NATHAN WADE & THE DARK PIONEERS are Seattle’s purveyors of apocalyptic Americana, hitching the rusted scraps of American roots music to a battered pick-up truck and dragging it across a broken 21st Century landscape. It’s a cinematic trip down a desolate highway as the dashboard rattles apart and the truck radio blasts songs of murder, drug abuse, and Biblical arcana.

Their new album, The Chroma Session EP, was recorded live at Chroma Sound Studio in Seattle. It's an electrified, slash-and-burn reinvention of songs from Nathan Wade's debut album, The Dead Leaves Sing, along with a double-barrel shot of new music. The Chroma Session EP stands as a bullet-riddled mile marker on the road to musical armageddon, a future the band is driving into at high speed; behind them, a blood-red sun settles in the dust they've left behind.

Recommended if you like: Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds, Chris Whitley, Night Of The Hunter, gasoline fumes, Cormac McCarthy novels, Led Zeppelin III, dark alleys, the Book of Revelations.