99% of all music groups that decry religion do so through the use of eardrum shattering metal music and brazen satanic imagery. Ryan Dawson (nom de plume Thirtysilver), on the other hand, uses a more subdued method. He plays stripped-down, acoustic jams laced with dark, thought-provoking lyrics, or as he describes it, “alt-folk for brooding intellectuals.”
His artist name is a reference to the New Testament story of Judas Iscariot’s betrayal of Jesus Christ. Judas was paid thirty pieces of si...