{"id":2922,"date":"2013-04-22T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2013-04-22T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/skylight.gr\/administrator_wordpress\/index.php\/2013\/04\/22\/michael-monroe-iconic-rock-n-roll-frontman-releases-new-studio-album-horns-and-halos-on-august-27th-2013-via-spinefarm-records\/"},"modified":"2013-04-22T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2013-04-22T00:00:00","slug":"michael-monroe-iconic-rock-n-roll-frontman-releases-new-studio-album-horns-and-halos-on-august-27th-2013-via-spinefarm-records","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/2013\/04\/22\/michael-monroe-iconic-rock-n-roll-frontman-releases-new-studio-album-horns-and-halos-on-august-27th-2013-via-spinefarm-records\/","title":{"rendered":"MICHAEL MONROE: Iconic Rock \u2018N\u2019 Roll Frontman Releases New Studio Album, \u2018Horns and Halos\u2019, on August 27th 2013 via Spinefarm Records"},"content":{"rendered":"


In 2010, vocalist, multi-instrumentalist, and uber-energetic front-man and all-round rock \u2018n\u2019 roll legend MICHAEL MONROE unveiled his new side project in grand style via an exclusive press conference. Flash forward six months to a full UK tour with Mot\u00f6rhead, and another few months to the release of Another Night in the Sun, a globally-anticipated live album that teased fans clamoring for a final, polished taste of the new project. Finally, roughly a year after MICHAEL MONROE\u2019s original public reveal, the band released their first critically-acclaimed full-length release, Sensory Overdrive, produced by Jack Douglas (Aerosmith, John Lennon). The album went on to win Classic Rock Magazine\u2019s \u2018Album Of The Year\u2019 award and landed at #1 on the charts in MM\u2019s Finnish homeland.<\/p>\n

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In 2012, after touring throughout the UK in support of Sensory Overdrive, Monroe announced that he would go back into seclusion to prepare for the band\u2019s next offering. Monroe\u2019s touring and recording outfit, comprised of bassist Sami Yaffa (ex-Hanoi Rocks\/New York Dolls), guitarist Steve Conte (ex-New York Dolls\/Company Of Wolves), guitarist Dregen (Backyard Babies, formerly of Hellacopters fame) and drummer Karl \u2018Rockfist\u2019 Rosqvist (ex-Chelsea Smiles\/Danzig), worked tirelessly in the studio, providing creative support for a frontman whose reputation is genuinely global and whose influence continues to be felt, with musicians of all ages (from Dave Grohl to the original Gun n\u2019 Roses members) citing Michael\u2019s ground-breaking career as a source of inspiration.<\/p>\n

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Now after several months, the wait is over.\u00a0 MICHAEL MONROE can finally reveal that the band\u2019s upcoming studio album, Horns and Halos, will hit stores everywhere on August 27, 2013 via Spinefarm Records. The band offers a taste of the new album in the form of a new single and video<\/a> for the track \u2018Ballad Of The Lower East Side\u2019, which can be watched now via YouTube<\/a> at this location.<\/p>\n

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The track includes a nod to Michael\u2019s early days in New York, a city he moved to for a decade following the mid-\u201980s break up of glam punk pioneers, Hanoi Rocks. The clip \u2013 directed by celebrated videographer\/photographer Ville Juurikkala, who has photographed Michael for the past 10 years as well as working with Linkin Park, Good Charlotte and HIM, amongst others \u2013 features archive footage and photos of Michael in prime Big Apple mode, interlaced with current live and backstage scenes.<\/p>\n

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\u201cThe song \u2018Ballad Of The Lower East Side\u2019 is about New York and especially The Lower East Side – what it was way back in the days when I lived\u00a0 there, how times have changed and how it is nowadays.,\u201d states MICHAEL MONROE. \u201cNew York has always been an important city to me since I lived there for 10 years. Two members of our band still live there.\u00a0 It’s the City of all Cities.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Sources:\u00a0 www.michaelmonroe.com<\/a> or www.facebook.com\/michaelmonroeofficial<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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