Warish (Tony Hawk's son Riley) premiere new track via Kerrang from forthcoming RidingEasy Records debut

"Sludgy garage punk with truly evil vocals that are coated in just the right amount of distortion and echo. Come for the rowdy punk, stay for the slowed-down Sabbathy bridge." -- Brooklyn Vegan

"Warish totally rules... An awesome mixture of punk energy, biker rock fuzz, and grunge growl." -- Kerrang!

Southern California trio Warish premiere a new track from their forthcoming debut EP on RidingEasy Records today via Kerrang Magazine. Hear and share Warish's cover of "Human Being" by Lobby Loyde's cult Australian band Coloured Balls HERE.

Brooklyn Vegan also recently shared lead track "Fight" HERE. (Direct YouTube.)

Imagine if Incesticide era Nirvana were crossed with Static Age era Misfits. You'd have sinister low budget horror rock with a visceral, twisted weirdness and bludgeoning riffs. Some might call it nightmarish, we call it Warish. 

Warish is a very newly minted SoCal trio formed in early 2018 that has wasted no time making its presence known. The band formed when guitarist/vocalist and pro-skater Riley Hawk (son of skating legend Tony Hawk) and drummer Bruce McDonnell decided they wanted to try their hand at something more distinct than they'd done previously.

"We wanted to do simpler riffs and a fun live show," Riley explains. "A little more punk, a little bit of grunge... a little evil-ish."

Their sound takes cues from a variety of cool underground sounds and twists it all into an energetic and exciting fist to the face of dark fury. Hawk's effect-laden vocals hearken to early Butthole Surfers and David Yow's tortured caterwaul in Scratch Acid. The guitars are heavy and powerful, though decidedly not straightforward cookie cutter punk; more like Cobain's and Buzz Osbourne's wiry contortions. The rhythms bash and pummel right through it all with aggressive force ensuring that nothing gets overly complicated and the horrors keep coming throughout the 5-track, 11-minute debut.

Warish will be available on 7" vinyl and download on February 1st, 2019 via RidingEasy Records. Pre-orders are available HERE. 

Artist: Warish

Album: Warish

Label: RidingEasy Records

Release Date: February 1st, 2019

01. Bones

02. Voices

03. Fight

04. Human

05. Shivers

On The Web:

instagram.com/warish.usa

facebook.com/Warishband

ridingeasyrecs.com

Pink Mexico (Burger Records) share first track from forthcoming album 'Dump'

"Landing somewhere between My Bloody Valentine's poppiest moments and Wavves least bratty missives, the result is something like if Nirvana had had a surf rock phase." -- Noisey

"The kind of fuzzy, driving garage punk that you can always trust Burger to put out." -- BrooklynVegan

Brooklyn, NY trio Pink Mexico share the first track from their forthcoming third album Dump today via surf/skate culture outlet What Youth? Hear and share the garage-grunge surf-pop track "High Dive" HERE. (Direct Soundcloud and Bandcamp.) 

Dump will be released March 1st, 2019 on cassette and digital via Burger Records and vinyl via Little Dickman Records.

After playing drums for countless other bands, including Shilpa Ray, WALTZ and Lola Pistola, Robert Preston Collum went for a change and began his solo project, Pink Mexico. After moving from Brooklyn to Los Angeles, Preston self-released the first Pink Mexico LP, pnik mxeico in June of 2013, attracting the attention of Austin-based record label Fleeting Youth Records, who then re-released pnik mxeico the following December. 

Preston relocated to Brooklyn in the fall of 2014 to begin recording his next album while continuing other releases: a split 7" with Los Angeles-based band, SunLikeDrugs as well as a 12" vinyl pressing of pnik mxeico by Bordeaux, France based label Big Tomato Records. The underground buzz surrounding the first LP led Preston into the Burger Records family. Following countless Brooklyn shows and making the rounds at this year's SXSW, Pink Mexico has grown as a band comprised of Grady Walker & Ian Everall.

After the release of Fool via Burger Records Summer 2016, Pink Mexico toured as direct support for Honus Honus (aka Man Man) for his "Use Your Delusion" Tour in November 2016. Spending most of 2017 and 2018 dedicated to recording Dump, the 3rd studio album with Jeremy Scott (Vivian Girls, These Are Powers) at Civil Defense in Brooklyn, NY. The band relentlessly toured North America to support Fool, while Collum also played drums on the new Lola Pistola record Curfew and went out on tour in support of the album in early 2018.

Unlike previous records, where Collum manned all instruments, this release includes both Everall and Walker on bass and drums, respectively.  

