Okay so murder by death are a four piece rock band from Indiana and yes they took there name from the 76 comedy movie. Descriptions of them range from punk rock to alt country but the only word that really describes them is Western. I used to have an early concept album by them that was about the devil waging war on a small town in Mexico but checking my audio folder it seems to have disappeared into the ether. Not to worry the album i still have is far better produced and overall a superior album despite not having the astonishingly good song "devil in Mexico".
In Bocca al Lupo is the name of the album and comes from an italian phrase meaning "into the mouth of the wolf" according to no lesser source than wikipedia. The themes of this album are sin, redemption and guilt with every track tying nicely to those themes. Brother and Shiola are probably the stand out tracks with brother being a rock song about the bonds of brotherhood being stronger than the law and shiola having to my ear a fairly dead-on job at pretending to be johnny cash.
Murder by death - In Bocca al Lupo
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