as our album is wrapped up, we are making a screwed and chopped version of the album for kids in the hood and shit like that. We are considering getting some of our big homies from the undergr...
Posted by The Nightshade Family on Fri, 04 Jan 2008 11:53:00 PST

Recording Completed!!!!

Dear Loved Ones,Recording for the new Nightshade Family album is COMPLETE!!!It is being mixed and mastered this month!This would not have been possible without our esteemed colleague, The Process.Prof...
Posted by The Nightshade Family on Thu, 13 Sep 2007 01:56:00 PST

New album!

Dear loved ones,    The Helping Hands album is completely written and demos are finished!We are heading into the studio to begin actual tracking on the 20th of June. Cover art should be...
Posted by The Nightshade Family on Wed, 14 Jun 2006 10:41:00 PST