Melodic Revolution Records, Unified Past & RoSfest!

Melodic Revolution Records is thrilled to return to RoSfest as a vendor for our 6th year… we are celebrating our 10th year anniversary as a prog label and we will be located in the upstairs lobby of the theater throughout the 3 day festival beginning on May 5th.
 
We will be selling all of our current and new releases including releases by Murky Red, NeverWake, Darrel Treece-Birch, Marco Ragni, Leon Alverado, Nth Ascension, Sunshine & Bullets and DDrive to name a few, we will also be selling classic release by The Minstrels Ghost. Time Horizon, Corvus Stone, Kinetict Element, Anuryzm, Gekko Projket among others.
 
We are thrilled beyond belief to have MRR Recording Artist Unified Past confirmed to perform on day 2 of the festival.
 
Please stop by the booth and get all your favorite UNIFIED PAST releases. As usual we will have some very special announcements and surprises to make during the festival.
 
We will also have some cool MRR various artists CDs featuring tracks from our newest releases and Download Cards featuring unreleased up and coming and some best of MRR Releases as well as band Swag, so stop by the MRR vendor table located on the 2nd level of the Historic The Majestic Theater @ 25 Carlisle Street. Gettysburg, PA 17325. There will also be many other cool music vendors, so make sure you drop on by during this amazing event. We will be open between the live performances all weekend.
 

Other bands on the bill include: The Neal Morse Band, Anglagard, Moon Safari, The Fierce & The Dead, Edensong, The Aaron Clift Experiment, Evership, Kyros & Prognation

Links:
Melodic Revolution Records
http://mrrmusic.com/
Unified Past
http://www.unifiedpast.com/Unified_Past/Welcome.html
Rosfest
http://rosfest.com/

Melodic Revolution Records Feature Band | November 2016 (Pt 1) Sunshine & Bullets | Triangulum Mechanism 2014

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Melodic Revolution Records Feature Band  | November 2016 (Pt 1)

Sunshine & Bullets | Triangulum Mechanism 2014

 

Label: Melodic Revolution Records

Release Year: 2014

Country: USA

Genre: Alternative/Hard Rock/Indie Kill Metal/Female and Male Fronted

 

Band Members

Rich Keane Jr – Vocals/Guitar

Amanda Hamers – Vocals/Bass

Kyle Wolfram – Drums

Track Listing

Escape From Andromeda

…Go

Down

Accusation

Vilify

Give Them Hell

Pulse

Heartbeat

Don’t Fade Away

Truth Is

Risk

Now Or Never

Feel Good

Missing Pieces

Believe

Time

Forget

The End

Untold Stories

The Mechanism

 

Contact Links 

Sunshine & Bullets Official Website

Sunshine & Bullets Official Melodic Revolution Records Profile

Sunshine & Bullets Official Facebook Page

Sunshine & Bullets Official Reverbnation Profile

Sunshine & Bullets Official Twitter

Sunshine & Bullets Official YouTube Channel

Melodic Revolution Records Official Website

Melodic Revolution Records Official Store

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Florida has had a very rich musical lineage over the last 50 years or so. First in the later 1960’s to early 1970’s the band that really put Florida on the map originally was Lynyrd Skynyrd out of Jacksonville. They would later go on to influence something called ‘Southern Rock’. Soon bands such as Allman Brothers Band and .38 Special would follow road Lynyrd Skynyrd laid. Although ‘Southern Rock’ would be plagued with great loss and grief that did not stop the metamorphosis of the Florida music scene.

Meanwhile in the world of jazz and fusion another well developed jazz bassist Jaco Pastorius better known for his legendary work in Weather Report, Pat Metheny and Joni Mitchell. Jaco is still considered by many to this date the ‘Godfather Of Jazz Bass’ and that merit really can not be disputed. Jaco would later influence the likes of  Flea, Joni Mitchell, Sting, Wayne Shorter, Herbie Hancock, Geddy Lee, Bootsy Collins, Carlos Santana and even Metallica bassist Robert Trujillo who produced a film documenting the life of Jaco.

In the 1980’s the musical history of Florida would become a little richer in its heritage. This time in the realms of heavy metal music. While the United Kingdom and Los Angeles California were able to boast about their respective metal scenes, so would Florida on two metal fronts progressive power metal with bands such as Crimson Glory and Savatage. However Florida’s biggest metal export would be the late 1980’s to early 1990’s  ‘First Wave Of Death Metal’. In the ‘First Wave Of Death Metal’, bands like Brutality, Obituary, Deicide, Morbid Angel and Chuck Shuldiner’s DEATH would all give birth to the modern global death metal movement still going today. But there always seems to be newer artists and music movements in Florida.

One such band at the forefront of what I call Melodic Post Alternative Hard Rock is Sunshine & Bullets. In as much as the previous mentioned bands I spoke about within Florida’s rich musical history, I feel Sunshine & Bullets have an approach and unique distinctive sound that we will look back on 20 to 50 years from now and place them at the top of some rock family tree maybe not as much pioneers as they will be seen as innovators of music.

