2011-12-13T11:07:00.015-08:00

FDOME Get More Sleep Please Dr. Schachtl Weekend Trip
Thur. 3/22 - AS220 - Providence, RI 9pm $6 w/ Baylies Band and KONG
Fri. 3/23 - The Firehouse - Worcester, MA

Turner Falls’ Flaming Dragons Of Middle Earth. Led by wheelchair-bound ‘band shaman’ Danny Cruz and consisting of a rotating group of non-musicians, psychedelic drop-outs, teenage metallers, kids with Down Syndrome etc, Flaming Dragons play a form of super crude/sophisticated free rock ala The Godz or even a punk-primitive Arkestra but with Cruz’s stunning, oracular vocals giving them a mainline to the freak flag style of prime Captain Beefheart, Roky Erickson and Wasa Wasa-era Broughton. Cruz’s instant lyric inventions are as mind-boggling as your favourite medium while the group lurch around on staggering brokedown rhythms somewhere between early-Sabbath, Robbie Yeats of The Dead C and The Shaggs. Their material ranges from stripped-down raps to lumbering psychedelic rock, as well as free-form freakouts w/lyrics that obsess over murder, bloodshed, astral creeps and, uh, Joni Mitchell... indeed Cruz makes most ‘sound poets’ sound like children’s entertainers. - David Keenan

Flaming Dragons of Middle Earth is a Mudlightning Metal super-group. Danny Cruz - lead vocal, guitar // PLUS Nick Williams, Jeremy Latch, Loren Burke, Coco Schachtl, Mary Collins, Cory Matthews, Cathe Janke, Lady Gaga on Key Board, Robin Whitcomb, Zack Suker, Hedy Stegner and Chris Dooley sometimes and sometimes there used to be other members. Also you are a member, why don't you come to practice? Flaming Dragons of Middle Earth is looking for paying gigs in the northeast at night clubs, in New York City and all over and L.A. too. EVERYWHERE, even England. Our lyrics are about good and evil, sexual raw things, Satanic evil, evil, Satan, demons and RPM, vampires of middle earth, dancing in the club, money, fame, anti-greed, peace and love, God, middle earth, loving Lady Gaga, loving friends, love and heartbreak, wars with demons and gods, 2012, 666, zombies, communists, nihilists, G.G. Allin and how he's wrong, genocide, homicide, bedlam, murder, Buddhism, Shintoism, Hinduism, hedonists, SEX, gay rights. Send all booking inquires to our dungeon master - flamingdragonsofmiddleearth@gmail.com

Discography/you can buy albums here

The Beth of Madness CDR (Mabel Flav 2008)
The Seed Of Contempt LP (Feeding Tube 2010)
Electric Scaryland TAPE (Beniffer Editions 2011)
Sexual Gaga Singles TAPE (Mabel Flav 2011)
Smash The Teacup TAPE (Mabel Flav 2011)
Horny Gaga Dog TAPE (Mabel Flav 2011)
For Mabel Flav tapes write mabelflav@gmail.com
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A 45 minute interview with Danny Cruz by
members of the band Cave Bears appears
as the unlisted B side of the Cave Bears tape
Live at the Whisky 1977 (Scotch Tapes 2009)

Video / see also the dedicated FDOME channel

Press
Behind The Beat article - Valley Advocate
Interview with Danny Cruz (Dutch) - Vice Magazine
Flaming Dragons of Middle Earth - fan page
Flaming Dragons of Middle Earth - Myspace
The Seed of Contempt reviews -
Rotten Meats, Volcanic Tongue - Tip of the Tongue, Still Single, Foxy Digitalis,
Fuck You Counselor, Devil Can You Hear Me?

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