Mightiest of Guns are a dark country band from Melbourne, Australia. Their music explores the dreams and follies of the downtrodden. The Naarm/Melbourne sad bastards have released a couple of critically and popularly acclaimed genre twisting works which match equally their menacing onstage presence.
Dark, slacker country born from a dirty warehouse band room in Abottsford, sometime in 2011, Mightiest of Guns originally came together as a two-piece Brett Marshall (guitar, sing) and Dale Bartlett (Drums), toting sparse songs, of desperation, drunkenness and cruelty.
After running a 12 month gauntlet of playing in Milk Bars, house parties, warehouse gigs, front bars of pubs, small time student recordings, and a residency at a dive skater bar, Mightiest of Guns brought Blair Wittstadt into the fold on bass, and begun turning their songs towards of the bloodiness found in the myths of the Wild West and Australian Bush Rangers
Debut album, Drink Over Your Grave, released in 2015 featured dark ballads of bushrangers and cowboys with long awaited second album released in September 2022, Cherax Destructor proving itself to be not only a departure from their debut record but an Absolute Monster of an opus exploring the dreams and follies of the downtrodden.
Mightiest of Guns are no-frills, brooding, sad-bastard rock ‘n roll who will no doubt make your Saturday Night Evening Session at Palling Bros feel that little bit more dangerous.