Music News - The Symphony of Screams Release 'Live & Unplugged' album
08 January 2015 - 0 Comments
Auckland-based group The Symphony of Screams describe their music as ‘grungy metal’, and to quote that bible of heavy, Kerrang! magazine, sounds like “NZ Napalm who hammer it home all the way.” Metal Music Archives magazine stated "If you enjoy grunge style metal, and want to hear one of the finest examples of that style you are ever likely to come across, this is it! ". The power and energy that TSOS bring to the stage is amply demonstrated by the fact that they were sought out by Capital C Productions to be the main New Zealand support act at the famous 2008 Rock to Wellington shows, where fans of more than 25,000 per night were treated to their brand of uncompromising rock assault.
When they released their second album Radio Candy in 2013, they undertook a special acoustic show at Auckland’s Nathan club rooms, which was recorded for posterity. Towards the end of 2014, having just completed a successful co-headline tour with label mates Seventy One Sunset, the band then took the opportunity to revisit the tapes from that night and shared them with some friends. The reaction was unequivocal, and everyone kept asking when they would be made available to fans, so here it is! In all there are eight songs, with seven taken from the first two albums plus the newer song Skyfall, which has rapidly become a concert favourite (and was performed on the recent Live At Galatos TV show).
It was recorded by Warren Keene (long time front of house and studio engineer) for TSOS and Ash Barrett, then mixed and mastered by absolute audio genius Markus Couldrey (who co-produced , mixed and mastered Radio Candy as well.)
Te Matera commented “It was a joy to present the songs in the way that many were originally written on acoustic instruments. The album is the gig in the raw with no studio overdubs: it is just us live and acoustic as we were that night. When we heard the mix we felt we really needed to put this out, it just sounds like us having a great time, and the crowd was really into it.... So, here it is”
The band will soon be going back into the studio to work on the third album, and there is some exciting news coming on the live front as well, which will please their ever-growing fan base.
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