Watch The official Video to the hard rock track “Say It To My Face” from the Zig Zags’ 2025 album Deadbeat At Dawn

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Zig Zags have been an L.A. institution for over a decade, never veering from their hard-riffin punk/metal mission statement. They’ve gigged all over the globe with underground luminaries such Mike Watt, Neurosis, Pig Destroyer, Oh Sees and Feral Ohms and recorded collaborations with icons like Iggy Pop. Zig Zags’ founding member, guitarist/singer Jed Maheu explains of the band’s core inspiration, “Zig Zags is metal and punk music written for my 13-year old self. If I wanted us to sound like something else, I would just do a different band.” This unyielding dedication to pure, driving rock n’ roll goes back to 2010, when Maheu, who was reared on both hardcore and ‘80s thrash, started writing tracks inspired by his obsession with both genres. The band’s first slab of vinyl, the appropriately named “Monster Wizard” 45 came out soon after Tubesteak Tuesday Records. This was quickly followed by more singles on Mexican Summer and Light in the Attic, the latter teaming Zig Zags up with none other than lggy Pop to blow out a Betty Davis cover. Their first self-titled LP dropped in 2012 on In the Red Records, produced by Ty Segall, who coaxed out their lean, mean, and lo-fi metalloid attack. The Zig Zags’ second full platter, Running Out of Red was released on the Castle Face imprint in 2016, and since 2019 they’ve been with Riding Easy records, who unleashed They’ll Never Take Us Alive, featuring their anthem of a single, “Punk Fucking Metal.” By this time, Maheu had enlisted Sean Hoffman on bass and Jeff Murray, (formerly of The Shrine) on drums, to release a hard and heavy rework of 10 years worth of Zig Zag’s classics, entitled, Strange Masters Vol. 1, in 2024.

Now the power trio is set to release their fifth incendiary full-length LP, Deadbeat at Dawn, named in honor of the beloved B-movie, a no-budget action revenge flick set in the mean streets of suburban Ohio. Cult cinema is an enduring Zig Zags inspiration, with the band frequently calling out exploitation films in their lyrics, odes to teen-delinquent classics like “Over the Edge” and dystopian sci-fi such as, “Terminator” and “Total Recall”. The new album sticks to this obsession with the cultural underground, riffing on everything from demonic minions to apocalyptic visions and alien attacks. The opening track “‘Not of This World’ is described by Maheu as, “a fighting-back-against-the-aliens song”. The propulsive heavy jammer “At War With Hell” fights the devils on their own satanic turf. The thrash power anthem, “Take Me To Your Leader’, is – as Maheu explains,“about how we’re always talking about the environment and going to Mars, then some aliens show up here and say, ‘Yo, your planet is way better than where we came from, so we’re gonna fuck you up and take it!’” This new album is undeniably Zig Zags’ at their most epic and enormous in both the performance and the production. “We definitely wanted a bigger overall sound with heavier guitars,” Maheu explains of the new record, “still very 80’s, but clearer. Our influences were Metallica’s, Garage Days as Judas Priest…really heavy but not overly distorted.”

The result is the most focused, intense, and catchy Zig Zags album yet, with the timing perfect for their distinctly melodic and maniacal call to arms. Finalizing recording and mixing just as the catastrophic fires hit their hometown in L.A., Deadbeat at Dawn is the perfect soundtrack for a city rising up from the ashes of destruction. “I feel lucky that we got to put out this record when we did,” Maheu said, “It’s heavy and gnarly and kind of fucked up, but it’s also a lot of fun – which is how we feel about Los Angeles.”

