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The Bloody Angle
2+ albums
hard rockmetalheavy rock
about
The Bloody Angle plays southern-fried swamp rock, with a touch of americana and a hint of country. Gritty guitars, lap-steel, and finger-picking support vocal harmonies and traditional keyboard tones. The sound conjures the southern countryside, civil war battlefields and backroad watering holes. Influences include Drive By Truckers, Jack White and Neil Young. The eponymous debut album will be available 10/16/12. The album was recorded entirely in the analog realm, at producer-songwriter Matt Singleton’s studio in the Central Virginia countryside. “We wanted to produce a record that was warm, immediate, and spontaneous.” quotes Singleton. “This album was a direct backlash against the modern style of making music... no edits, no grid, no auto-tune. We wrote and performed together in the room, and captured the songs as they came out, warts and all.” The songs toggle between personal stories and character driven studies. The common thread is the southern landscape, where the stories live among the soldiers, drunks, bible-thumpers and other characters that Singleton either encounters, inhabits, or pulls from the pages of history. The band is a group of battle-hardened music industry veterans. They are fathers, brothers, sons and husbands. They shoot, ride, drink, and play. They may be a little world-weary, but a good time can and will be had. “We have all been doing this a long time.” says Singleton. “The chemistry is there. It’s been a long time coming, and we are pretty pro
