# SKELETON JOE (a.k.a. Joe Cardamone) Returns With New Video…”BL3$$3D”

- Link: https://www.nyrdcast.com/skeleton-joe-a-k-a-joe-cardamone-returns-with-new-video-bl33d/
- Published: 2022-10-10T11:30:00-05:00
- Author: Eugene Tierney

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**SKELETON JOE a.k.a. Joe Cardamone**
**(**_**The Icarus Line, Dark Mark vs. Skeleton
Joe**_**)****Returns with New Single/Video“[#BL3$$3D](https://reybee.us13.list-manage.com/track/click?u=f67b4587af2b2ef9aa80ed984&id=ae56af053e&e=615f2b8493)“

**Playing LA’s **_**The Greek Theatre **_**This Sunday (Oct. 9th)
with The Cult,
Black Rebel Motorcycle Cluband King Woman ([ticket link](https://reybee.us13.list-manage.com/track/click?u=f67b4587af2b2ef9aa80ed984&id=8988decaa0&e=615f2b8493))

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**Joe Cardamone a.k.a. “Skeleton Joe”**

**OCTOBER 7, 2022 (Los Angeles, CA) — Joe Cardamone **never thought he would perform
live again.  The founding member of post-hardcore band** The Icarus Line** and partner
with the late **Mark Lanegan** in the death disco band **Dark Mark vs. Skeleton 
Joe**, Cardamone was staring mortality in the face. The tragic deaths of his friend
and guitarist **Alvin DeGuzman** (_guitarist, The Icarus Line_) in 2017 from cancer
and the death of Lanegan this past February left him in a dark place musically. “
After losing Mark and Alvin, I kinda started thinking I might not perform live much
more,” he explains.  “I lost two people that made me feel protected on stage… both
brothers.”

But his creativity found a way to work through the pain and grief with the release
of “[**#BL3$$3D**](https://reybee.us13.list-manage.com/track/click?u=f67b4587af2b2ef9aa80ed984&id=c24ad879d3&e=615f2b8493),”
his first new song since the passing of Lanegan and the end of their Dark Mark vs.
Skeleton Joe project which released an album in October of 2021.  “I wrote #BL3$
$3D a few weeks ago in anticipation of performing live again,” he says.  “It reminds
me of my old band without sounding like a band at all.”

#BL3$$3D

[⌊#BL3$$3D⌉⌊#BL3$$3D⌉
Watch this video on YouTube

**Skeleton Joe “#BL3$$#D”**

A dark and brutal brooding banger, it retains the essences of both of his previous
bands: the manic energy of The Icarus Line and the pulsating dark techno of Dark
Mark vs. Skeleton Joe. “#BL3$$3D” had a rather abrupt genesis that involved another
important person to him: **Ian Astbury** of The Cult.  “Ian asked me to do the Greek
show in LA –  an offer I couldn’t refuse” he explains, referring to a show that 
is happening this weekend in Los Angeles featuring **The Cult, Black Rebel Motorcycle
Club, King Woman **and Joe’s alter ego, **Skeleton Joe **(tickets available **[HERE](https://reybee.us13.list-manage.com/track/click?u=f67b4587af2b2ef9aa80ed984&id=2ece938228&e=615f2b8493)**).“
Ian, much like Mark [Lanegan], has acted as a guardian angel in my life.  He’s looked
out for me in ways he really didn’t have to.”

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The accompanying video echoes the song’s dark and sinister undertones viscerally
with a bloody alien birth and a cast of broken characters straight out of a film
by director David Cronenberg (_The Brood, Videodrome_). “The video was made with
the [American Primitive](https://reybee.us13.list-manage.com/track/click?u=f67b4587af2b2ef9aa80ed984&id=d5c01e09fd&e=615f2b8493)
team who all jumped in head first to bring the American family to life,” he explains
about the production team who has also done videos by Queen Kwong and Prayers. “
We watch our heroes die multiple deaths.  We second guess our fantasies of the people
who helped shape our lives.  The current era is messy. The lines are blurry and 
so that is how the music and the visual comes on.”

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**“#BL3$$3D” Single Artwork**

With a fresh lease on his creative life restored, “Skeleton Joe” might have gotten
a jumpstart to ease him back into music.  For him, things seem to be happening at
an accelerated pace, but that doesn’t fill him with dread like it did after Lanegan
passed away earlier this year. This songs seems to have reawakened that part of 
him. “#BL3$$3D  came out pretty quickly. When a song comes out as wiry and fucked
as this one has, it falls right into the Skeleton Joe alias,” he replies rather 
enigmatically. “The shadow self is not the guy that has to get up and feed the dogs
and wash dishes.”

**“#BL3$$#D”** is released today, October 7^(th) and is available at [https://sparta.ffm.to/blessed](https://reybee.us13.list-manage.com/track/click?u=f67b4587af2b2ef9aa80ed984&id=b65f378e24&e=615f2b8493).
Skeleton Joe Cardamone performs this weekend at Los Angeles’ _The Greek Theatre_
with featuring **The Cult, Black Rebel Motorcycle Club, **and **King Woman**.

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