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In 1860 Ethan Allan Vanderpool, a professor of linguistics at Harvard and a former sergeant of the United States Army made a trip to the Yucatan Peninsula in Mexico at the insistence of a former Army associate, Prescott Phillips Meyer. Meyer's work lay mainly in the excavation of Pre-Hispanic step pyramids. He had been working at the site of the remains of a Mayan city in the lower Yucatan known as Machuxla and had recently struck gold with the discovery of several Mayan scrolls which he had been unable to decode in full. His hopes were that Vanderpool might be able to assist him in the deciphering of the codex. An eccentric in his field, Meyer had also arrived at a theory of correlation between Mayan religion and that of the anitquated Babylonian mythos, based on an uncanny similarity between Babylonian and Mayan architecture. Vanderpool gladly agreed to join him, not realizing that his visit would eventually extend for years.
...And You Will Know Us by the Trail of Dead was formed in late 1994 by singers/guitarists/drummers Jason Reece and Conrad Keely, longtime friends who originally met in Hawaii before both settled in the perennial indie hotbed of Olympia, WA (where Reece fronted the notorious Mukilteo Fairies). Upon relocating together to Austin, TX, the duo played their first shows as You Will Know Us by the Trail of Dead, eventually adding both the conjunction and the ellipsis as well as recruiting guitarist Kevin Allen and bassist/sampler Neil Busch. After issuing a live cassette on the local Golden Hour label, the group -- already legendary in indie circles for their anarchic concert sets -- released their self-titled full-length debut on Trance Syndicate in early 1998. Following the label's collapse, T.O.D. moved to Merge to issue Madonna in the fall of 1999. After signing to Interscope, the band issued the formidable Source Tags & Codes in 2002, followed by the Secrets of Elena's Tomb EP in 2003. Worlds Apart, a prog-rock-inspired epic, arrived early in 2005.
...And You Will Know Us by the Trail of Dead was formed in late 1994 by singers/guitarists/drummers Jason Reece and Conrad Keely, longtime friends who originally met in Hawaii before both settled in the perennial indie hotbed of Olympia, WA (where Reece fronted the notorious Mukilteo Fairies). Upon relocating together to Austin, TX, the duo played their first shows as You Will Know Us by the Trail of Dead, eventually adding both the conjunction and the ellipsis as well as recruiting guitarist Kevin Allen and bassist/sampler Neil Busch. After issuing a live cassette on the local Golden Hour label, the group -- already legendary in indie circles for their anarchic concert sets -- released their self-titled full-length debut on Trance Syndicate in early 1998. Following the label's collapse, T.O.D. moved to Merge to issue Madonna in the fall of 1999. After signing to Interscope, the band issued the formidable Source Tags & Codes in 2002, followed by the Secrets of Elena's Tomb EP in 2003. Worlds Apart, a prog-rock-inspired epic, arrived early in 2005.