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"The genre-blurring electro-pop-metal outfit, Deadsy&amp;apos;s second album, Commencement, has taken the back roads towards existence, originally having been slated for a 1999 release on Warner Bros. The album will finally see release on Korn&amp;apos;s Elementree Records, an imprint of Dreamworks, next spring.\n\nBut rather than piss and moan about the delay, the group has embraced it, using the time to record a handful of new tracks for the album as well as sign on with the current Family Values Tour, where they hope to court a fan base eager to receive Commencement upon its release. &amp;quot;It&amp;apos;s interesting to see what kind of reactions we get being completely unknown to most of these kids, because we&amp;apos;re playing for Linkin Park&amp;apos;s crowd and Staind&amp;apos;s crowd,&amp;quot; says Elijah Blue (a.k.a. Philips Exeter Blue -- each member has a prep school informed stage name), Deadsy&amp;apos;s frontman. &amp;quot;But we&amp;apos;re getting a really good response after each song.&amp;quot;\n\nWith a band manifesto (printed at www.deadsy.com), stage names, arm bands, insignias and the air of private school gone amok, Deadsy -- which also includes keyboardist Dr. Nner, guitarist Carlton Meglodon, drummer Alec P&amp;#xFC;re and drummer Craig -- stick out amongst the straight-ahead guitar rock of Stone Temple Pilots and Staind, or Linkin Park&amp;apos;s rap-rock hybrid. &amp;quot;I&amp;apos;m very fascinated by Skull and Bones and secret societies and all that stuff that people are very curious about that create an air of mystique,&amp;quot; says Blue, himself a former student at Maine&amp;apos;s Hyde School. &amp;quot;That&amp;apos;s consistent with what rock is about. I think that the best music-art is made when it has a stamp of who you are and your life and what you&amp;apos;re about. [Prep school] was the environment that let me discover so many things that most kids wouldn&amp;apos;t have access to. Being a kid of privilege [Blue&amp;apos;s parents are Cher and Greg Allman], I often call this band &amp;apos;a perversion of privilege.&amp;apos; Whatever I was going to do, it was going to be high-concept.&amp;quot;\n\nAnd the band hopes that that concept will eventually prove to be a pull, rather than a push for fans. &amp;quot;When we&amp;apos;re on stage it&amp;apos;s still like a rock show,&amp;quot; Blue says. &amp;quot;Once you get into the record and the whole allegory of the band it&amp;apos;s a different thing. But our job is to make it so the kids get it and I really want the kids to get it. And I think one of the best way to have the first experience is to see us live.&amp;quot;\n\nAnd having been signed to Elementree, the group also managed to tap Korn&amp;apos;s Jonathan Davis to lend his vocals to &amp;quot;The Key to Gramercy Park,&amp;quot; the album&amp;apos;s first single. &amp;quot;We&amp;apos;ve known Jon for awhile and we&amp;apos;d done a song in the past, but we wanted to do something that was a little bit more in your face,&amp;quot; Blue says. &amp;quot;[The single] has the freshness of what this band is with some beats that people can identify. It kind of serves as a Trojan horse, so the main thing we do doesn&amp;apos;t go over people&amp;apos;s heads. It&amp;apos;s introduction to Deadsy, and we really like it because it&amp;apos;s a really slamming fucking pop song.&amp;quot;\n\nAs with any high-concept band, Deadsy are already thinking ahead, having written a portion of their next album. &amp;quot;We&amp;apos;re thinking about albums and their succession as a story unfolding in itself,&amp;quot; Blue says. &amp;quot;We hope to be around for awhile. Like Bowie did, you gotta stay ahead.&amp;quot;\n\nAnd as for which is worse, the debauchery that comes with life on tour versus life in a private school? &amp;quot;Private school man, absolutely,&amp;quot; he says. &amp;quot;Any environment that&amp;apos;s devoid of accountability and responsibility. As decadent as the rock lifestyle can get, we&amp;apos;re thinking about too many business things, too many grown up things interwoven with any of the debauchery you might experience. I guess that level of super ivory tower cloud of rock stardom is when you can get back to the accountability-free days of one&amp;apos;s youth. So we&amp;apos;re just pedaling just as fast as we can to get back to that place.&amp;quot;"^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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