DARK MARK vs SKELETON JOE (feat Mark Lanegan and Joe Cardamone) Release Debut Album

“… the sinister dance music of Dark Mark vs. Skeleton Joe is new territory for both the singer and his collaborator…”  – Rolling Stone

“Dark Mark Vs. Skeleton Joe is a dark electronic-driven album propelled by haunting digital textures and the juxtaposing warmth of Lanegan’s signature gravelly, throaty vocals.” – Spill Magazine

“… the duo’s new music breaks virgin ground for both men, occupying a sonic niche we’ve decided to call ‘gothic death disco.” – Louder Sound

“Here we have a team-up from legends of the music world, bringing a new kind of energy to dance music with a gothic twist.” – SoundSphere Magazine

“The tracks embrace an experimental electronic sound, spilling with beautiful darkness.” – God Is In The TV

“A drastic leap into uncharted territory for both artists. It’s a dizzying, distortion-tinted techno thumper.” – NME

“Bleak, pulsing intensity… it’s familiar ground for both artists, but with a distinctively new twist.” – The AV Club

“A recipe for greatness.” – Pancakes & Whiskey

DARK MARK vs. SKELETON JOE
Featuring Mark Lanegan (Screaming Trees) and Joe Cardamone (The Icarus Line)
Release Electronic and Experimental Self-Titled Album

Out Today via Rare Bird/Kitten Robot Records

October 15, 2021 (Los Angeles) –  Today, DARK MARK VS SKELETON JOE (Featuring Mark Lanegan of Screaming Trees and Joe Cardamone of The Icarus Line) are proud to release their debut self-titled full-length album, out now on Spotify and Apple Musicvia Rare Bird/Kitten Robot Records. In addition, you can pre-order vinyl for the record here. 

The record was preceded by the single “No Justice,” which Consequence described as “A pulsing electronic sound paired with Lanegan’s imitably deep vocal delivery. Minimal dancefloor beats and synthesizers percolate beneath the grunge veteran’s mix of spoken word and singing.” Meanwhile, BrooklynVegan noted the track was “A strutting electro-goth banger.”

DARK MARK VS SKELETON JOE

1. Living Dead
2. No Justice
3. Lost Animals
4. Hiraeth 
5. Lay Me Down
6. No Way Out
7. Turning In Reverse
8. Burned
9. Crime
10. Sanctified
11. Traction
12. Red Morning Sun
13. Cold Summer
14. Skeleton Joe Maifesto
15. Sunday Night 230 AM
16. Basement Door

A project born from mutual respect, Dark Mark vs. Skeleton Joe (DMvSJ) mines electronic music and unearths an experimental sound for both of them. A prolific artist and author, Lanegan has collaborated with a host of bands and musicians, including UNKLE, Neko Case, The Duke Spirit and Queens of the Stone Age among many others. And while he’s worked many legendary acts over his career, DMvsSJ marks a new band for Lanegan, not a guest spot or featured artist.  “The fact that it’s not like anything either one of us have done before is what makes this so interesting for me,” explains Lanegan. “When you have done as much stuff as Joe and I, you have to constantly search for the different and challenging to keep yourself engaged.”

“The project is called Dark Mark vs. Skeleton Joe because we both have assumed these alter egos over the years,” says Cardamone about the origins of the project. “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.”

“We were originally intending to release it earlier, but with the pandemic and other things going on in the world, it just hadn’t seemed appropriate,” adds Lanegan. “Now, we both feel more comfortable creeping this material into the open.”

Dark Mark vs. Skeleton Joe is Mark Lanegan and Joe Cardamone. Their self-titled full-length record is out now via  Rare Bird / Kitten Robot Records.