{"id":3062,"date":"2019-10-29T11:11:07","date_gmt":"2019-10-29T10:11:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.cruzdelsurmusic.com\/?p=3062"},"modified":"2019-10-29T11:11:10","modified_gmt":"2019-10-29T10:11:10","slug":"new-york-city-metal-brigade-tower-joins-cruz-del-sur-music","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cruzdelsurmusic.com\/blog\/index.php\/2019\/10\/new-york-city-metal-brigade-tower-joins-cruz-del-sur-music\/","title":{"rendered":"New York City Metal Brigade TOWER Joins CRUZ DEL SUR MUSIC"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"400\" height=\"500\" src=\"https:\/\/www.cruzdelsurmusic.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/foto_promo_web2-400x500.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-3063\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.cruzdelsurmusic.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/foto_promo_web2-400x500.jpg 400w, https:\/\/www.cruzdelsurmusic.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/foto_promo_web2-600x750.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.cruzdelsurmusic.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/foto_promo_web2-240x300.jpg 240w, https:\/\/www.cruzdelsurmusic.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/foto_promo_web2.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Cruz Del Sur Music <\/strong>is proud to announce the signing of New York City\u2019s own <strong>TOWER<\/strong>.\nThe label will release the band\u2019s sophomore full-length in mid-2020. <br \/>\n<br \/>\nFormed in 2015, <strong>TOWER<\/strong> plays a brand of classic, traditional metal\ninspired by legends such as <strong>JUDAS PRIEST<\/strong> and <strong>SCORPIONS<\/strong>, further\npropelled by the imitable, almost Pat Benatar-esque vocals of <strong>Sarabeth Linden<\/strong>.\nTo date, <strong>TOWER<\/strong> has one studio album to their credit, 2016\u2019s self-titled,\nas well as this year\u2019s <strong>\u201cTomorrow &amp; Yesterday\u201d <\/strong>EP. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Shortly after the release of the video for <strong>\u201cRun\nFor My Life\u201d<\/strong>, multiple record companies came calling for <strong>TOWER,<\/strong>\nincluding <strong>Cruz Del Sur<\/strong>. What sealed the deal for <strong>TOWER<\/strong> and <strong>Cruz\nDel Sur<\/strong>, though, was the good word put in by some of the label\u2019s existing\nbands. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed-youtube wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"TOWER - RUN FOR MY LIFE\" width=\"980\" height=\"551\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/M2o-Qc6iz10?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cWe\u2019re close\nfriends with <strong>Nate<\/strong><strong> Honor<\/strong> and <strong>Jim Hunter<\/strong>, whose bands <strong>SANHEDRIN<\/strong> and\n<strong>TWISTED TOWER DIRE<\/strong> are\/were on <strong>Cruz\nDel Sur<\/strong>,\u201d says guitarist <strong>James Danzo<\/strong>. \u201cWe heard so many good things\nabout <strong>Cruz<\/strong> that it was pretty clear\nfrom the beginning which route we should take. In the few years we\u2019ve been a band, we\u2019ve learned not to rush\ninto things and to be very deliberate,\nbut we know we made the right choice!\u201d <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Danzo<\/strong> describes the first four years of <strong>TOWER<\/strong>\u2019s\nexistence as a \u201creal wild ride,\u201d with the band (who is rounded out by second\nguitarist <strong>Zak Penley<\/strong>, bassist <strong>Jeff Filmer<\/strong> and drummer<strong> Claire\nVastola<\/strong>) going from formation to the demo stage, to playing shows, then\nscoring their first record deal for the release of their self-titled album. \u201cIn\nthis crazy world of ours\nnot everything is ice cream sundaes and cherries on top \u2014 we\u2019ve been through some changes with lineups and labels when\nit became clear we had different goals in mind. We\nlook back with pride on our debut album\nand especially the new EP. It\u2019s been a huge boost in morale and poured gasoline on the fire inside us!\u201d <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The origins of <strong>TOWER<\/strong> date back to\nwhen <strong>Linden<\/strong> and <strong>Danzo<\/strong> were playing in <strong>THE PSYCHO HIPPIES<\/strong>,\na group that primarily played \u201950s, \u201960s and \u201970s pop covers, along with some <strong>RAMONES<\/strong>\nsongs to boot. Because of her experience playing such music,<strong> Linden<\/strong>\nbrings a unique brand of soul and style to metal, with <strong>Danzo<\/strong> noting she\neven sang at the legendary Apollo Theater as a teenager. Fret not true metal\nbelievers: <strong>Linden<\/strong>\u2019s vocal idol happens to be <strong>Ronnie James Dio<\/strong>,\nfurther rounding out a band who is equal in music and image. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><br \/>\n\u201cMetal bands love to say, \u2018we hate image!\u2019\u201d\nnotes <strong>Danzo<\/strong>, \u201cbut truth be told, we have a vision and are very protective of it. It\u2019s important\nto us to come across as real, first and\nforemost. Everyone in the band has a unique style and persona and we aren\u2019t about to mess with it. We try to avoid\nclich\u00e9s when it comes to album covers, too \u2014 so\nfar photographs have worked, they\u2019re just\nclassic and real. We\u2019re just here to kick some ass and I think that comes across clear as day.\u201d <br \/>\n<br \/>\n<strong>TOWER<\/strong> will fill up the rest of 2019 with occasional live duty,\nbut the priority remains to get ready for their forthcoming second studio\nalbum. <strong>Danzo<\/strong> says \u201clack of material has never been a problem\u201d for <strong>TOWER<\/strong>:\nThe band has three songs leftover from the <strong>\u201cTomorrow &amp; Yesterday\u201d<\/strong>\nsession, as well as another cut that has already been aired live. <br \/>\n<br \/>\n\u201cUnlike the last two releases which took forever\nin spaced-out sessions from weekend to\nweekend, we plan on blocking out 7-10 days of studio time and doing it as a\nconcise and complete project like a band\nwould do in the old days. Onward and upward!\u201d <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cruz Del Sur Music is proud to announce the signing of New York City\u2019s own TOWER. The label will release the band\u2019s sophomore full-length in mid-2020. Formed in 2015, TOWER plays a brand of classic, traditional metal inspired by legends such as JUDAS PRIEST and SCORPIONS, further propelled by the imitable, almost Pat Benatar-esque vocals [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,1588],"tags":[1392,1590,42,1591,1487,1589,76],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cruzdelsurmusic.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3062"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cruzdelsurmusic.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cruzdelsurmusic.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cruzdelsurmusic.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cruzdelsurmusic.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3062"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.cruzdelsurmusic.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3062\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3065,"href":"https:\/\/www.cruzdelsurmusic.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3062\/revisions\/3065"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cruzdelsurmusic.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3062"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cruzdelsurmusic.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3062"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cruzdelsurmusic.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3062"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}