Metal, Meat & Bone: The Songs of Dyin' Dog

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Metal, Meat & Bone
Studio album by
The Residents
ReleasedJuly 10, 2020 (2020-07-10)
GenreArt rock, Blues rock, Experimental rock
Length1:18:25
LabelCherry Red
ProducerThe Residents, Eric Drew Feldman
The Residents chronology

(2018) 		Metal, Meat & Bone
(2020)

Metal, Meat & Bone is an album released by American avant-garde collective the Residents in July 2020. The record finds the band experimenting with themes and stylings of traditional blues and rock & roll. The album purports to be a cover project, collecting songs written by fictional albino blues singer Alvin Snow (or Dyin' Dog), as well as re-recorded versions credited to the group themselves.

The Residents currently plan to tour the album in August 2021 on the Dog Stab! tour, playing songs from it alongside various selections from the 1978 album Duck Stab / Buster & Glen.[1]

Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
Under the Radar7/10 stars
Classic Rock3/5 stars

Release[]

Selections from Metal, Meat & Bone were first previewed on the Residents' In Between Dreams tour in 2018.

The album's concept was first introduced by the July 2019 upload of a track from the album, "Bury My Bone", supposedly recorded by a singer named Dyin' Dog.[2] A couple of months later, on October 2019, the Residents uploaded a 13-minute mini-documentary on YouTube detailing the supposed history of the album's main character, Alvin Snow, also known by his stage name, Dyin' Dog.[3] A box set of five 7" singles purported to contain all of Alvin's recorded output was released at the same time.[4]

The track "DIE! DIE! DIE!" was promoted with a single and music video on May 15, 2020.[5] The video gained small notoriety for its references to Donald Trump and the COVID-19 pandemic, as well as the participation of Black Francis, singer and frontman of the Pixies, on the song's vocals.[6]

A second music video for "Bury My Bone", directed by media artist John Sanborn, was released on June 28, 2020.[7]

Track listing[]

Tracks 1-10 on Disc One are credited to Alvin Snow. Tracks 11-16 are credited to the Residents.

Disc One
No.TitleLength
1."Bury My Bone"2:12
2."Hungry Hound"2:03
3."DIE! DIE! DIE! (featuring Black Francis)"4:05
4."River Runs Dry"2:50
5."The Dog's Dream"2:51
6."I Know"3:56
7."Pass for White"3:13
8."Tell Me"2:59
9."Mama Don't Go"2:22
10."Dead Weight"3:14
11."Cold as a Corpse"2:40
12."Blood Stains"2:45
13."Cut to the Quick"2:21
14."She Called Me Doggy"3:03
15."Evil Hides"3:12
16."Midnight Man"5:40
Total length:49:26
Disc Two – The original Dyin' Dog demos
No.TitleLength
1."Bury My Bone"2:15
2."Hungry Hound"2:08
3."DIE! DIE! DIE!"4:03
4."River Runs Dry"2:12
5."The Dog's Dream"3:09
6."I Know"3:25
7."Pass for White"3:50
8."Tell Me"2:39
9."Mama Don't Go"2:02
10."Dead Weight"3:16
Total length:28:59

Personnel[8][]

Disc one[]

  • The Residents – performance, arrangements
  • Eric Drew Feldman – production, performance
  • Nolan Cook – guitars
  • Carla Fabrizio – vocals
  • Sivan Lioncub – vocals
  • Peter Whitehead – vocals
  • Rob Laufer – vocals
  • Black Francis – vocals on "DIE! DIE! DIE!"

Disc two[]

  • Alvin Snow – performance, songwriting
  • The Mongrels – performance
  • Roland Sheehan – performance

References[]

  1. ^ "The Residents announce 'Dog Stab!' 50th Anniversary Tour". Rolling Stone.
  2. ^ "Bury My Bone by Dyin' Dog". YouTube.
  3. ^ "The Residents present Dyin' Dog". YouTube.
  4. ^ "The Residents present Alvin Snow, AKA Dyin' Dog". Psychofon Records.
  5. ^ "The Residents' DIE! DIE! DIE!". YouTube.
  6. ^ "The Residents and Black Francis drop "Die! Die! Die!"". Rolling Stone.
  7. ^ "The Residents' Bury My Bone". YouTube.
  8. ^ "The Residents - Metal, Meat & Bone: The Songs of Dyin' Dog". Discogs.
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