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“Deadbeat At Dawn” Film Directed by Jim Van Bebber
“Deadbeat At Dawn” Song written by Jed Maheu, Sean Hoffman and Jeff Murray
Performed by Zig Zags
Produced and Engineered by Michael Parnin at Blacksound
Mastered by Nick Townsend

Zig Zags have been an L.A. institution for over a decade, never veering from their hard-riffin punk/metal mission statement. They’ve gigged all over the globe with underground luminaries such Mike Watt, Neurosis, Pig Destroyer, Oh Sees and Feral Ohms and recorded collaborations with icons like Iggy Pop. Zig Zags’ founding member, guitarist/singer Jed Maheu explains of the band’s core inspiration, “Zig Zags is metal and punk music written for my 13-year old self. If I wanted us to sound like something else, I would just do a different band.” This unyielding dedication to pure, driving rock n’ roll goes back to 2010, when Maheu, who was reared on both hardcore and ‘80s thrash, started writing tracks inspired by his obsession with both genres. The band’s first slab of vinyl, the appropriately named “Monster Wizard” 45 came out soon after Tubesteak Tuesday Records. This was quickly followed by more singles on Mexican Summer and Light in the Attic, the latter teaming Zig Zags up with none other than lggy Pop to blow out a Betty Davis cover. Their first self-titled LP dropped in 2012 on In the Red Records, produced by Ty Segall, who coaxed out their lean, mean, and lo-fi metalloid attack. The Zig Zags’ second full platter, Running Out of Red was released on the Castle Face imprint in 2016, and since 2019 they’ve been with Riding Easy records, who unleashed They’ll Never Take Us Alive, featuring their anthem of a single, “Punk Fucking Metal.” By this time, Maheu had enlisted Sean Hoffman on bass and Jeff Murray, (formerly of The Shrine) on drums, to release a hard and heavy rework of 10 years worth of Zig Zag’s classics, entitled, Strange Masters Vol. 1, in 2024.

Now the power trio is set to release their fifth incendiary full-length LP, Deadbeat at Dawn, named in honor of the beloved B-movie, a no-budget action revenge flick set in the mean streets of suburban Ohio. Cult cinema is an enduring Zig Zags inspiration, with the band frequently calling out exploitation films in their lyrics, odes to teen-delinquent classics like “Over the Edge” and dystopian sci-fi such as, “Terminator” and “Total Recall”. The new album sticks to this obsession with the cultural underground, riffing on everything from demonic minions to apocalyptic visions and alien attacks. The opening track “‘Not of This World’ is described by Maheu as, “a fighting-back-against-the-aliens song”. The propulsive heavy jammer “At War With Hell” fights the devils on their own satanic turf. The thrash power anthem, “Take Me To Your Leader’, is – as Maheu explains,“about how we’re always talking about the environment and going to Mars, then some aliens show up here and say, ‘Yo, your planet is way better than where we came from, so we’re gonna fuck you up and take it!’” This new album is undeniably Zig Zags’ at their most epic and enormous in both the performance and the production. “We definitely wanted a bigger overall sound with heavier guitars,” Maheu explains of the new record, “still very 80’s, but clearer. Our influences were Metallica’s, Garage Days as Judas Priest…really heavy but not overly distorted.”

The result is the most focused, intense, and catchy Zig Zags album yet, with the timing perfect for their distinctly melodic and maniacal call to arms. Finalizing recording and mixing just as the catastrophic fires hit their hometown in L.A., Deadbeat at Dawn is the perfect soundtrack for a city rising up from the ashes of destruction. “I feel lucky that we got to put out this record when we did,” Maheu said, “It’s heavy and gnarly and kind of fucked up, but it’s also a lot of fun – which is how we feel about Los Angeles.”

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Track List
1. Last Hour
2. Blood Offerings
3. A Sinner’s Past
4. Walperguise
5. Unhinged Spirit
6. The Apparition
7. Hell’s Odyssey
8. Soul Sorcery

Early Moods – A Sinner’s Past

Early Moods’ sophomore album A Sinner’s Past is the ultimate dosage of classic early 70s proto-metal, 90s grunge riffing and timeless songwriting delivered with an explosive youthful energy.