Artist: Pink Mexico Album: Dump Record Label: Burger Records / Little Dickman 01. Thumbsucker 02. High Dive 03. Prescription Overdose 04. Dirty & Stupid 05. Sex Happiness  06. Girlfriend 07. WSLY 08. Shit River 09. Rattle Brain 10. Fuckhead 11. Liberty Kid 12. Psycho Juice 13. Heartfist On the Web: pinkmexi.co instagram.com/pink_mexico facebook.com/flamingpinkmexico

...And You Will Know Us by the Trail of Dead reissue classic album Madonna on Super Secret Records

"...Ushering in a new breed of punk." 8.4 -- Pitchfork (ca. 1999)

Austin, TX quartet ...And You Will Know Us by the Trail of Dead announce the special ltd. edition vinyl release of the band's classic album Madonna for its 20th Anniversary. Originally issued on Merge Records, the remastered vinyl edition is available for pre-order starting today from Austin label Super Secret Records. 

The LP will be available on the band's upcoming tour in the EU, UK and Japan, and in limited quantities from Super Secret direct on March 5th. Pre-orders are available at the label's Big Cartel webstore HERE. 

...AND YOU WILL KNOW US BY THE TRAIL OF DEAD LIVE:

01/30 Paris, FR @ La Petit Bain

02/01 London, UK @ The Garage

02/02 Birmingham, UK @ Castle & Falcon

02/03 Newcastle, UK @ Riverside

02/04 Leeds, UK @ Brudenell Social Club

02/05 Bath, UK @ Komedia

02/06 Manchester, UK @ Manchester Academy

02/07 Glasgow, UK @ The Art School

02/08 Oxford, UK @ O2 Academy

02/09 Bedford, UK @ Esquires

02/10 Cambridge, UK @ The Haunt

02/12 Antwerp, BE @ Trix

02/13 Groningen, NE @ Vera

02/14 Utrecht, NE @ Tivolivredenburg

02/16 Zurich, CH @ Mascotte

02/19 Dusseldorf, DE @ ZAKK

02/21 Schorndorf, DE @ Manufaktur

02/22 Erlangen, DE @ E-Werk

02/23 Bologna, IT @ Covo Club

02/25 Dresden, DE @ Beatpol

02/26 Mainz, DE @ KUZ

02/27 Onsabruck, DE @ Bastard Club

03/04 Tokyo, JP @ Club Quattro

03/05 Tokyo, JP @ Shindalta Fever

Artist: ...And You Will Know Us by the Trail of Dead

Album: Madonna

Label: Super Secret Records

Release date: March 5th, 2019

01. And You Will Know Them...

02. Mistakes and Regrets

03. Totally Natural

04. Blight Takes All

05. Claire De Lune

06. Flood of Red

07. Children of the Hydra's Teeth

08. Marc David Chapman

09. Up From Redemption

10. Aged Dolls

11. The Day the Air Turned Blue

12. A Perfect Teenhood

13. Sigh Your Children

On The Web:

supersecretrecords.com

FIREBREATHER sign to RidingEasy Records, announce tour with Conan

Gothenburg, Sweden trio Firebreather have signed to L.A. purveyors of heavy, RidingEasy Records for worldwide release of future recordings. The band also launch a series of dates supporting Conan next week. Please see dates below.  There's no escaping the fact that Sweden is an incomparable breeding ground for some of the heaviest and most crushing metal bands. One such band is Gothenburg trio Firebreather, who've released their self-titled debut album on Suicide Records, October 13th, 2017.  Relatively new to the fold having formed in the spring of 2016 from the ashes of underground doom heavyweights Galvano, Firebreather is a devastatingly weighty statement of intent. Tooth shattering riffs from guitarist/vocalist Mattias Nööjd and crunching rhythms via bassist Kyle Pitcher and drummer Axel Wittbeck, Firebreather are a jaw-breaking triptych of sludge and doom rock. FIREBREATHER LIVE: 01/24 Hull, UK @ Gorilla *  01/25 Brighton, UK @ Green Door * 01/26 Nottingham, UK @ Stuck On a Name Studio - SOLD OUT * 01/27 London, UK @ The Black Heart * 01/28 Sheffield, UK @ Record Junkie * * with Conan On The Web: firebreather.bandcamp.com facebook.com/Firebreathergbg ridingeasyrecs.com

"Jam of the Week" Quin Galavis shares video from forthcoming album via CvltNation, Austin songwriter announces 3-album series for 2019

