In a musical generation swamped with cookie-cutter rap and rock songs, one band not only offers an atypical personality, but a whole new style of music.

Welcome Dead Confederate: the dark, raw and eerie psychedelic rock group from Athens, Ga.

The five-piece band just finished recording their first full-length album, “Wrecking Ball,” in the same tattered studio that the sound effects for “The Texas Chainsaw Massacre” were recorded – a testament to the spine-chilling music they produce.

Since “Wrecking Ball’s” release in late 2008, Dead Confederate has been making headlines, performing on “Late Night with Conan O’Brien” and seeing their first single debut and peak at No. 39 on the U.S. Modern Rock chart this February.

Their single, titled “The Rat” (actually written by the band a few years ago), is an honest song that condemns religious hypocrisy. It’s catchy – centered on an unnerved and scaling guitar riff – but at the same time, lyrically sinister and angry.

In the song, lead vocalist and guitarist Hardy Morris cries, “Throw your judgments across the breeze! Watch them float off to never be saved! You live inside your Jesus dream!”

According to Morris, the dark nature of most of the bands lyrics is for a reason.

“If something good happens, I’m like, sweet, let’s go get margaritas,” he admitted to MusicRemedy.com. “But if something bad happens, I’m going to go to my room to write.”

Morris’ voice is honest and powerful. His whining moments are similar to that of Radiohead’s Thom Yorke, while his raspy screams are undeniably reminiscent of Nirvana’s Curt Cobain.

The album starts explosively with the lead track, “Heavy Petting,” which explains a failed relationship. Morris openly wails, “I’m ashamed. I like her. I’m keeping myself away today. I have to try.”

After “The Rat,” the third track, “Goner,” gripes about if the band was forgotten for their efforts. The fourth track, titled “It Was a Rose,” relies on a more psychedelic and poetic vibe. Like almost every one of the songs Dead Confederate produces, this song starts out rather slow and heavy but builds up and eventually detonates into an emotive outpouring.

The rest of the album consists of a mixture of the band’s unique style: “Start Me Laughing” is a wound-up, volatile track, while “Flesh Colored Canvas” – more than 12 minutes long – relies on mellow instrumentals to articulate the band’s mood.

It’s hard to pinpoint Dead Confederate’s sound as a whole, which makes them so unique.

While Morris draws comparisons to Cobain in voice inflection and face-covering hair, Dead Confederate as a group sounds more like a meshing of Nirvana, Radiohead, Pink Floyd, Sonic Youth and My Morning Jacket.

Dead Confederate’s album is available in stores and online nationwide, but if you purchase it from iTunes, a bonus track titled “As Able As Well” is included.

“We’re kind of like a Jackson Pollock painting,” Morris said in the band’s biography. “Brutally honest. There isn’t some big twist or turn, it just lays it all out there. Immediate, no frills, primal, emotional.”

“Wrecking Ball” is a beautiful and sincere effort, and an exceptionally unique listening experience from the up-and-coming Southern band.