Double Dagger

This week we'll be taking a look back at Baltimore's Double Dagger for yet another entry into our "gone but not forgotten" series. Double Dagger were in a special league of bands that can take the sparse setup of bass, drums and vocals and make it sound full (see: Japanther, Unstoppable Death Machines, Ed Schrader's Music Beat), and of course they rocked. Their songs glided seemlessly from instrumental to heavy punk jams, the latter of which gave lead singer Nolen Strals an oppurunity to take it into the crowd (and accidentally stick his head in a garbage can in the case of this show). And though they played their last show October of last year there's still more Double Dagger to come: word is they'll be releasing a new LP in 2012 (and in the mean time you can catch former DD drumer Denny Bowen in the excellent Roomrunner).