New Albums Announced & New Music Videos From Sad Park, The Pink Spiders, Koyo & Chamber

 

SAD PARK
NEW ALBUM
NO MORE SOUND
TO BE RELEASED JULY 7NEW MUSIC VIDEO ALWAYS AROUND
OUT NOW

 

 

 

“ALWAYS AROUND is about wanting to get the most out of life, making sure that you are appreciating and loving the things and people around you,” says the band on the new song. “Accepting the hard times, pushing through and recognizing them as formative moments to appreciate and grow from.”
 
NO MORE SOUND is Sad Park’s third full length and first for Pure Noise Records. The band worked with AJJ’s Sean Bonnette, who oversaw production and collaborated with vocalist/guitarist Graham Steele on the lyric writing process, helped by bassist/vocalist Sam Morton, drummer Grant Bubar and guitarist Aidan Memory, not only creating a record that flows, musically and thematically, from beginning to end, but which also sees the four-piece truly discover and become who they are as a band.
 
“The theme of the album is summarized into four parts: Life, Death, Love, and Time,” says Steele. Recorded across ten days at Balboa Studios in Los Angeles, NO MORE SOUND is the sound of a band really coming into their own. It captures their chemistry perfectly, and as much fun as the band had making the record in general, it still manages to convey the band’s distinctively peppy sense of melancholy.
 
While Sad Park have always tapped into the human condition with their songs, they do so even more profoundly on this record.Sad Park will support The Frights in North America starting on Friday 2 June, before supporting AJJ throughout August.
 

 

 

 

 

 

 

NO MORE SOUND TRACK LISTING:
1. NO MORE SONGS
02. ALWAYS AROUND
03. OMW!
04. WATCH THE WORLD FALL DOWN
05. CAROUSEL
06. I CAN’T FIGHT IT
07. THE NEW SLOW
08. ART WILL BE GONE
09. DEATH
10. FALLING OVER YOU
11. MONEY IN THE BAG
12. PARKING LOT
13. NO MORE SOUND

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Photo Credit: Oliver Fitz

 

 

 

Celebrated Nashville rock phenoms THE PINK SPIDERS have announced their long-awaited, fifth studio album, Freakazoid, will be released on July 7th with Pure Noise Records. The band’s first record in five years overflows with mesmerizing hooks and dance-floor ready anthems that will remind listeners of their earlier music. The news comes on the heels of the band’s recent announcement of upcoming tours with Less Than Jake and Everclear.

In addition to revealing the release date, artwork and tracklisting, THE PINK SPIDERS have also debuted the record’s first new single, Devotion. For their new summer sing-along, the band celebrates the Nashville LGBTQIA+ community with a rollicking music video, directed and edited by Perry Bean (ACM, CMA and CMT-nominated video director), featuring a memorable performance alongside local drag queens to show solidarity against recent discriminatory laws. Drag on, queens!

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

FREAKAZOID TRACK LISTING:
01. Gold Confetti
02. Let’s Go Home
03. Devotion
04. Can’t Stop Letting You Down
05. Stoned To The Bone
06. Freakin’ Freakin’ Out
07. You’re The One
08. Baby I’m High
09. Cuttin’ Loose
10. Right Note

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Photo Credit: Rebecca Lader

 

 

Long Island upstarts Koyo have announced their debut full-length, Would You Miss It?, due out September 29th from Pure Noise Records. In just a few short years the band have been turning heads with their unabashedly heart-on-sleeve blend of punk, hardcore, and emo, and now Would You Miss It? makes good on that early promise with their most satisfying release to date.

To mark the announcement, Koyo have shared the album’s first single You’re On The List (Minus One). Driven by huge guitars and a heavyweight chorus, the track is a perfect introduction to Koyo‘s hyper-anthemic sound. The song’s accompanying music video is a tongue-in-cheek testament to the Koyo‘s ability to tie together different generations of East Coast punk and hardcore, featuring winking appearances from Frank Iero of My Chemical Romance, modern hc favs Regulate, photographer Michael Dubin, and producer Jon Markson. 

 

 

 

Emerging from the Long Island underground with members of Typecaste, Hangman, and Rain of Salvation, Koyo hit the ground running with a sonic style that fully embraces the sound of their legendary scene. Drawing on elements like the widescreen melodies of Taking Back Sunday or the tuneful grit of Silent Majority, the band have managed to wear their influences proudly while cultivating songwriting chops that speak for themselves. Would You Miss It? was recorded by Markson (Drug Church, Taking Meds, One Step Closer) and his deft production sounds gigantic without sacrificing the basement show rawness of Koyo‘s sound. It’s an album that figuratively and literally brings together the past and present of East Coast punk, with appearances from Glassjaw‘s Daryl Palumbo, The Movielife‘s Vinnie Caruana, and Vein.FM‘s Anthony DiDio. The result is a modern coming-of-age classic that’s fit for any generation of listeners. 

Koyo will be touring heavily in support of Would You Miss It?. The band’s busy schedule is currently in motion with a North American tour with No Pressure, with UK and EU tour dates to come.
 

