Before there were Moving Units, Year Future, and Ground Unicorn Horn, there was Chris Hathwell, who plays in all three and there was his great, doomed punk band The Festival of Dead Deer. They were great because the noise they made could melt steel and boil blood, and they were doomed because they reared up fast, spat out beautiful music, then vanished into the ether. Their album The Many Faces Of Mental Illness (threeoneg) gives us 14 faces of mental illness in 44:57 minutes of frantic, stained-to-nothing vocals...

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