Album Notes

Nathan Wade & The Dark Pioneers are Seattle's purveyors of apocalyptic Americana, honing their rootsy, fire & brimstone-laden tunes deep inside an abandoned fall-out shelter. Sometimes you have to consider the worst-case-scenario in order to fully appreciate all there is to lose in this world, and whether it's religious rapture or environmental disaster that Nathan Wade's lyrics foretell, it's with dark humor and a strong sense of song craft that the band elevates their music above the doom & gloom and into the light.
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For 'The Gospel Of Rust,' the band once again teamed up with producer Brad Zeffren (Star Anna & The Laughing Dogs, Kristen Ward, Hurricane Chaser), who not only recorded and mixed the album, but helped them wrestle their ambitious first long-player to the ground. The diverse, technicolor wasteland hinted at on their debut EP, 'The Chroma Session,' comes to explosive fruition here, so full of shades and moods that the album clips along like an apocalyptic mix tape.

In the lost gospel according to Nathan Wade & The Dark Pioneers, Cormac McCarthy, Mad Max, and Led Zeppelin scarcely make for strange bedfellows, and their hymns are filled to the treacherous brim with lacerating blues pounders like Lake Of Fire and I Am The Rust; the cinematic country-noir of This World (Already Over) and Weeds Grow Around; and driving, doomsday rockers like Gotta Get Right and Golgotha Drone. If Armageddon requires a soundtrack such as this, we're in for one hell of a finale.