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Blood of the Phoenix blend a mix of early 2000s metalcore with a new groove. Influenced heavily from the big choruses of Killswitch Engage to the djent-melodic verses of Periphery, they have brought a crisp unique sound to the genre.

My name is Peter Hansson 56 year man from Sweden. I played music since I was 11 years old. I started first with elecric organ from drums and now guitar. I’ve been in some bands over the years but is only a couple a years ago that I started to write songs and with a focus on Country music. I really like telling stories that’s the great about country music. I hope one day to write a hit and get a famous country singer to sing my songs.

Redgrave Jones is a Los Angeles – based singer, songwriter and multi-instrumentalist. Her music is best described as eclectic/alternative drawing influence from a wide array genres.

Eric Klein is a singer/ songwriter/ guitarist who has been entertaining audiences throughout the U.S. for over 40 years. His versatile songwriting and guitar playing is rooted in the diverse sounds of classic rock, blues, Americana, acoustic rock, and country. Eric’s musical journey began as a teenager in the late 1970’s in Upstate New York when a local musician showed him how to tune a beat-up acoustic he found in the basement. He and the guitar have been inseparable ever since. He continued his musical development while attending the University of Florida and Colorado State University in the 1980’s. In those music-rich environments, he wrote and performed with a variety of talented players and was introduced to the authentic sounds of local roots musicians; sounds that he incorporated into his guitar and songwriting styles. During this period, Eric’s rock bands were successful regional acts, opening for many well-known national artists. In the early 90’s Eric moved to Los Angeles and continued to refine his writing, recording, and performance skills. His knowledge of the craft of songwriting expanded as he attended numerous songwriting seminars, performances, and song critiques. He placed several original songs with three different music publishing companies. Since moving to the San Diego area in 2001, Eric has recorded extensively and held down lead guitar and vocal duties in several rock bands. He is currently plays lead guitar and provides background vocals in the north San Diego County bands FreeMartin and Cadillac Fringe.

Horse Trader is a lockdown concept. All recording was done remotely in various homes and the tracks mailed to one another. Huw and I are long time collaborators, and we recruited a few friends to contribute who had home recording gear to be able to do it. I [Paul] wrote all the songs and recorded them to a click track. This was the first step. I then sent the lot to Huw to add drums. Huw then sent the tracks to the next in line. I think 7/8 tracks went to Bruce, Doug got 3/4 and Mark had a couple. There was no plan. It was an organic experiment. We did it like this because there was no other option to making a recording. I’d call it a recording band, not a real band as such. We don’t have any plans to play live or for the band to continue once things revert to normal, well not at present anyway. The important aspects as far as the writing went, was to let it be a document of exactly where things stand for me in the present tense. The perilous political situation, the isolation, with some sci-fi flights of fancy and general remarks on the philosophic and some psychedelic references to the death rebirth cycle. Fixing the lens on the embarrassingly wealthy despots who run the world and are taking us to the brink of extinction, felt necessary. For this album we had a slightly different line-up to the first one, that was dictated by who was available. I gave very little instruction to any of the other contributors. I just told them to play what they felt like expressing. It was all done on trust and knowing each other well. I knew exactly what each would bring from playing together previously. It gave everyone room to be creative and not have any limiting parameters. There were a couple of things that were corrected or changed, mostly over the awkwardness of my songs, which don’t really follow any kind of recognisable songwriting template, as I use tunings and have developed my own way of doing things. I’m sure they’d have liked charts or chords as guides, but I don’t work that way. Giving them the key was about the only clue I gave them, hence on occasion some difficulty in translation. I’ve no idea what the chords are anyway. I just draw chord shape diagrams and note the tuning to remember them. Sometimes I don’t even do that, so after a while they become unfathomable to me as well! It’s a very loose, organic, intuitive process, with chance elements and happy accidents. I find this lack of conscious intent helps rather than hinder the creative process. Huw collated all the tracks, as he has lots of recording experience as he owns his own studio. He is far more experienced at this part than I am. Mark offered to mix and master the recordings.

Hailing from Albuquerque, New Mexico, Alternative Metal band Seven Days Rest came onto the music scene of Albuquerque New Mexico in late 2015. Leaning into their style, Seven Days Rest primarily uses the down-tuned heavy guitar sound of the mid-2000’s Alt-Metal scene and the darkly aggressive songwriting of modern Post-Hardcore/Metalcore. Their influences include Trivium, Breaking Benjamin, Slipknot, Nothing More, Three Days Grace, A Day to Remember, Our Last Night, and Jinjer. The band currently consists of vocalist Shay Raelynn, Guitarist Aris Zaffer, Bassist Julian Gunther, and Drummer Justyn Rippie. Their second full-length album is expected to release in spring 2022.

Sally Crosby is a British singer-songwriter who grew up in rural Mid Wales. A ukulele, piano and acoustic guitar-based singer-songwriter, her songs are honest and raw, impassioned and emotive. She started out in music at the tender age of five years old learning the piano, a few years later and she’d taken up the violin and the clarinet.Going on to study music and creative writing at university she found herself spreading her time between playing the violin in orchestras and with folk-rock band The Rambling Pilgrims, touring across the North Wales coast and Anglesey. Fresh out of graduation saw a new lease of life for Sally, who turned to writing for herself, mostly for piano and for acoustic guitar, an instrument she learnt as a teenager.In 2013 her first single emerged and in summer 2014 she appeared on the festival scene with a packed-out schedule of dates across England and Wales including Wakestock Festival alongside Tom Odell, Frank Turner and John Newman, and FOCUS Wales, a festival with a focus on promoting young Welsh talent which she played three years running. Bucket of Leaves EP went live on Spotify and iTunes in October 2014 with her track ‘Comet’ receiving airplay on BBC Radio 6, BBC Radio Wales and BBC Radio Shropshire. Sally’s second EP ‘All I Seem to Know How to Do Is Write Songs About You’ was released in April 2017 and is heavily ukulele based with her new songs having been previewed in a radio session and interview with Choice Radio in Gloucester. So far Sally has played a host of shows and sessions with a view to promote under the radar talent, such as Oak Sessions, The Narrowboat Sessions and Sofar Sessions.​ Sally’s latest singles “Good Enough” and “Beautiful” were released 2019 and 2020 respectively.

Tipsy McStagger? The question is simple. Straight ahead, no pulled punch’s, Rock and Roll. The music is catchy, the recording is quality, the songs are from the heart. Simple, foot stomping, Midwest rock and roll. What more can you say.

Adam Kukielski is a singer/songwriter from the Chicago suburbs. He developed his passion for playing guitar and songwriting in high school. Ever since then, Adam has been writing and playing for anyone that would like to listen. Seeking better music opportunities, he transferred from Iowa State to UIC. Though he’s excited to start his journey in Chicago, he misses being close to his girlfriend who still attends Iowa State.