{"id":19337,"date":"2023-04-03T17:43:10","date_gmt":"2023-04-03T17:43:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/skylight.gr\/?p=19337"},"modified":"2023-04-03T17:43:11","modified_gmt":"2023-04-03T17:43:11","slug":"hard-rockers-trading-aces-release-rock-n-roll-homicide","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/2023\/04\/03\/hard-rockers-trading-aces-release-rock-n-roll-homicide\/","title":{"rendered":"Hard Rockers TRADING ACES Release “Rock ‘n’ Roll Homicide”"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Obsessed with fast cars, hard drinkin\u2019, breakin\u2019 laws and breakin\u2019 hearts, TRADING ACES<\/strong> is a 4-piece band of rock \u2018n\u2019 roll outlaws with a blood-and-beer-soaked debut album that, quite simply, rules. Featuring members of Warrior Soul<\/strong>, Streetwalkin\u2019 Cheetahs<\/strong>, and The City Kids<\/strong>, the foursome’s sound is a mix of hard rock, punk, and old school heavy metal, laced with plenty of catchy pop hooks. Think Wildhearts meets Social Distortion. Think Cheap Trick meets Judas Priest. Think AC\/DC meets Hanoi Rocks. These sounds are spilling over with volume, attitude, and thrills on their debut album “Rock \u2018n\u2019 Roll Homicide”, which you download in full below! <\/p>\n\n\n\n

“Rock \u2018n\u2019 Roll Homicide” will be issued on April 21st through Ripple Music. Happy to arrange interviews in the coming weeks, and of course, receive your reviews upon publication. Rock on!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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TRADING ACES “Rock ‘n’ Roll Homicide”
Out April 21st on Ripple Music<\/strong>
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About the album:<\/strong> \u201cWhen the pandemic hit, I got laid off from work and the Streetwalkin\u2019 Cheetahs went on hiatus, so reached out to Kory Clarke from Warrior Soul about writing some songs,\u201d recalls singer\/guitarist Frank Meyer. \u201cTurns out, they were about to start recording the all-covers album Cocaine and Other Good Stuff<\/em>, so I ended up signing backing vocals and playing keyboards on that. Dennis Post plays guitar in Warrior Soul, so we met there, and soon I was doing session work with his Leeds-based band The City Kids. Since then, we have made tons of music together and have been really prolific.\u201d
 
But it was the sudden death of a rock icon that inspired the two shredders to really dig into their collaborative spirit. \u201cIn October of 2020, Frank reached out to me after Eddie Van Halen passed away. We were all devastated,\u201d says Post. \u201cHe suggested we gather up some mates and record a Van Halen cover song in tribute to raise money for his favorite charity Mr. Holland’s Opus Foundation, so I called up Ivan Tambac from Warrior Soul and my longtime collaborator Bjarne Paamand Olsen and we all recorded a rippin\u2019 version of \u2018In A Simple Rhyme\u2019 remotely. That was the birth of the Trading Aces, really.\u201d
 
Soon Post and Meyer started hammering out song ideas and recording demos, and Trading Aces 12-song Rock \u2018n\u2019 Roll Homicide<\/em> was on its way, with the band self-producing their tracks remotely. Soon, together — yet thousands of miles apart — the Trading Aces made its cocksure debut album. With anthemic punky fist-pumpers like \u201cHello Hangover\u201d and \u201cCalifornia Scheming\u201d alongside Stones-meets-KISS boogie numbers \u201cAin\u2019t It A Bitch\u201d and \u201cSocial Disease,\u201d plus headbangers like \u201cNapalm Bombs\u201d and the title track, Rock \u2018n\u2019 Roll Homicide<\/em> is a earworm tour de force of riffs, hooks and strut. \u201cBeautiful Sunday\u201d is chock full of pop hooks that would make the Fab Four proud, yet lyrics about pizza and B-movies to keep the stoners a-tokin\u2019. \u201cDestination Insane\u201d and \u201cF.A.B.\u201d could be leftovers from Guns \u2018n\u2019 Roses Appetite For Destruction<\/em>, and the band\u2019s cover of Frank Zappa\u2019s \u201cDirty Love\u201d sounds like Fu Manchu and Funkadelic met in a barfight, but took mushrooms instead!
 
\u201cDennis came in with these straight-ahead riffs, and then Frank would add of these wild lyrics and cool harmonies, and before long we had some really strong material worked up,\u201d Tambac enthuses. \u201cMy job was to glue it all together, to keep a solid beat that pushes it along, yet add character and details.\u201d
 
\u201cThat\u2019s when it started to get really off the wall,\u201d laughs Olsen, \u201cSuddenly we were doing a Zappa cover, we brought in Paul Roessler (The Screamers, 45 Grave, Nina Hagen) on piano, a backing singer popped in the mix, a horn section got added to a few tunes, and the thing really came to life. This went from a few demos getting passed around to an absolute monster of an album quickly!\u201d Rock \u2018n\u2019 Roll Homicide<\/em> is set for worldwide release on April 21 via Ripple Music, so make sure to bet on Trading Aces!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

TRADING ACES is<\/strong>
Frank Meyer (Los Angeles, United States)- Lead Vocals, Guitar
Dennis Post (Copenhagen, Denmark) \u2013 Guitars, Vocals
Bjarne Paamand Olsen (Copenhagen, Denmark) \u2013 Bass
Iv\u00e1n Tambac (Torrevieja, Spain) – Drums<\/p>\n\n\n\n

TRADING ACES links<\/strong>
Facebook<\/a>\u23aaInstagram<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

RIPPLE MUSIC <\/strong>links<\/strong>
Website<\/a><\/strong>\u23aaFacebook<\/a><\/strong>\u23aaBandcamp<\/a><\/strong>\u23aaInstagram<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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