Uncle Acid & the Deadbeats

Fronted by guitarist, vocalist, and visionary Kevin A. Starrs, Uncle Acid & the Deadbeats are a band whose proto-metal excursions exhibit all the creeping menace of early Black Sabbath while also adding a healthy dose of melody and just enough heady psychedelia around the edges to make it weird. Their early recordings were made on the cheap, but the lack of fidelity couldn't disguise the band's strengths. Once they had a label backing them, they still went for a lo-fi approach, and records like 2013's Mind Control came across like dusty artifacts saved from the dustbin by chan...