Nathan Wade

Nathan Wade & The Dark Pioneers are Seattle's purveyors of apocalyptic Americana, honing their rootsy, fire & brimstone-laden tunes deep inside an abandoned fall-out shelter. Sometimes you have to consider the worst-case-scenario to fully appreciate all you could lose in this world, and whether it's religious rapture or environmental disaster that Nathan Wade's lyrics foretell, it's with dark humor and a strong sense of song craft that the band elevates their music above the doom & gloom and into the light.
Recommended if you like: Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds, Chris Whitley, Night Of The Hunter, gasoline fumes, Cormac McCarthy novels, Led Zeppelin III, dark alleys, the Book of Revelation.