{"id":18827,"date":"2020-03-10T08:35:21","date_gmt":"2020-03-10T13:35:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thebozho.com\/?p=18827"},"modified":"2020-03-16T14:34:40","modified_gmt":"2020-03-16T19:34:40","slug":"after-20-years-murder-by-death-still-explores-the-dark","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thebozho.com\/after-20-years-murder-by-death-still-explores-the-dark\/","title":{"rendered":"After 20 years, Murder by Death still explores the dark"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On their 2018 album <em>The Other Shore<\/em>, <a href=\"https:\/\/murderbydeath.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Murder by Death<\/a> gets lost in space.<\/p>\n<p>The Kentucky-via-Indiana band \u2014\u00a0who will perform at a sold-out Majestic Theatre on <a href=\"https:\/\/majesticmadison.com\/event\/murder-by-deaths-20th-anniversary\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">March 13<\/a> \u2014 has long been a fan of the fantastical, from their gothic imagery to their yearly pilgrimage to play the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.atlasobscura.com\/places\/the-stanley-hotel-estes-park-colorado\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">hotel that inspired <em>The Shining<\/em><\/a>. But their eighth record saw the group aim away from the dusty ground they\u2019ve long covered to tell a story about literal star-crossed lovers. It\u2019s a concept album about refugees of a destroyed Earth, trying to find a place in the vast cosmos.<span class=\"\" style=\"display:block;clear:both;height: 0px;padding-top: 5px;border-top-width:0px;border-bottom-width:0px;\"><\/span>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Single Takes presents MURDER BY DEATH &quot;Space&quot;\" width=\"689\" height=\"388\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Zf5x4ZisQDQ?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<span class=\"\" style=\"display:block;clear:both;height: 0px;padding-top: 10px;border-top-width:0px;border-bottom-width:0px;\"><\/span>\n<p>\u201cI love the idea of this long journey alone, hurtling through space, like, \u2018Are they asleep? Are they dead? Are they gonna make it?\u201d explains singer and guitarist Adam Turla, before adding with a chuckle. \u201cThese are the fun themes we address.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Turla\u2019s ominous baritone has been Murder by Death\u2019s signature since he formed the band with his now-wife, cellist Sarah Balliet, in 2000. He\u2019s spent most of his life addressing those \u201cfun themes\u201d he speaks of, tales about mortality and devils that have earned the band a devoted cult following. And to celebrate two decades together, Murder by Death is giving back with a tour built on <a href=\"https:\/\/murderbydeath.com\/blog\/2019\/10\/8\/20th-anniversary-tour-on-sale-now\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">fan-curated setlists<\/a> that span the entirety of their catalog, form their quasi-punk beginnings to their current interstellar ambitions.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNot everybody likes every album of ours the same,\u201d Turla says. \u201cBut I\u2019m amazed to see how every night, there are songs requested from every album. There seems to be a general respect for the whole body of work. As an artist, you can\u2019t ask for much more than that.\u201d<span class=\"\" style=\"display:block;clear:both;height: 0px;padding-top: 5px;border-top-width:0px;border-bottom-width:0px;\"><\/span>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Murder By Death - Brother [Official Music Video]\" width=\"689\" height=\"517\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/zt2Sf2-o94g?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<span class=\"\" style=\"display:block;clear:both;height: 0px;padding-top: 10px;border-top-width:0px;border-bottom-width:0px;\"><\/span>\n<p>Ahead of their stop in Madison, I spoke with Turla about ghosts, skeletons and the real-life horror of trying to plan an album close to the 2020 presidential election. This interview has been condensed for clarity and brevity.<\/p>\n<h4>Murder by Death\u2019s fanbase has always seemed very familial. Was that always your intention when cultivating a following, or did it kind of happen organically as more people found out about you?<\/h4>\n<p>It started from the fact that we were a DIY band. The first several hundred shows we played, I was booking them with the help of friends and local promoters. We were playing basements, pizza shops, VFWs\u2026 all that kind of stuff. From the beginning, we were kids playing music and looking for a place to play. We were sort of in it with the audience from the get-go. With the schedule we keep now, we couldn\u2019t do anything like that anymore. What we <em>can <\/em>do is the sort-of concept shows we do, like at The Stanley Hotel. We\u2019ve been doing this a long time, and there are people who have supported us the whole time and continue to show up and support our albums. We\u2019re grateful, and this tour is an expression of that.