You should know about Ink & Dagger. Ink & Dagger were special. The Philadelphia band didn’t last long, but they seemed like some ancient mythological thing even when they were still around. Ink & Dagger’s sound was dark, discordant hardcore. Early in the band’s history, they dressed up as vampires, playing in the dark and wearing white makeup and fake blood. Tons of different people cycled through the band over the years, including alt-comedy figurehead Eric Wareheim, who briefly played bass for them. Ink & Dagger ended suddenly in 1999, when frontman Sean McCabe was found dead in an Indiana hotel room at the age of 27. Now, Ink & Dagger are teasing a new album. You might like to know how that could possibly work. Well, so would I.