"Much like Paul Westerberg, Galavis proves to have a penchant for writing songs that are are fast and at times heavy while still managing to be insanely catchy." -- Glide Magazine "Jam of the Week: Are you ready for an urgent jam that will get all up in your brain and will live rent free?" -- CvltNation Austin, TX songwriter Quin Galavis shares an eerie POV video for the lead single "Burn The Room" from his forthcoming album Victim / Non-Victim, Pt. 1 today via CvltNation. Watch & share HERE. (Direct YouTube.) Quin Galavis returns February 15th with another brilliant album of emotionally raw and revealing music that deftly leaps between heavy experimentalism and catchy melodies. Victim / Non-Victim, Pt. 1 launches a 3-album series to be released throughout 2019 on Super Secret Records.  "This record I wrote after an intense period in my life," Quin explains. "I decided to approach this record as a way to confront all the things that created the feelings and characters in my double album My Life In Steel And Concrete and in the process confront all the things that has driven me to art and self destruction, so where MLISAC was expressing a sense of uncertainty and resignation, this record is truly a way to find out why I am the way I am and what abuses I have been through and the abuse I deliver on others. So, I am going to have to spread it out in three records! These records aren't just going to be a cathartic thing like MLISAC, but more as a purge of my old life and finally a reset." The album includes many wonderful eclectic players on the songs; Graham Low (A Giant Dog), Victor Gutierrez (Impalers,Vaaska), Natalie Ribbons (TeleNovella, Agent Ribbons), Jason Chronis (Voxtrot, TeleNovella), Jenny Arthur (Lung Letters, The Dead Space) and many more.  Quin Galavis has built a strong reputation for producing a variety of high quality music via acclaimed bands including Nazi Gold and The Dead Space, and through his previous solo work. Unpredictable and experimental from record to record and from live performance to live performance, Quin Galavis continues to challenge himself and his audience to reconsider and subvert what it means to be an artist and musician. Victim / Non-Victim, Pt. 1 will be available on LP, CD and download on February 15th, 2019 via Super Secret Records.

Artist: Quin Galavis Album: Victim / Non-Victim Label: Super Secret Records Release date: February 15th, 2019 01. Theme 1 02. Our Loved Ones 03. Not Aware 04. It's Golden 05. This Real Home 06. Burn The Room 07. What It Takes 08. Thunder 09. Anthem 10. This Water On The Web: quingalavis.com supersecretrecords.com facebook.com/quin.galavis twitter.com/QuinGalavis instagram.com/quin_galavis/

Greek rockers BUS share "I Buried Paul" via The Obelisk from forthcoming RidingEasy Records debut

"A fantastic combination of crazy fun rock that also happens to be stupid catchy." -- Metal Injection

"The what-if-the-Beatles-were-also-Primus-but-Primus-were-the-Melvins-and-also-Kyuss-is-there-because-that's-fun bounce of "I Buried Paul."...(BUS) confidently deliver hooks that are non-overbearing earworms -- the kinds of songs you don't realize are in your head until they already are." -- The Obelisk

Athens, Greece quartet Bus The Unknown Secretary (aka BUS) premiere a new track from their forthcoming album on RidingEasy Records today via The Obelisk. Hear and share "I Buried Paul" HERE. (Direct YouTube.)

Metal Injection recently shared the stomping anthem "You Better Come In, You Better Calm Down" HERE. (Direct YouTube.)

From the opening notes of Never Decide, you'll know it's going to be a wild funhouse ride. It doesn't sound like just four people, it sounds like a mob of wild-eyed lunatics on the expressway to your skull. And, you're not gonna know what the band's name means, don't worry about it. 

Heavy bands typically don't know how to make music fun. We're not talking about goofy, novelty rock, which BUS certainly is not. We're talking clever, spirited and anthemic rock that doesn't get bogged down in trying to sound menacing. Never Decide is a multifaceted album in the vein of classic hitters like The Hellacopters, Alice Cooper Band, Judas Priest, Iron Maiden and Orange Goblin. 

"The story of the album expresses the psyche of a person in a dead end and his life is introduced into obsessive rhythms, more personal and random," explains vocalist/guitarist Bill Politis. "There is no happy end here, but the questions remain: Door A or Door B? Time to change or time to die, Never Decide!"

The album opens as if we're in the studio with the band listening to playback for the first time. There's a chirping test tone and someone starts counting in, "one, two, three..." before it suddenly grinds to a halt. Then suddenly the swirling guitar riff of the pummeling anthem "You Better Come In, You Better Calm Down" launches everything into the stratosphere. The guitars march in lockstep as swinging drums keep it all rolling at furious pace as the vocal chant of the song's title grows into a massive group chant in harmony. Think Uriah Heep's "Easy Livin'" meets Kiss' "Rock and Roll All Night" -- here's another big, blazing anthem for the ages. "I Buried Paul" is the sort of fun, theatrical album track no one makes anymore, not since the days of the Alice Cooper Band. "Lucifer" takes things several shades darker, turning in a dramatic ballad launched by haunting piano chords and led by sinister, sneering vocals sounding something like Ozzy meets Johnny Rotten slowly building to its epic conclusion in double time with rinigng harmony guitar leads. "Evil Eyes" and "Moonchild" return the proceedings to the anthemic, pop-laced vibe, replete with major-minor chord shifts and vocal/guitar harmonies galore. 

