Dead Confederate  Artist Bio  There's a new breed of dark, raw,
mind-blowing psych-rock crawling from the South, and its name is
Dead Confederate. The Georgia group conjured the haunting sound
of their debut full-length album WRECKING BALL the old-fashioned
way: by making it in the tiny concrete box of a studio in
Austin, Texas, where the sound effects for The Texas Chainsaw
Massacre were recorded. "We're kind of like a Jackson Pollock
painting," explains singer/guitarist Hardy Morris, 28. "Brutally
honest. There isn't some big twist or turn, it just lays it all
out there. Immediate, no frills, primal, emotional." WRECKING
BALL is out September 16 through TAO Records.  Dead Confederate
- singer/guitarist Hardy Morris, bassist Brantley Senn,
guitarist Walker Howle, keyboardist John Watkins, and drummer
Jason Scarboro - first bonded over Pink Floyd and Black Sabbath
("stoner shit," as Morris puts it) when they attended high
school together in Augusta, Georgia. After keeping a band
loosely together throughout co