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Sometimes the most beautiful music is made by the angriest people, as the members of Nagel can personally attest. The band’s story is long and unusually incestuous, even by rock-n-roll standards: Everyone in the band has been married to each other at one point or another, and they are all related, which is why they only work under pseudonyms--to protect the guilty. Their family tree is so complicated that the band once unwittingly gave away their royalties to an imposter claiming to be a Nagel; his deception was only uncovered after a team of attorneys realized there was one too many members present for their historic signing to Royal Cherry Cavendish Records on the roof of the Empire State Building in 1994.

Diva and Rio, the tempestuous and stunningly beautiful ladies of Nagel, were legally married in the state of Massachusetts once same-sex unions were ratified by the State Supreme Court, but had their marriage dissolved upon the discovery by Diva that Rio’s divorce from Thunder, the band’s elaborately-mustachioed charismatic charlatan bass-player, had had not yet been finalized. Diva, too, had once been married to Thunder, for sixteen hours in the late 1980s.

In the mean time, the longstanding feud over family oil holdings between siblings Taskmaster, Mr. Kyte, and Rio threatened the band’s co-existence with first cousins Diva and Thunder. The handsome and reclusive drummer, Mr. Kyte, whose sexuality is as changeable as a rainbow-colored chameleon, has an adopted child with his on-again/off-again domestic partner, Thunder. That child, who wishes to remain anonymous, then went on to marry Rio.

After a long, tumultuous court battle, Diva’s restraining order against her Svengali-esque guitar-playing taskmaster, Taskmaster, has been lifted, and they can finally return to the studio without armed guards being present.

Although none of the members of Nagel are speaking to one another at the present time, as a group they are hopeful that they can put their sordid past behind them and find some measure of peace on their remote wind-powered recording complex/compound in the outer reaches of the Utah desert, which is the only place in the United States they are legally able to inhabit. (And where the drinking age was recently lowered to 17, which was what initially drew the attention of Taskmaster and his young ward, whose name and gender is unknown, to the area.) BARELY NAGEL, the first release from the band since entering the womb-like seclusion of their underground bunker, is a concept album inspired by their new desert surroundings; a musical exploration of their visionary, and highly litigious, embrace of polyamory, it is available now on .