Never Decide was recorded in just 5 days in February 2018 with multitalented engineer and band's beloved friend John Vulgaris at Electric Highway Studios in Athens, Greece. The entire band -- drummer Aris Fasoulis, bassist Spiros Papadatos, and guitarists Fotis Kolokithas and Politis --recorded the instrumental tracks live in 3 days, reserving the last 2 for vocals. Over the 2 months that followed Vulgaris and the band fine-tuned the mix into the subtle and clever masterwork you have before you. 

BUS formed in Athens in 2011, releasing two EPs and a full length The Impious Tapes, followed by The Cross EP (2014), and The Unknown Secretary LP in 2016. During that time the band has toured extensively throughout Greece and in neighboring nations. The release of Never Decide will see them expanding that touring radius considerably. 

Never Decide will be available on LP, CD and download on March 1st, 2019 via RidingEasy Records. Pre-orders are available HERE. 

Artist: BUS

Album: Never Decide

Label: RidingEasy Records

Release Date: March 1st, 2019

01. You Better Come In, You Better Calm Down

02. The Hunt

03. I Buried Paul

04. Lucifer

05. Moonchild

06. Into the Night

07. Evil Eyes

On The Web:

facebook.com/bustheunknownsecretary

ridingeasyrecs.com

Bay Area thrash revivalists HELL FIRE share first track via Kerrang from RidingEasy Records debut

"Lots of thrash bands do their best to sound retro, but Hell Fire manage to sound classic." -- Kerrang!

San Francisco quartet Hell Fire premiere the title track from their forthcoming third album Mania today via Kerrang Magazine. Hear and share "Mania" HERE. (Direct YouTube.)

Mania is the band's first proper album on RidingEasy Records, following on the label's worldwide reissue of the band's self-released 2017 sophomore breakout, Free Again to be released on January 18th. 

Formed in recent years in San Francisco, though it may seem more likely that they hatched fresh out of a time travel portal from the mid-80s Bay Area thrash scene, Hell Fire have the classic look and sound of modern metal's halcyon days. Hell Fire's sonic assault warmly condenses elements of influences like Angel Witch, Iron Maiden, Rainbow, Exodus, Metallica, Riot, Virtue and Diamond Head into 10 tracks of headbanging MUYA anthems. 

The free-wheelin' creativity and infectious vitality of the 80s Bay Area thrash scene is a moment forever locked in time, but its spirit lives on in the band's galloping guitar picks, soaring harmonies and blistering rhythms. Hell Fire's perfect hybrid of NWOBHM theatrics and American thrash attitude.

"Thematically, everything on the album comes from personal experiences," says vocalist/guitarist Jake Nunn. "From the highs of partying together out here in Oakland, or the nostalgia of being a kid learning Zeppelin on a beat up guitar, to the extreme lows of isolation, personal trauma, and mental illness. Sonically we want our records to sound like you're standing in front of the stage at a show. The power of Marshall stacks in front of your face, drums at your ear level, thunder of the bass and feeling the presence of the room."

Hell Fire achieves just that - and then some - on Mania. The album was recorded in Grass Valley, California at engineer Tim Green's Louder Studios. Having also recorded their previous album Free Again with Green, the sessions proved highly productive for the band since they were already familiar with the setting and able to expand upon ideas they hadn't been able to explore previously. 

"We're more excited about Mania then anything we've ever done," Nunn says. "We were able to spend a bit more time arranging the songs and writing from a more personal perspective lyrically. We came out of this recording feeling much more accomplished with our performances and couldn't be more happy for this to be our first release with RidingEasy Records."

Hell Fire began when bass player Herman Bandala moved to San Francisco from Tijuana, Mexico with the hopes of forming a heavy metal band. Herman posted an ad to Craigslist which caught the attention of guitarist Tony Campos. They bonded over a mutual love of 80s thrash and NWOBHM, which was a hard thing to find in the Bay Area scene at the time. The lineup slowly morphed over time, finally solidifying with vocalist Jake Nunn also taking up second guitar duties and drummer Mike Smith joining prior to 2017's Free Again. 

Mania will be available on LP, CD and download on March 29th, 2019 via RidingEasy Records. Pre-orders are available HERE.

Artist: Hell Fire

Album: Mania

Label: RidingEasy Records

Release Date: March 29, 2019

01. Warpath

02. Mania

03. On The Loose

04. Born To Burn

05. Transcending Evil

06. Lashing Out

07. Isolator

08. The Dreamer

09. Knights of The Holy

10. Masochist

On The Web:

hellfiremetal.com

hellfiremetal.bandcamp.com

instagram.com/hellfiremetal

ridingeasyrecs.com