ZED Revisit their Riff Rock Origins with Reissue of Desperation Blues | Watch the new video for 'Skin + Bones' now!

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Desperation Blues will be officially re-released on 18th January 2019 through Ripple Music

Pre-order the album now at www.ripple-music.com
"ZED's form of 'heavy' goes beyond the riff, pulling at emotions and an energy that doesn't rely on volume or sonic intensity."
THE EXAMINER

"It's one thing for a band to say they're bringing the rock and roll, but it's quite another when that band succeeds in delivering, and that's just what ZED can do."
UPSTATE METAL

The Valley of the Riff is well inhabited and plentiful in its offerings, but the beauty of its vast sprawl is that there's room for many. Making their presence known however with footprints deeper than most are San Jose-based earth shakers, ZED.

Blasting out onto the San Francisco Bay Area rock scene in 2007, ZED quickly made a name for themselves with their crushing live shows and incessant grooves. Having played together in various projects since '98 (including releasing an album with the band Stitch for Prosthetic/Metal Blade Records), guitar player/vocalist Peter Sattari, drummer Rich Harris and bassist Mark Aceves joined up with guitar wizard Greg Lopes to create a sound that was uniquely their own. A sound with the sole purpose to rock with no concerns for genre classifications and idle labelling.

Delivering a barrage of head bobbing and body-shaking blues-driven rock, you'll find no bell-bottoms, wizard sleeves or hip huggers here. Showcasing equal appeal to fuzz-box mercenaries, '74 Chevy van-driving stoners and horns-thrusting metalheads, ZED truly made their mark in May 2013 with the self-release of Desperation Blues, an album which, with the help of the Californian label Ripple Music gets an official worldwide reissue on CD/LP this January.

Replete with new album artwork and bonus material (previously unheard first time around) Desperation Blues is an honest collection of blood, sweat, and tears crafted into raw, personal tales that touch on religious tragedy, societal reflection, struggles with mental anguish, loss and perseverance. It's an album every fan of rock and roll should instantly relate to. A record on which you should drop the needle, press play, crank the volume and prepare to be intoxicated by the potion ZED are offering.

Desperation Blues will be officially re-released on 18th January 2019 through Ripple Music. Pre-order the album now at www.ripple-music.com

Stream and share the brand new vide for 'Skin + Bones' by ZED below:

TRACK LISTING:

1. Please
2. Skin + Bones
3. Killing Machine
4. Desperation Blues
5. Crawl Back To You
6. More
7. Rain
8. The Empty Quarter - Settle The Score
9. The River

Artist: ZED
Album: Desperation Blues
Label: Ripple Music
Release Date: 18/01/2019
Format: CD/LP
SOCIALS:

Web ' www.zedisded.com
Bandcamp ' www.zedisded.bandcamp.com
Facebook ' www.facebook.com/zedrocknow/
Twitter ' www.twitter.com/zedisded

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Kyle Scott
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