York-based heavy rock’n’roll quintet The Bastard Sons release their new EP ‘Roads‘ today via Kaiju Records, and the release has now been made available for streaming in its entirety via the band’s SoundCloud page.
The EP was recorded in summer 2013 at Edge Recording Studios, Cheshire, and mastered by Ray Staff at Air Studios who has previously worked on albums by the likes of Black Sabbath, Led Zeppelin, and Muse.
The Bastard Sons’ frontman JJ Jackson had the following to say about the new EP:
Roads is basically in two parts. The opener ‘O Brothel Where Art Thou?’ is really a stand alone track, and the rest of the EP flows more like a concept album with a story. ‘Raise The Horse’ sets the scene and we start on a boat (the horse) going to war.The world jumps in and out of different time scales taking us to ‘Sobre La Muerte’ which is basically The Horseman of The Apocalypse, Death, in the spotlight of a psychiatrist explaining how he doesn’t want to do it anymore. ‘Seasons End’ is the men on the boat preparing to go to battle and talking about friends lost and experiences of previous wars. We then cut to Death’s story again in ‘IV’ which is basically Death deciding he needs to be part of the horsemen to keep the balance and that’s what he was made to do. That then leads us on to ‘Winter’ which is the men from the boat going to war!
‘Roads‘ is now available to purchase from The Bastard Sons’ Bandcamp page, and you can listen to the EP in its entirety below:
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