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Butchers Of Sky Valley
10+ albums
Psychedelic Rockrockblues rock
about
As far as music is concerned, mystique makes all the difference. It's indefinable and immortal. It's as infectious as it is instantly recognizable. Butchers of Sky Valley possess that kind of aura. Underneath gusts of heavy distortion and murmurs of bombastic blues, the New York outfit unlocks psychedelic soul. Their self-titled 2013 debut for Heeled & Heavy Records, out on November 5, 2013, weaves a mystery worth pondering. That mystery also happened to be six years in the making. In 2007, singer songwriter Mike Mokotow and the band’s former guitarist John Cosenza began writing songs together on a whim. As their creative partnership progressed, life's ebb and flow immensely impacted their compositions. Both gentlemen married, while Cosenza enjoyed the birth of his first child and endured the loss of his father during those formative years (which Mokotow had also experienced in his own life a decade prior to the band’s formation). The songs reflected shards of those moments in a sonic pastiche. "So much happened over these past few years that it was hard not to pour ourselves into the music entirely," admits Mokotow. "There were a ton of changes. We faced both life and death. The album documents all of that, and it's a release. We wanted to make a cohesive piece. Now, it feels like a book from beginning to end." That "book" is set to one hell of a soundtrack. Rousing guitars give way to the vocalist's hypnotic crooning, while drums stomp below. The frontman describes the
