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Love Gang Premiere “Dead Man’s Game” Video; New Album Coming in 2021

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Well, the poker game doesn’t work out all that well for Love Gang, but the cliffside flute is pretty ace. The video for the opening title-track of the Denver four-piece’s debut album, Dead Man’s Game (review here), has a visual grit to match the classic crunch in its guitar and organ, and somewhere between Motörhead‘s surge, Radio Moscow‘s blues, Deep Purple‘s winding proto-prog and Tull‘s embrace of the woodwind section, you get four minutes of brash heavy gallop, propulsive, catchy and freewheeling in the sense of having a badass van with curtains and magic sunglasses that make them see everything in shades of orange and brown.

I gotta give respect to Love Gang for lugging their gear up what looks like the hillside where Kirk fought the Gorn (it’s not; that was Vasquez Rocks in CA, duh), and particularly in that regard to Leo Muñoz, who not only takes that flute solo, but brought his organ along as well and jams out with the rest of the band, guitarist/vocalist Kameron Wentworth, bassist Grady O’Donnell and drummer Shaun GoodwinDead Man’s Game took a more forward, proto-metallic charge than the band’s 2016 self-titled EP (review here), but those elements were still there in songs like “Don’t Trust a Snake” and the jammy closer “Endless Road,” while early cut “Heavy Metal Thunder” backed “Dead Man’s Game” and preceded “Wasted Again” as an electric and scene-setting opening salvo.

Oh yeah, and between those two ends there’s a bunch of asskickery too. Love Gang will reportedly hit the studio early next year, which tells me they’ve got a bunch of new material close to if not ready to roll out. Given the force with which Dead Man’s Game — and indeed, the song “Dead Man’s Game” — is delivered, I wonder how not being able to play live for the bulk of 2020 will affect those songs, as well as how they might expand on the rather significant aesthetic statement they made with the debut. Something to look forward to, basically.

And in the meantime, the stream of Dead Man’s Game is that the bottom of this post and you can check out the premiere of the “Dead Man’s Game” video below, which rules. It just rules. You’re not going to regret spending four minutes watching it.

Enjoy:

Love Gang, “Dead Man’s Game” official video premiere

“Dead Man’s Game” was filmed in Southern Colorado by Javier Armendariz and looks like something out of a western B-movie with all the classic tropes of gunslingers, saloons, whiskey and poker games gone awry. The video was edited by Cristian Vega and harkens back to old Beat-Club videos with plenty of psychedelic imagery flashing behind as the band rips along at full tilt.

THE BAND: Love Gang is a 4-piece heavy rock n’ roll group from Denver, Colorado, USA. Their sound is rock ‘n roll at its’ core with bits of psychedelia thrown in for good measure. Propelled by wailing guitars and overdriven organ, Love Gang holds nothing back, each song going full-speed ahead full of blues boogie and hard-hitting rock ‘n roll. The band was formed in late 2015 with Kam Wentworth on guitar/vocals, Grady O’Donnell on bass guitar, Leo Muñoz on organ/flute, and Shaun Goodwin on drums. Following a 10-show tour supporting Wolfmother in 2018, Love Gang self-released their debut LP ‘Dead Man’s Game’ in October 2019 under the moniker Colfax Records. They will be recording their second full-length album in early 2021.

Love Gang are:
Kam Wentworth – Guitar, Vocals
Leo Muñoz – Organ, Flute, Saxophone
Grady O’Donnell – Bass Guitar
Shaun Goodwin – Drums

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