<\/p>\n<h4>When did you guys start doing the shows at the Stanley Hotel? It\u2019s such a cool concept not just to play there, but for a band like yours specifically to play there.<\/h4>\n<p>It\u2019s the perfect site. We started having some really great shows in Denver in the late 2000s, and we had a good relationship with the promoter there. I had read a little blip about that hotel and the connection to <em>The Shining<\/em>. I was like, \u201cMan, what a cool place to play a show.\u201d There\u2019s a fantasy element to Murder by Death. We\u2019re trying to do something that\u2019s not typical of a band and is more typical of movies or books or comics.<span class=\"\" style=\"display:block;clear:both;height: 0px;padding-top: 5px;border-top-width:0px;border-bottom-width:0px;\"><\/span>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Murder By Death - Stanley Hotel Documentary and Concert Film\" width=\"689\" height=\"388\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/eboMMjZ5EOg?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<span class=\"\" style=\"display:block;clear:both;height: 0px;padding-top: 10px;border-top-width:0px;border-bottom-width:0px;\"><\/span>\n<h4>You\u2019ve got a little room to get weird if you want to.<\/h4>\n<p>We try to play with the imagination a little bit. We work with a lot of artists to create the world of Murder by Death; the conceptual thing we\u2019ve always wanted to do. We finally have the fan base and the resources to pull off those events. So I proposed the idea to a promoter to see if he could get us into that room, because no one had ever done shows there. We lobbied the hotel and did all these conference calls with the city. We\u2019ve been doing five shows a year there for seven years now.<\/p>\n<h4>Since you\u2019ve spent a lot more time within those walls than most people, have you had any otherworldly experiences at the Stanley?<\/h4>\n<p>Every year someone has a story. I\u2019ve been around for a couple of fun, ghosty incidents. The concert hall where we play is, like, the most haunted area. And a lot of the production staff and the hotel staff \u2014 not just our people \u2014 do not want to be in the basement alone. There\u2019ve been lightbulbs burning out where there\u2019s only one in the room, or doors slamming out of nowhere in front of your eyes. Weird stuff like that.<\/p>\n<h4>I have to ask since \u2018<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/I_Think_You_Should_Leave_with_Tim_Robinson\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">I Think You Should Leave<\/a>\u2019 is a point of obsession in my home: how did your cover of <a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/Z3fTRk2yEgU\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">the skeleton song<\/a> come together?<\/h4>\n<p>We are friends with journalist <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/danozzi\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Dan Ozzi<\/a> and his roommate <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/MeganThompson\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Megan (Thompson)<\/a>, who directs music videos. She had the idea that we should cover this as Murder by Death. So Dan texted me like, \u201cHey, have you seen this, you\u2019ve got to watch it.\u201d I had already had one of my friends I grew up with say, \u201cAdam, you have to see this song. You\u2019re going to love it.\u201d I watched it with Sarah, and we were like, \u201cWe can figure something out.\u201d We had a show out in Joshua Tree, and Dan asked if he and Megan could come and film it. Right after soundcheck, we went out there, quickly learned the song and did a little shoot for no other reason than to be goofy. <em>(laughs)<\/em><span class=\"\" style=\"display:block;clear:both;height: 0px;padding-top: 5px;border-top-width:0px;border-bottom-width:0px;\"><\/span>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Murder by Death - Bones\" width=\"689\" height=\"388\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/o3GY9OxteZo?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<span class=\"\" style=\"display:block;clear:both;height: 0px;padding-top: 10px;border-top-width:0px;border-bottom-width:0px;\"><\/span>\n<h4>Speaking of \u201csomething spooky,\u201d a lot of the writing on \u2018The Other Shore\u2019 is very spacey and psychedelic. How did you plot it out?