The Chairman Dances | en

The roots of SHADOWDANCES reach the year of 1991. Previously known as CONSCIOUS ROT, the band was quite known in the worlds underground streams, mostly for their cassette album The Soil, which featured extreme, technical, yet melodic and original death metal, released through Spanish FIGHT ZONE PROD. in 1994. In autumn of 1995 a huge change took place and turned it all into a whole new dimension. The music has gotten darker and more emotional and became as personal as never before. And thats when SHADOWDANCES was actually born. Juodas, the drumming vocalist, actually the only one member left from...

One year after the release of their critically heralded A Promise, Philly art-rockers The Chairman Dances are back with Michael and the Prophetess, a song cycle steeped in biblical language and set in a fictionalized 1950s era Brooklyn. Upping the ante from previous efforts, the album includes an arsenal of strings and brass that spin out recurring melodies, mirroring the narrative and giving a sense of wholeness and depth to the work. The crystalline production, too, is an advancement and a step toward the pop idiom, which is fitting as Michael and the Prophetess finds the quartet moving ever-closer toward...