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Month: March 2020

Interview: Raider

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Canadian Death/Thrashers Raider have just unveiled their debut full-length album to the world this month, following up on the 2018 demo Urge To Kill with the release of Guardian of the Fire. Raider’s frontman, Angelo Bonacorso, answered a few questions about the band and the new album.  Guardian of the Fire is actually your first full-length, what are some ideas that went into the making of this album? Musically: we wanted this record to introduce something fresh to death-thrash. What we came up with is something heavy, catchy, and original. We wanted to pay homage to our forebears but the only way […]

Interview: ZouZou Mansour of Soraia

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Soraia is a hard rocking band out of Philadelphia who have just released their latest full-album, Dig Your Roots, and recently took to a new platform with StageIt to do a livestream record release show for fans during this time of social distancing (and concert cancellations). Frontwoman ZouZou Mansour sat down for an interview to discuss the roots of Dig Your Roots, songwriting and influences, and the near future for the band.  Dig Your Roots is an awesome album with catchy, clever tracks and a versatile range of styles – can you start by talking about some ideas you went […]

Interview: Sammy Boller

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Guitarist Sammy Boller just made his solo debut with the instrumental album Kingdom of the Sun today, on CandyRat Records. We connected for an interview this week about his new venture into a solo career, his time in Citizen Zero, connections with Joe Satriani, Guitar World, and Friedman Amps, background as a musician, and more.  You’ve got the new album, Kingdom of the Sun coming out, and you have been a solo artist in your own right for some amount of time, so let’s talk about your first solo album, what are some things that went into it? When my […]

Raider Unleash “Guardian of The Fire”

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Canadian Death/Thrashers Raider have just unveiled their debut full-length album to the world today, following up on the 2018 demo Urge To Kill with the release of Guardian of the Fire. Here’s what the band has to say about the new record: “We brought back a lot of familiar elements but added so much more. Guardian of the Fire is more diverse, more aggressive, and is frankly just going to hit way harder. We’re stoked to see what our fans and future fans think of these new tunes! The band has definitely grown a lot in terms of songwriting the last few years […]

Soraia Releases New Album and Livestreams Release Shows

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Philadelphia Hard Rockers Soraia have just released their new full-length, Dig Your Roots, via Wicked Cool Records (the label started by Musician/Personality Stevie Van Zandt), available via all streaming music services here. The four-piece rockers were set to hold a hometown record release show this weekend, but the current pandemic situation that has closed down music venues in most states put a stop to that plan – in response, Soraia turned to the virtual concert world, with an online livestream version of the show they were set to play broadcasting in real time tonight via StageIt.  Soraia has some tour dates […]