![]() “He came up with the idea and sent something to me from New York, sent the basic idea. He is doing a great job of representing you guys down here,” Riley said from his home in Los Angeles, adding that Crawl, the first single from Renegades was penned by the returning Nickels. Kurt is such a great talent and a great singer and a great Canadian. And also, being originally from Boston, I am a big hockey fan too. I’ve got a lot of family up in Nova Scotia. His dad actually works for the Edmonton Oilers, so he’s a true Canadian. Now he’s in Florida, but he’s a Canadian all right, from Edmonton. We didn’t audition any singers, he was the first guy that we contacted through a friend in Las Vegas, where he was living at the time. And what a great find for us he has been, I’ve got to tell ya. Guns also features lead guitarist Scotty Griffin and Edmonton, Alberta native Kurt Frohlich as the band’s frontman. To kick things off, and tide self-isolating and social distancing fans over with some new material, the single Crawl was released on all digital streaming and download platforms on April 20.īesides Riley and Nickels, the lineup of L.A. Entitled Renegades, the album is expected to be released at some point this year. Guns, featuring original members Steve Riley and Kelly Nickels, was signed to a new management deal, got a new agent and inked a recording deal with rock label Golden Robot Records.īy the end of the calendar year, and entire album’s worth of material was written, recorded, mixed and mastered. Guns, featuring classic members Steve Riley and Kelly Nickels, is set to release their new album, Renegades, later this year.Īfter a successful appearance at the popular M3 Rock Festival in Maryland in August of 2019, L.A. It is simply supposed to be a cool metal album cover to pair with what we hope people will think is a cool metal album.Įvil and Divine drops May 14 on Frontiers Music SRL and pre-orders can be placed here.L.A. Not to mention, Tracii is Jewish and Michael's Christian beliefs are more than well documented, so we hope that everyone understands that neither of them in any way condone white supremacy and any interpretations that they are would be ludicrous. Nobody, and we mean nobody, involved in the process of creating and conceptualizing the artwork was thinking about anything remotely associated with white supremacy or any other hate groups who have co-opted symbols for their disgusting purposes. This was the concept of the album cover, not a flaming iron cross. On our cover, it is engulfed in flames, again, a take on our name, "Sunbomb". It symbolizes life and the four seasons associated with it. It is also known as a solar cross or wheel cross. Within the sun is a "sun cross" engulfed by flames. The album cover represents an explosion within the sun, a take on the band name Sunbomb, obviously. In the modern day, it has been linked with white supremacist views and neo-Nazi affiliates, which the band denounced outright while elaborating on their intent, also noting Tracii Guns is of the Jewish faith. ![]() Regarding the Evil and Divine album cover, Loudwire reached out to the band for clarification as the " sun cross" symbol depicted has held various meanings throughout thousands of years of human history. Listen to "No Tomorrows" toward the bottom of the page, where you'll also find the Evil and Divine artwork and track listing. I can’t wait for everyone to hear it! I’m honored to be a part of it." I think fans will love this album and although it’s reminiscent of some of the greatest metal bands of the past, it also has a fresh spin to it. "What I love about it is it’s definitely different not only for me, but for Tracii as well. "Traci sent me a song and I loved the vibe and then he eventually asked me to sing on the entire album," the singer elaborated. We hit it off right away and we obviously share the same love for metal," added Sweet. "Hard to believe that I met Tracii for the first time just a few years ago. When I heard the first vocal completed I was blown away by Michael’s voice," said Guns. "Sunbomb was an idea, then an experiment.
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