True Widow Guitarist Works Wood by Day, Rocks at Night

Dallas power trio True Widow will slowly but surely destroy your hearing with their doomy, noisy, funeral dirge of a new album, entitled 'As High As the Highest Heavens and From the Center to the Circumference of the Earth.'

Vocalist-guitarist Dan Phillips is as deft with his power tools as he is with his axe. "In real life, I am a woodworker," Phillips told Noisecreep recently. "I go to my shop everyday. I make furniture mostly. Occasionally, I do some painting and drawing as well."

As for True Widow's ultra-long album title, Phillips claims that it's meant to be as all-encompassing as it sounds. "It means everything," Phillips said. "The all. Everything below your feet and all the way out in every direction. Everything." That's certainly some food for thought for listeners who want to do some deep thinking while cranking the jams on 'As High As the Highest Heavens and From the Center to the Circumference of the Earth.'

While Phillips plans to spend the rest of 2011 in an enviable way (he said he wants to "work hard, travel, and hang out with friends), fans of dirge-like, fuzzed-out metal will certainly latch onto True Widow's sonic offering. As Phillips says, the music is "thick, simple, heavy, and slow moving. Tuned low to resonate in different ways."

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