Taste Test: The Dead Century recount the mystery around ‘Bombay Beach’

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Bombay Beach was once a thriving resort, but now, only a savage wasteland remains. A seemingly random turn of natural events in 1905 resulted in California’s largest inland sea, and in the mid-19th Century, it became a developer hub for commerce. Yet Mother Nature had something entirely different in mind. The ecosystem began to crumble in the ’70s, and what was left is a rustic landscape depleted of most life forms. The 2010 Federal Census indicated a meager popular of 295, so someone is apparently making use of the carcass.

Now that you’ve gotten a little bit of historical context, Minneapolis blues-rock band The Dead Century‘s appropriately-titled “Bombay Beach” will make a bit of sense. It’s a dangerously grimy piece of music, as lead singer Nick Check snaps his jaws and snarls his lips across the story’s discarded scraps. His retelling is even more sinister, a chorus of electric guitars and his bandmates Austin Peterson (lead guitar), Robert Muehlbauer (drums) and JP Check (bass guitar) circling as ravenous vultures in the scorching sun’s path. “Jesus came walking down cross that Salton Sea,” Check howls. The band peppers in a Biblical reference to further underscore the unholiness of the land itself, trapped and tormented. It’s a gritty and visceral and alarming performance that should, if we’re lucky, position the band for next-level stardom.

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