 

 

 

 

 

 

WOULD YOU MISS IT? TRACK LISTING:
01. 51st State
02. You’re On The List (Minus One)
03. Life’s A Pill
04. I Might Not
05. Flatline Afternoon (feat. Anthony DiDio)
06. Anthem
07. Sayonara Motel
08. Message Like A Bomb (feat. Daryl Palumbo)
09. What’s Left To Say (feat. Vinnie Caruana)
10. Postcards
11. Crushed

 

 

 

Since forming in 2020, every single second of music recorded by Koyo has been completely and utterly genuine. Formed in Long Island, New York by five childhood friends who grew up together — vocalist Joseph Chiaramonte, guitarists Harold Griffin and TJ Rotolico, bassist Stephen Spanos, and drummer Salvatore Argento — Koyo’s music is the sound of Stony Brook summers flipping between Taking Back Sunday and Silent Majority while driving to the beach, living in songs that feel just like home. Three years after their formation — and hot on the heels of a slew of acclaimed EPs — Koyo is now taking their next step in the hallowed halls of Long Island hardcore with Would You Miss It?, the band’s debut album. Following in the footsteps of the giants of hardcore, pop-punk, and emo that came before them, Koyo are aware of the weight a debut album carries, and they’ve been slowly crafting it since the band’s earliest days. “We really slow-cooked this record,” says Chiaramonte. “There are songs on it that go back as far as being written just after Painting Words Into Lines came out. Even as we were writing for Drives Out East, we knew certain songs had to be allocated for certain things. We’d just keep them in the bank and develop them over time.”

Despite all the planning and tinkering, there’s nothing contrived about Would You Miss It?, because there’s nothing remotely manufactured about Koyo. Every element is a genuine representation of the people creating it, and the album was concocted in the most authentic way possible: with five friends, all together, writing songs. “We have great chemistry as a band and as songwriters,” says Griffin. “That’s the beautiful thing about Koyo, that we can sort of fit into everything. We never try to box ourselves in, because no matter what we do, it will still be us.” 

To fully immerse themselves in the recording process, Koyo decamped to a barn in rural New Jersey with producer Jon Markson (Drug Church, Regulate, One Step Closer) and spent six weeks digging into every detail of the record. The product is songs like You’re On The List (Minus One), Message Like A Bomb (ft. Daryl Palumbo), and Anthem, tracks that build upon Koyo’s established foundation, but feel sharper, stronger, and even more singalong ready. “This record was a labor of love,” says Chiaramonte. “Not just because of the work that went into it, but because of all the life experiences that shaped it. The record was a life-fulfilling, life-affirming thing to make, but it hurt a little bit to make, too.”

That’s no metaphor. Nearly every day working with Markson was a marathon 10-hour session with the band poring over every single detail to ensure their debut album met their expectations. Meanwhile, Griffin was learning how to walk again after an onstage accident precipitated a major ankle surgery. “The first week we were at the studio, I was in a wheelchair with my foot up and could not do anything,” says Griffin. “Three of the songs on the album were written from that wheelchair. I had a physical therapist a mile away from the studio, so I learned how to walk while living at this farm for six weeks.” 

For Chiaramonte’s part, the lyric writing process forced him to dig deep into himself. Musically, Koyo’s songs flow out of Griffin and Rotolico as naturally as a conversation at an all-night diner but, for Chiaramonte, writing lyrics proved to be a deeply introspective experience. He’d drive somewhere remote and sit for hours with a notepad until what filled the page was an honest, open-hearted sentiment. Life’s A Pill is a prime example, and a perfect encapsulation of the range of emotion Koyo captures throughout each of the tracks on Would You Miss It?. 

“‘That song is about a family member of mine passing away from a drug overdose when I was on my first full U.S. tour,” says Chiaramonte about Life’s A Pill. “Ultimately, I chose to stay on that tour. I didn’t want to grieve. I didn’t want to think about it. It was all so overwhelming that I just opted to shoulder how I was feeling, finish the tour, and deal with it another day. I found that I started to do that with a lot of things because I started to tour full time that year. There were so many interpersonal problems that I was just smothering. That song dives into that. The loss, the avoidance, and what I was doing mirrored what some people turn to drugs for. It’s a giant song about loss and escapism.” 

Would You Miss It? is the kind of album that could only be made by a group of self-proclaimed genre-obsessives. It’s why Koyo can seamlessly transition from playing the This Is Hardcore festival to opening for Bayside, because they make perfect sense no matter what bill they’re on. That natural musical dexterity is what fostered collaborations with Glassjaw’s Daryl Palumbo (Message Like A Bomb), Vinnie Caruana of The Movielife (What’s Left To Say), and Vein.FM’s Anthony DiDio (Flatline Afternoon) on songs where each part was written specifically with the guest vocalist in mind. Each person fits right into Koyo’s musical language, and expresses the range of sounds and feelings the band can express at any given time. 

Taken in full, Would You Miss It? is the coming-of-age tale of five friends joining together to take on the world. Fueled by a love for music, and a shared creative bond, Koyo sets the bar for the new wave of Long Island bands. As Chiaramonte notes on Anthem, a lyrical love letter to Long Island scenes of the past, present, and future, “the best is yet to come”.

Pay attention, because you won’t want to miss it. 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Rising Nashville metalcore agitators CHAMBER have announced the band’s return this July with the release of their highly anticipated second full-length record, A Love To Kill For, that’s due out July 14th from Pure Noise Records.

CHAMBER is giving fans a taste of the brutal, forthcoming record with the brand new single titled “Devoured,” also accompanied by a new music video.

 

Commenting on Devoured, the band says: “Devoured’ is essentially about people who don’t know when to give up on something. We wrote the whole song at the studio and tried to turn up the extremity in every way possible. Some skeletons for songs on the record were written beforehand, but this one was written in the studio in roughly an hour while we were jamming in the live room.”

The band’s savage new single, follows their tumultuous track, Tremble, released a few months back.

The massive riffs and neck-snapping breakdowns on tracks like Devoured and previously released track Tremble are a testament to the bands sonic brutality, a heaviness that can also be heard in their lyrical messages of A Love To Kill For.

“It’s an album about people getting lost or mired in bullshit, whether that’s addiction or narcissism or selfishness,” says guitarist Gabe Manuel. “There are all sorts of ways the people you love can fail you in search of themselves, and ways people don’t come back from that.”