The Los Angeles area quartet burst onto the scene fully formed with a sound that somehow simultaneously merged gritty underground Street Doom with slick “big box” Heavy Metal melodies on their self-titled RidingEasy debut album in 2022. And it’s the band’s highly skilled musicianship paired with exquisite aesthetic taste — in addition to their killer live show — that has made them an immediate popular favorite.

A Sinner’s Past takes those elements several steps higher with a nod to Soundgarden’s huge sonic depth, the low-mid fuzz drenched tones of Sabotage and classic 70s melodies and structures of Ulli Roth-era Scorpions. The latter in particular inspiring the album’s intricate tonal shifts and shimmering twin leads.

“I’m very proud of these songs,” says guitarist Eddie Andrade. “We did a lot of different things, took a lot of chances and show a lot of growth, and I think people will pick up on it. I was trying to use more open chords, not the typical styles. We came off touring with Candlemass and Pentagram, sharing those shows with our heroes really pumped us up. We went into the studio just hungry to record.”

The album was recorded near the band’s home base in Pico Rivera, CA by Allen Falcon of Birdcage Studios, who also mixed their debut album. “He’s a good friend of the band and we wanted to be more comfortable, in a relaxed environment for this,” Andrade says. “He had a lot of input and his ideas made a lot of impact on this recording.” The band started recording in May 2023, then worked on the album on and off for 3 months between tours, which also lends to its very refined sound.

Early Moods was founded in 2015 by Andrade and vocalist/keyboardist Alberto Alcaraz after a few years of playing in thrash and death metal projects before the two realized that the classic doom that they’d grown up with was what they really wanted to explore. Going through a few lineup changes while delving deeper into the diverging influences that were calling, Early Moods arrived at the sound and lineup that grew their fanbase locally. The band released their debut EP Spellbound in 2020 on German label Dying Victim Productions, followed by their self-titled debut full length on RidingEasy Records in 2023. Early Moods is Oscar Hernandez on lead guitar, Chris Flores on drums, Elix Felciano on bass, Alcaraz on vocals/synth and Andrade on guitar.

Record out world wide March 8, 2024

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Early Moods
A Sinner’s Past

Early Moods’ sophomore album A Sinner’s Past is the ultimate dosage of classic early 70s proto-metal, 90s grunge riffing and timeless songwriting delivered with an explosive youthful energy.

The Los Angeles area quintet burst onto the scene fully formed with a sound that somehow simultaneously merged gritty underground Street Doom with slick “big box” Heavy Metal melodies on their self-titled RidingEasy debut album in 2022. And it’s the band’s highly skilled musicianship paired with exquisite aesthetic taste — in addition to their killer live show — that has made them an immediate popular favorite.

A Sinner’s Past takes those elements several steps higher with a nod to Soundgarden’s huge sonic depth, the low-mid fuzz drenched tones of Sabotage and classic 70s melodies and structures of Ulli Roth-era Scorpions. The latter in particular inspiring the album’s intricate tonal shifts and shimmering twin leads.

“I’m very proud of these songs,” says guitarist Eddie Andrade. “We did a lot of different things, took a lot of chances and show a lot of growth, and I think people will pick up on it. I was trying to use more open chords, not the typical styles. We came off touring with Candlemass and Pentagram, sharing those shows with our heroes really pumped us up. We went into the studio just hungry to record.”

The album was recorded near the band’s home base in Pico Rivera, CA by Allen Falcon of Birdcage Studios, who also mixed their debut album. “He’s a good friend of the band and we wanted to be more comfortable, in a relaxed environment for this,” Andrade says. “He had a lot of input and his ideas made a lot of impact on this recording.” The band started recording in May 2023, then worked on the album on and off for 3 months between tours, which also lends to its very refined sound.

