Death Ships set sail in 2001, When undergrad/founder Dan Maloney was living in the basement of the notorious Iowa City punk house Theta Beta Potata. Armed with an acoustic guitar, Maloney started writing a collection of rock, folk, pop, & country tunes under the name Death Ships, a name that objectifies Maloney’s own fascination with nautical lore, and his own sense of humor for what many will think is surely a metal band. What seemed like a college bedroom project morphed into a full steamed...