Weakling was a progressive/atmospheric black metal band from San Francisco. The band never toured and only made one album, Dead As Dreams, recorded in 1998 and released on tUMUlt Records in 2000. Prior to the release of this album, a few odd tales sprung up about the possible ways the album could be distributed, including printing a single copy to be given to a single fan in Europe or burying copies of the album in the ground and giving maps to fans who wanted to find them. Band leader John Gossard has since decried the spread of these stories as a publicity stunt pulled by the band's record label, noting that the ideas were never intended to be more than a joke between the band members.http://allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll Initially, Weakling was mainly noted for featuring guitarist Josh Smith of The Fucking Champs (fellow champ Tim Green served as producer), but a recent reissue of their material has brought their work quite a bit

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