Matt Andersen - The Hammer & The Rose - VINYL LP

Ritual Violence is both a product and expression of that never-die attitude. It's the album they wanted to make with the engineer (Kurt Ballou) and tag (Candlelight) they wanted to partner with. It's the band refined to it's purest form 0% frills, 100% heavy riffs. Armed for Apocalypse has never done it the easy way, but this latest record is a statement and a promise that they will do it their way.

Unbridled joy springs eternal from Halfway Home by Morning. Recorded live off the floor in Nashville, Tennessee, celebrated songwriter Matt Andersen's tenth album collects all the essential elements for a down-home ramble and shoots them through with enough electrifying energy to drive the rock 'n' roll faithful to simmer, shimmy, and shake. Over it's lucky 13 tracks, he explores every facet of his sound-sweat-soaked soul, incendiary rhythm and blues, heartbroken folk, and gritty Americana-and binds them together with palpable heart, as the band leaves everything they've got on the sweet old hardwood of the Southern Ground studio, in the same spot that legends like Neil Young, Emmylou Harris, and Jerry Lee Lewis turned up the volume 'til it couldn't go up anymore. Halfway Home by Morning is the sound of an artist doing what he was born to do.

Double vinyl LP pressing including . 2018 . After playing thousands of shows around the world, Matt Andersen has mastered the art of delivering captivating and commanding performances that audiences simply can't keep quiet about. Andersen's well-earned word-of-mouth reputation is backed up by two European Blues Awards, a Juno nomination for Roots & Traditional Album of the year, six Maple Blues Awards for Male Vocalist of the year and over 10 million views on YouTube. With Live At Olympic Hall, Andersen's thunderous, one-of-a-kind voice is joined by his superbly talented friends from the 10-piece band, The Mellotones. Featuring danceable blasts of brass, slinky slide guitar solos and whirling organs, this live recording captures the unmistakable magic of seeing a master at work.