Florida seems to produce quality original bands in style, genre, approach and presentation. They never produce watered down clones that exist for the case of just existing. Sunshine & Bullets are a true originals in style, genre, approach, sound and presentation. With only three members in the band Rich Keane Jr – Vocals/Guitar , Amanda Hamers – Vocals/Bass, Kyle Wolfram – Drums, the band has seemed to carve their own way instead of following and produced their own unique and distinct sound that really can not compare to any of their modern day contemporaries.

Formed in 2010 the band has certainly seen its share of growing pains however have always had a way of falling right back on their feet and continue with growth and maturity for such a young band. The band’s official 2014 debut release Triangulum Mechanism proves that very fact. In a musical climate where the industry has a handful of producers creating cookie cutter crap and in a industry way too dependent on useless algorithm’s, Sunshine & Bullets really worked hard to form their own unique sound. Triangulum Mechanism is one of the most powerful yet professional modern debuts I have heard in the last 15 years.

On their 2014 debut Triangulum Mechanism the band truly has this less is much more post rock style atmosphere. They have removed most of the overdubbed tracks that some people think are needed with a band their size. I get this impression that they play live in studio during the recording process and later going back to do the vocals separately. This approach is also brilliant meaning that it provides the band with the confidence needed to perform what they do in studio out on a live setting on the stage. Amanda and Rich’s vocals not only play off the stringed narrative but also hit in the necessary places on the rhythm half of the music as a whole.

The band seems to put out the sound of a seven piece band with only three members. Although stripped down in size, Sunshine & Bullets manage to produce a huge and powerful fury within their chord progressions. A lot of this has to do with the seven string guitar played by Rich with the thunderous fury and grace on the bass from Amanda. Time and time again on the 20 tracks on Triangulum Mechanism the band manages to go outside the typical three chord progression 4/4 time signature and play and produce forth much fuller chord progressions that carefully ride the line between modern prog rock and modern post rock/metal.

Triangulum Mechanism is a conceptual/thematic album meaning their is not a central plot or conceptual story going on, it is more a common topic and theme of science fiction throughout the 20 tracks on the album. With 20 tracks it is a clear indicator of the great detail and care given to the album. This album is more crafted and recorded instead of just written and recorded. There are some wonderful segues between some tracks that are usually missing in the modern alternative post rock/metal circuits. The band totally displays a clear vision and carefully carries the vision to its final fruition. None of the tracks sound like the same thing over and over again. This album guarantees that the listener gets absolutely no time to get bored. There is something always changing up on a sonic level.

Triangulum Mechanism also is an open window into the band’s potential to not only write songs to appeal to the modern rock audience but also appeal to those who like their music heavier and extreme. This will be far more discussed in the other half of this band feature of the month when I go in and review their new full conceptual story EP titled The Centauri Conspiracies: Part 1”.- (The Awakening ) . The EP “The Centauri Conspiracies: Part 1” – (The Awakening) is far more heavy and brutal. You can go to  The Centauri Conspiracies: Part 1”- (The Awakening). As for Triangulum Mechanism I give this a 4.5/5 for careful attention to detail.

 

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Sunshine & Bullets To Release “The Centauri Conspiracies – Part 1 (The Awakening)”

US Rock Band Sunshine & Bullets return with their album “The Centauri Conspiracies – Part 1 (The Awakening)” the follow up to their very successful 2014 release, Triangulum_Mechanism.

The Centauri Conspiracies: Part 1 – The Awakening is the 6 song EP to preview what is to come with the release of the full album. Like Triangulum Mechanism, it is a concept album. This time, instead of focusing on going through life’s tough moments on a personal level, they switched to a wider view: the world.

The world has never been as interconnected, and although it seems that we have the access and ability to stay informed of what’s going on around us, we can never truly be sure of large-scale motives and intentions. Unfortunately, we live in interesting times, and that’s usually not a good thing.

The band hopes to raise awareness of the different kinds of distractions that we humans face in the world today. However, instead of condemning mankind into oblivion, the band wants people to use their passions to constructively inspire them to keep the peace between each other. Despite all the acts of hatred in the world, there is still hope for humanity… and we need to hold on to that hope with everything we got.

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Track Listing
01. Everyone’s Watching
02. You Wanted A War
03. Heads In The Sand
04. Divided we Stand
o5. Paralyzed
o6. Let the Giants Sleep

The Centauri Conspiracies: Part 1 – The Awakening is a passionate album inspired by the propaganda imposed on us by the media and leadership. As usual, we hope to enlighten and help you get through turmoil but see through the distractions. Elements of pop, hard rock, and metal. Male and female co-vocalists.

Music and Lyric by Sunshine & Bullets
Recorded, Mixed & Mastered by Gustavo Porras at Red Lion Studios in Orlando, Fl

The Centauri Conspiracies: Part 1 – The Awakening will be released worldwide on Tuesday November 1st, 2016
Catalog # MRRCD 22136
Format: CD and Hi Quality Digital Download

Sunshine & Bullets
Rich Keane Jr – Vocals/Guitar
Amanda Hamers – Vocals/Bass
Kyle Wolfram – Drums

Links:
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Sunshine & Bullets Media
sunshineandbullets@gmail.com

Label Contact
Melodic Revolution Records
Nick Katona
info@melodicrevolutionrecords.com