LIGHTNING BORN (featuring Corrosion of Conformity's Mike Dean) Releases New Video ‘Shifting Winds’ | Band to Release Self-Titled Debut Album This Month
Lightning Born by Lightning Born is officially released on
21st June 2019
Stream and share new song ‘Shifting Wind' –
https://www.revolvermag.com/music/lightning-born-hear-coc-bloody-hammers-members-evoke-sabbath-doomy-new-song
Pre-order the album now at www.ripple-music.com
Raleigh,
NC metal band Lightning Born,
featuring bassist Mike Dean (Corrosion of Conformity), vocalist Brenna Leath
(The Hell No), drummer Doza Hawes (Mega Colossus, ex-Bloody Hammers; ex-Hour of
13) and guitarist Erik Sugg (Demon Eye) will release its debut album Lightning
Born this June.
A first taste of Lightning Born's flash can be experienced
now over at Revolver with the album's lead track and first music video,
'Shifting Winds. "Taking cues from genre forebears Black Sabbath, the
sludgy track ambles through several leaden, downtempo riffs before vocalist
Brenna Leath's haunting wail enters with a tale of fiery destruction and
rebirth." The animated clip was created by artist Costin Chioreanu for
Twilight13 Media (Ghost, Darkthrone, Triptykon). Stream and share new song
‘Shifting Wind' –
https://www.revolvermag.com/music/lightning-born-hear-coc-bloody-hammers-members-evoke-sabbath-doomy-new-song
Formed in 2016, Lightning Born plays heirloom doom metal
forged by previous generations and full of practiced rawness, washed out and
sandblasted with layers of fuzz. The band's sound is based in an offshoot blues
language, gently mournful, that descends into iconic gloom, buttressed by the
commanding vocals of Leath, whose lyrical landscape aerates themes of
revolution, mortality, brotherhood, consequence, colonization, nihilism,
oppression, and revolution.
As to Lightning Born's formation, Dean explains, "I
share a studio, where we have done most of the work on the last several
Corrosion of Conformity records. I traded some studio time for a 2” analog tape
machine and started making records with local musicians. One of those was
Brenna Leath, whose voice and songwriting blew me away when she came in with
her punk band, The Hell No."
"On another occasion I had the opportunity to work with
an accomplished retro doom/proto-metal band called Demon Eye. They recorded an
album called Prophecies and Lies with me. Singer and guitarist Erik Sugg
mentioned that he and Brenna were teaming up on some new material with a
drummer namer “Dozer” or “Dosa”, something like that. It turns out to was Doza
Hawes whose main gig, outside of writing robotics manuals, was playing over the
top Iron Maiden style drums in Mega Colossus. My impression was that this would
be a retro alternate universe aesthetic and I was excited. They mentioned they
needed a bass player and I must have invited myself to try out. We made
recordings on the run, after work, and between tours. Eventually we had a
record, and we are, Ripple Music recording artists."
As for the band's name, Hawes explains: "My son Evan
and I were watching Carl Sagan’s Cosmos and he got really excited about the
theory that lightning spawned the first complex molecules that eventually led
to life on Earth. He said, “We are all born from lightning," and I thought
that was a cool phrase. So we flipped that around into Lightning Born, which
sounded like a proper, timeless rock band name. Who says watching old school
public TV is a waste of time?"
Prior to recording its debut, the freshly anointed Lightning
Born honed its sound on stage, performing over two dozen live sets at high
profile shows with The Obsessed, Lo-Pan, Earthless, The Sword, Ruby the
Hatchet, Red Fang and more as well as appearances at the Maryland Doom Fest and
Hopscotch Music Festival.
Lightning Born by Lightning Born is officially released on
21st June 2019
Stream and share new song ‘Shifting Wind' –
https://www.revolvermag.com/music/lightning-born-hear-coc-bloody-hammers-members-evoke-sabbath-doomy-new-song
Pre-order the album now at www.ripple-music.com
TRACK LISTING:
1. Shifting Winds
2. Renegade
3. Silence
4. You Have Been Warned
5. Salvation
6. Magnetic
7. Out For Blood
8. Power Struggle
9. Oblivion
10. Wildfire
11. Godless
Artist: Lightning Born
Album: Lightning Born
Label: Ripple Music
Release Date: 21/06/2019
Format: CD/LP/Digital
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