English Stoner Metal band Uncle Acid & The Deadbeats are releasing their fifth album, 'Wasteland' on October 12. They recorded the basic tracks live in the studio. The album has a pretty cool sci-fi/dystopian based concept, but I'll let frontman Kevin Starrs explain it:
“The album is set in a land where people live in walled cities, under heavy surveillance, cut off and in fear of one another. All their thoughts, knowledge and memories have been wiped clean, leaving them like the living dead, barely functioning and addicted to the glow of flickering propaganda screens. In the underworld, there are program discs for the brain that can replace stolen thoughts and allow people to finally think for themselves. It gives them knowledge to escape the misery of the cities and to reach the freedom of the outer wastelands, but the wasteland, of course, is total hell on earth. The general idea seemed quite fitting with all the propaganda and misinformation that we’ve been bombarded with in recent years.”