Early Moods was founded in 2015 by Andrade and vocalist/keyboardist Alberto Alcaraz after a few years of playing in thrash and death metal projects before the two realized that the classic doom that they’d grown up with was what they really wanted to explore. Going through a few lineup changes while delving deeper into the diverging influences that were calling, Early Moods arrived at the sound and lineup that grew their fanbase locally. The band released their debut EP Spellbound in 2020 on German label Dying Victim Productions, followed by their self-titled debut full length on RidingEasy Records in 2023. Early Moods is Oscar Hernandez on lead guitar, Chris Flores on drums, Elix Felciano on bass, Alcaraz on vocals/synth and Andrade on guitar.

A Sinner’s Past will be available on LP, CD and download on March 8th, 2024 via RidingEasy Records.

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DEATHCHANT // THRONES

“This is definitely the most honest and mature record Deathchant has ever made.”

That’s Deathchant vocalist and guitarist T.J. Lemieux talking about the band’s third and latest album, Thrones. Think of it as not just the follow-up to 2021’s Waste, but the other side of the coin. “While Waste and our self-titled album touched on similar themes, they were sort of from a problem standpoint,” he explains. “Thrones is full of reflection, self-realization, and solutions for moving forward and conquering those problems.”

Which isn’t to say that Deathchant have gone soft. Far from it, dude. In fact, Thrones just might be their heaviest record thus far. The band’s seamless swirl of classic rock guitar harmonies, syrupy sludge, blues boogie and psych bombast has reached a thrilling new apex as Lemieux spins high-powered tales of reckoning from beyond the wall of sanity.

Thematically, Lemieux and his bandmates—bassist George Camacho, guitarist Doug Stuckey and drummer Joe Herzog—peel back the veneer of self-delusion to expose the fork in the road. “Thrones is meant to represent things that rule you, things you worship, things you rely on or think you need,” Lemieux says. “Sometimes those things make you feel in control, safe, on top of the world like you’re in power—which over time often proves untrue.”

Witness lead single “Mirror”: Kicking off with gleaming Lizzy-isms, the song rumbles into a thick groove overlaid with lysergic fireworks that conjure the shaggy European movers of decades past. “‘Mirror’ is the key to the whole Thrones theme,” Lemieux explains. “It’s about looking inward to realize what’s ruling you, what’s consuming you, and how delusional you’ve been about those things. Your sense of self is so damn important, and fully facing your truths is not an easy thing to do. It’s admitting that you’ve intentionally dulled and quieted your mind to distract, avoid and run from yourself, from memory, from loss and truth. At some point, you have to face that shit.”

The languid and dreamy “Mother Mary” is also crucial to Thrones’ trajectory. “If the album was a book, ‘Mirror’ would be the first chapter and ‘Mother Mary’ would be the last chapter, though they’re not the first and last track for sonic reasons,” Lemieux explains. “‘Mirror’ is saying, ‘I’m looking inward because some things need to change,’ while ‘Mother Mary’ is saying, ‘Okay, things are fucked and have gone way too far but now we have this understanding—and acknowledging things is key to overcoming.’”

Thrones was recorded live in a cabin in the remote mountain community of Frazier Park, CA, with trusty engineer Steve Schroeder (a.k.a. Schroeds). “We moved in for a week, rehearsed a bit and went for it,” Lemieux says. “Each tune got three or so takes, but we nailed ‘Mother Mary’ and ‘Canyon’ right away.” Overdubs were done at the cabin, Schroeder’s Studio 3, and Lemieux’s place. The album was produced by Lemieux and Schroeder.

“Overall, it’s a pretty dark record,” Lemieux says. “It’s serious and leans into heavy themes, sometimes using metaphor and imagery to soften those blows, but sometimes it hits direct. It’s positive, though—and cathartic. Forever riding on the line of total insanity and flirting with mental degradation. It’s our most realized and ambitious record to date.”

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This White Light are:
Jen Wood – Voice
Greg Anderson – Guitar
Bryan Herweg – Bass
Jade Devitt – Drums

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This White Light are:
Jen Wood – Voice
Greg Anderson – Guitar
Bryan Herweg – Bass
Jade Devitt – Drums

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