NYC volume dealers MIRROR QUEEN will release their new album, Verdigris, on October 27 via Tee Pee Records. Ahead of the big day, the band have just premiered a track from the album via Echoes And Dust.
LISTEN TO CURSE THE NIGHT HERE:
https://echoesanddust.com/2017/10/track-premiere-mirror-queen-curse-the-night/
Guitarist and vocalist Kenny Kreisor comments:
"Co-guitarist Morgan brought the main riffs to practice, and I started mumbling some words about seafaring and mirages. Only later did I discover a particular type of mirage often encountered at sea was called a Fata Morgana, and that Longfellow had written a poem concerning such. I figured this serendipity made it appropriate to borrow the closing lyrics from him, and an anthemic album-closer was brought to fruition!"
A masterclass of riff-driven melodic hard rock, Verdigris is the follow-up to the band's 2015's LP, Scaffolds of the Sky, hailed as "a masterful mix of genre-hopping, chops and songwriting" by Verbicide.
Combining edgy, street-level rock 'n' roll with more cerebral elements of poetry and literature, MIRROR QUEEN rides hard and loud, kicking out the jams at every opportunity. Here the songs are expansive and lush in their textures, with ethereal songwriting full of crossing guitar lines and an insistent, demanding rhythmic throb. Featuring additional guitars from SWANS six-stringer Norman Westberg, Verdigris is a rock monolith, all dark delight and sinister pleasure, that demands headbanging and fists raised to the sky.
A mainstay in the NYC hard rock scene, MIRROR QUEEN has shared the stage with heavyweight peers such as Earthless and The Shrine and toured Europe with legends such as Uli Jon Roth and UFO. The group's driving music accelerates at the distinct point where NWOBHM and heavy Prog Rock intersect; a direct and definite delineation of an era when urgent metallic sound was the order of the day.
Verdigris track list
1.) Poignard
2.) Flying Eyes
3.) Sorrow's End / Dark Kiss of the
4.) Starliner
5.) Verdigris
6.) Curse the Night
MIRROR QUEEN features Kenny Kreisor (guitar, vocals), Jeremy O'Brien (drums), Morgan McDaniel (guitar) and James Corallo (bass).
Verdigris is available to pre-order from Tee Pee Records:
https://teepeerecords.com/products/mirror-queen-verdigris-out-october-27th
More info:
https://www.facebook.com/mirrorqueennyc/
