Vancouver metallers DEAD QUIET unleash stirring « Truth and Ruin » video; new album out September 11th on Artoffact Records!
- NEWS
- 13/08/2020
Pacific Northwest’s most fiery and stadium-ready heavy rock quintet DEAD QUIET unveil their new video for « Truth and Ruin », the title track off their upcoming third album, out on September 11th through Artoffact Records.
Vocalist Kevin Keegan, formerly of Metal Blade band Barn Burner, has range and charisma in spades – in 2018, Metal Hammer declared that he might be « the next great stoner rock visionary. » Of the new album’s lyrics, Keegan says: « I had a really rough year and the inspiration came from there. I was in a really unhealthy relationship, I had some friends pass away, and I experienced some real trauma in my line of work as a frontline worker dealing with the fentanyl epidemic. [My bandmates] Brock, Dana, and I all work in the Downtown Eastside of Vancouver as mental health, overdose prevention, and harm reduction workers. »
Watch heartrending new video for « Truth and Ruin » HERE
From Vancouver, Canada, comes DEAD QUIET. The third full-length ‘Truth and Ruin’shows the band at its peak, delivering its arena-ready, proto-metal bacchanal with power and flair. Dead Quiet’s dramatic, organ-heavy songs are saturated with respect for the hard rock and heavy metal titans of the late ’70s and early ’80s – there are traces of blazing Deep Purple jams and hellbent Judas Priest bangers – but the band rocks with a prowess all its own. Dead Quiet respects its elders while fully owning its own craft. The band previously unveiled « The Sign of a Sealed Fate« , « Forever Unsung » and their brilliant isolated lyric video for « Partial Darkness« .
New album ‘Truth and Ruin’ was engineered and mixed by Jesse Gander (Japandroids, White Lung) at Rain City Recorders in Vancouver, BC. It was mastered by Alan Douches (Mastodon, Chelsea Wolfe) at West West Side Music in Hudson Valley, NY. Cover art was designed by Taylor Bourque.
DEAD QUIET « Truth and Ruin »
Out September 11th via Artoffact Records – PREORDER
Since its formation in Vancouver in 2014, DEAD QUIET has toured with the likes of John Garcia (Kyuss) and Cancer Bats, and played festivals like Desertfest and Into the Void. In league with frontman and former Barn Burner Kevin Keegan, are guitarist Brock MacInnes, also of Anciients, newest member Mike Rosen on keyboards, and the rhythm section of bassist Mike Grossnickle and drummer Jason Dana.
« One of the most imaginative but reassuringly bludgeoning examples of post-millennial Iommi-worship currently available to human ears… Veering from full-throttle metal riffing to swirling, woozy psychedelic squalls with the ease of intuitive masters, they sound like a band that simply understand what makes heavy music tick and why enduring ideas are very often the best ones. » – Metal Hammer
DEAD QUIET is:
Kevin Keegan – vocals, guitar
Brock MacInnes – guitar
Mike Grossnickle – bass
Mike Rosen – keyboards, backing vocals
Jason Dana – drums
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