dark mark vs skeleton joe

Mark Lanegan and Joe Cardamone combine two songs from their ‘Dark Mark Vs Skeleton Joe’ album for “a surreal horror trip into the abyss.“

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Mark Lanegan and Joe Cardamone’s debut as Dark Mark Vs Skeleton Joe is raw and immediate, and their inspirations are just as arresting, with tales of guns, the pandemic and more.

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“The project is called Dark Mark vs. Skeleton Joe because we both have assumed these alter egos over the years,” says Cardamone. “The material we wanted to do together seemed to take well to the idea that our personas here are as if we’re now outcasts to our own creative selves.”

Known as Dark Mark vs. Skeleton Joe, Lanegan and Cardamone’s gothy, electronic collaboration is ”not like anything either one of us have done before.”