King of Sweden Release New Single ‘Dreaming About The Emerald’, Rick Pierce Group Release New Single ‘Tick Tock’, Lost Relics Release New Single ‘Unrealistic Cause’, SKAM Release New Single & Video ‘One Track Mind’.
King of Sweden have recently signed to Crusader Records, with their new single Dreaming About the Emerald out now.
Dreaming About the Emerald is the first peek into the 6-track album The Training and it paints both a dreamy and energetic musical landscape.
Echoes of bands like King Crimson, Genesis, Gentle Giant, Yes to modern prog bands like Porcupine Tree, Dream Theater and The Pineapple Thief flow through King of Sweden.
Rick Pierce is a founding member, lead guitar and songwriter of the legendary Seattle hard rock band TKO, whose debut release Let It Roll continues to cement the band’s cult-like status. Pierce then went on to play with Q5 (with Floyd Rose, acclaimed inventor of the Floyd Rose tremolo system) who’s album Steal The Light goes down as an all-time classic.
Pierce now returns with RPG (Rick Pierce Group) who recently signed with Crusader Records and have delivered new single Tick Tock.
Tick Tock was written in the spirit of Q5’s Missing in Action, Steel the Light’s hard-hitting album opener. The idea is to get everyone’s attention from the start. It matches a heavy guitar riff to Floyd’s almost mystical lyrics. It is a pure slab of the best U.S. power / traditional metal.
Denver dirt rockers LOST RELICS have dropped their new single Unrealistic Cause via Coffin & Bolt / Golden Robot Records. Sludgy, doomy and damn riff heavy LOST RELICS come at you with the same intensity of some of their contemporaries Corrosion of Conformity, Down, Crowbar and Clutch.
The weight of indifference is the boulder that crushes our society. Empathy is dead and with it so are we. It is an Unrealistic Cause. LOST RELICS employ Richter scale riffs to manifest the emotional density of these troubled times. Songs of protest. Songs of desperation. Songs for the end.
UK rock trio, SKAM have released a new single and video clip One Track Mind which is out now via X-Ray Records. It is the follow up to recent single Green Eyes and comes off their upcoming EP Intra.
The track sees the boys express the darker side of the SKAM sound.
The fuzztastic buzzsaw riff heralds the story of a man with insomnia, the trouble he has getting to sleep and the thoughts in his head, all be it for a chilling reason. Inspired by the strange notion that even the most innocent can have dark secrets and things hiding in the shadows.
The track itself is the perfect blend of what makes SKAM popular, hard hitting riffs and a melodic sing-along chorus.
The track features a guitar duel outro by SKAM’s Steve Hill and Paul Mahon of The Answer who makes a guest appearance to add some further fire.
Steve says: “The Answer were the first band to take us on the road so will always have a special place in our hearts, Paul has become a good friend and has some serious face melting skills so I could think of no one better to offer out to a guitar duel for our track One Track Mind we were overjoyed when he agreed and we are so proud of the result”
Turn it up loud and enjoy.
