Are they a band? A collective? A hoax? A hallucination? For over five decades, The Residents have rejected the very idea of identity, embracing anonymity as their most enduring persona. Wrapped in absurdist humour, avant-garde composition, and theatrical surrealism, they exist in a space few artists dare to occupy—a world where music is myth, performance is deception, and contradiction is the only constant. Today, The Residents release Doctor Dark, a project decades in the making and perhaps their most ambitious and unsettling work yet—a modern opera sculpted from real-world horror and existential dread, a collision of heavy metal, classical orchestration, and the avant-garde abyss. Conducted and orchestrated by Edwin Outwater (San Francisco Conservatory of Music), the album is an unnervin...