US stoner/doom metal band Bandshee release new single »The Long Road« in honor of JRR Tolkien’s birthday!
Louisville, Kentucky based stoner/doom metal band Bandshee has unleashed new single and title track of their upcoming album »The Long Road«, set to release on January 31st, 2025.
Tracklist:
01. Two Timer
02. Doom And Gloom
03. 19 Lashes
04. The Long Road
05. Heavy On Main
06. Witch Wizard
07. Shadow
08. Avalanche
09. 19 Lashes For Deluxe MotherTruckers (Bonus Track)
Courtesy of Desert Bloom PR:
Bandshee premiere new single »The Long Road« to celebrate JRR Tolkien’s birthday!
“This is the best way possible for us to start out the new year. Anyone who’s followed Clean and Sober Stoner for the past couple years is probably familiar with Bandshee. They are one of the greatest unsigned bands I have ever heard, and I’m doing everything I can to make sure you get a chance to hear them!” – Clean and Sober Stoner
Listen to »The Long Road« HERE!
The deep lore behind title track »The Long Road«: “I was reading a lot of Robert Burns at the time and was also into classical guitar. I learned this arrangement of Auld Lang Syne and from that wrote the base part for »The Long Road« verses. I’d always wanted to adapt Burns’ final poem (song?) O, Wert Thou in the Cold Blast to modern english and put it to song myself, and that’s the basis for the first verse of lyrics. The phrase “old grey messenger” had been hanging around my notebook for a while, and it reminded me of Gandalf, and when I thought about it, Samwise Gamgee’s story, everything he did and went through, how he did shelter Frodo in many ways, reminded me a lot of the cold blast, so it just naturally transformed into Sam’s song. An amalgam of two concepts, I suppose, but it really made sense to me. I guess it still does.” – Bandshee
Photo by Lou Tingle
New album »The Long Road« out January 31st, 2025. Pre-order: bandshee.bandcamp.com
»The Long Road« is the first studio album from Bandshee in their hard rock incarnation. A collection of songs that stemmed from a common love of Lord of the Rings, »The Long Road« is a fuzzy, riff-driven rock escapade. The album began as a concept project based on Lord of the Rings and Led Zeppelin IV. The project evolved through the band’s exploration of heavier sounds and arrangements until most of the original tracks written about LOTR were dropped in favor of heavier tunes dealing with current, rather heavy issues. Of note, »19 Lashes« is about wealth disparity, »Heavy On Main« was written in response to the killing of Breonna Taylor by the Louisville police and the subsequent protests in Louisville, KY. »Witch Wizard« is about transphobia and gender identity in modern America. The album represents a sonic paradigm shift for a band that began very much rooted in classic rock, acoustic “singer-songwriter” and jazz.
Bandshee is based out of Louisville, KY, but plays regularly in Cincinnati, OH and Lexington, KY. We’ve toured through Ohio and Pennsylvania and recently extended our tendrils into Wisconsin for the Ride of the Living Dead.
Engineered, mixed and mastered by Jason Groves at The Sneak Attack Recording Co. in Lexington, KY.
Guest vocals on »Shadow« by Nick Teale.
Front cover by Cody Campbell and Paige Campbell.
Back cover by Chad Cooper and Cody Campbell.
Bandshee is:
Romana Bereneth – Vocals, Guitar
Stephen K. Phillips – Guitar
Mac McCammon – Bass
Chris Miller – Drums
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