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OF HEARTS AND SHADOWS Unleashes Debut Album, 'Touching Base With A Chainsaw'

April 24, 2007

Perhaps there is no other band on the planet that the word "screamo" fits best than for OF HEARTS AND SHADOWS. Hailing from San Diego, California, the group – which includes singer Bixby, guitarists Ricky Vazquez and Ian Archer, bassist Allan Levy, and drummer Matt Williams — recently released their first-ever full-length, "Touching Base with a Chainsaw", which is one of the first releases for the newly-launched Tyburn label.

The group was originally formed by Vazquez and Levy back in 2003, and subsequently went through quite a few different members, before finding the group's current line-up. While the group's sound contains obvious elements of metal, hardcore, and emo, Levy explains that the group quintet refuses to be aligned with a single style or approach. "Every guy in this band is into a lot of different types of music — music that you wouldn't think a band with such a hard sound would like."

Released on February 6, "Touching Base with a Chainsaw" contains countless hard-hitting highlights, including the prog metal-esque "Make Sure You Tell Your Friends", as well as "Pretty for Nostalgia", which shows that Bixby is one of the more intense screamers in all of hard rock today. "This band is about the future," explains Vazquez. "Five young guys who appreciate the music that came before, play the music of today, but are going to keep creating and stepping outside the box into the future. Music is the last free thing left to do. There are no limits, and that is going to allows us to grow with every album we put out."

For information, visit www.ofheartsandshadows.com.

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