<\/h4>\n<p>The writing process for that record was my favorite. I\u2019d collect all my little ideas from over a year or two, and then I pared it down to a page each of these fragments of a song. And I\u2019d sit down with a guitar and start piecing them together. Some of them were more fully developed in a sense of structure, and some were very spare because I wanted the band to fill in the gaps. It\u2019s a little tough on the ego sometimes when you think you\u2019ve got one, and then everybody\u2019s like, \u201cIt\u2019s fine.\u201d <em>(laughs) <\/em>But if your bandmates aren\u2019t excited about it, how do you get anyone else excited about it?<\/p>\n<p>We talked about it earlier, but the premise of this band is a sort of fantasy universe. We had all been reading about space travel and Mars missions and reading sci-fi books. We\u2019ve had spacey songs our whole career, but we never brought the lyrics into that context. This one was really fun. It was, \u201cHow do I write lyrics that are sort of about space, but could be taken not so literally?\u201d<span class=\"\" style=\"display:block;clear:both;height: 0px;padding-top: 5px;border-top-width:0px;border-bottom-width:0px;\"><\/span>\n<figure id=\"attachment_18835\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-18835\" style=\"width: 1777px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-18835\" src=\"https:\/\/www.thebozho.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/MurderByDeath-crLexVoight.jpg\" alt=\"Adam Turla\" width=\"1777\" height=\"1000\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thebozho.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/MurderByDeath-crLexVoight.jpg 1777w, https:\/\/www.thebozho.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/MurderByDeath-crLexVoight-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.thebozho.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/MurderByDeath-crLexVoight-1024x576.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.thebozho.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/MurderByDeath-crLexVoight-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.thebozho.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/MurderByDeath-crLexVoight-1536x864.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1777px) 100vw, 1777px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-18835\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Adam Turla \/ photo by Lex Voight<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<span class=\"\" style=\"display:block;clear:both;height: 0px;padding-top: 5px;border-top-width:0px;border-bottom-width:0px;\"><\/span>\n<h4>You\u2019re looking back on 20 years with this band, which means you\u2019re probably looking forward at the same time. What avenues do you still want to explore with Murder by Death?<\/h4>\n<p>Going into the summer, I\u2019m going to start the process of compiling my ideas and start thinking about what I have and what\u2019s next. In the fall we\u2019ll probably start writing. I\u2019m trying to leave our recording schedule open because honestly, my straight answer is that with the election in November, it\u2019s such a crazy time to be living in this country and there\u2019s so much polarization. I\u2019ve got all these different songs that go all these different directions, and I want to see what I feel like and what the vibe is before I put a record out there without considering the context of everybody\u2019s state.<\/p>\n<h4>You almost have to leave a disaster buffer, in case things go completely sideways.<\/h4>\n<p>I\u2019m writing so much material that\u2019s covering different ideas, and obviously you want your music to resonate with people. Right now, I feel lots of uncertainties with whoever I talk to. A friend in another band was like, \u201cLet\u2019s go overseas in November and tour somewhere else,\u201d just so you don\u2019t have to deal with the volatility of it all. I don\u2019t want to rush a record out; I want to wait until it\u2019s ready. And I don\u2019t want to write in one direction and then everything changes and it doesn\u2019t represent the next couple of years the way I\u2019d want it to. I do like to think about external circumstances in songwriting, because you\u2019re distilling your experiences and world around you into relatable material.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/murderbydeath.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><em>Murder by Death<\/em><\/a><em> will perform at the Majestic Theatre on <\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/majesticmadison.com\/event\/murder-by-deaths-20th-anniversary\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><em>Friday, March 13<\/em><\/a><em> with the macabre, metal-influenced folk act <\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/amigothedevil.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><em>Amigo the Devil<\/em><\/a><em>.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On their 2018 album The Other Shore, Murder by Death gets lost in space. 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