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Silkworm, Spoon & Guided By Voices: Indie Rock High School Class Of '96

Provincializm #14: The Worm Turns

by William S. Bowers

Tim Midgett announced the release of the debut album by he and Andy Cohen’s new band Bottomless Pit via Silkworm’s website on October 10, 2007, five days before the trial began for the person who hit and killed Silkworm drummer Michael Dahlquist with her car over two years ago. (She was found guilty of three counts of reckless homicide with mental illness on October 26, and will wait a month to be sentenced.) Almost every aspect of this first post-Silkworm project seems to address Dahlquist’s death, from the matter-defying morbidity of the band name to the haunted architecture captured in the packaging. The title, Hammer Of The Gods, frames fate as percussive, and is of course also the name of the infamous book about Led Zeppelin, the most heralded band to break up because of the irreplaceability of their deceased drummer.