Denver-based 70s Heavy Rock purveyors Lord Velvet present a raucous sonic battle cry with the second track taken from their sophomore album “Wiccan Moon,” to be issued on January 8th through Ripple Music.
Raise your fists up in the air with new single “Cold Steel“
On their second album for Ripple Music, Lord Velvet descend deeper into the sounds that have always beat at their core: 70s Hard Rock, early Heavy Metal, proto-Doom and Heavy Psychedelia. “Wiccan Moon” is a collection of occult tales — witches gathering beneath the moon, wolves answering something ancient in their blood, steel raised against tyrants — conjured through big riffs, cosmic textures, commanding vocals and Heavy grooves.
About the new single, the band says: “We wanted one of the songs on the album to have that galloping momentum of early 70s heavy metal, where the riff feels like it is constantly pulling you forward. It is fast, direct and built around a huge chorus that was meant to sound like something a room full of people could yell back at us. ‘Cold Steel’ is an uprising against tyranny, full of blades, vengeance, armies and storming the keep: someone has held power for too long, and eventually people decide they have had enough. This song introduces The Assassin, whose journey continues in future releases. The song is a battle cry and a celebration of overthrowing the unjust. That makes ‘Cold Steel’ one of the more immediate songs on ‘Wiccan Moon’ and a different side of the record’s heavier sound.“
Recorded live with Collin Ingram at The Band Cave in Denver, mixed and mastered to tape by Pete de Boer at World Famous Studio, and wrapped in hand-drawn artwork by Daria Hlazatova, “Wiccan Moon” is a Heavy, melody-driven record of fire, ritual, sacrifice and transformation. Don’t miss the previous single and title track “Wiccan Moon.”
New album “Wiccan Moon” — Out January 8th on Ripple Music (LP/CD/digital)
Formed in Denver in 2022, Lord Velvet make what they call Rocky Mountain Rock and Roll, a Heavy blend of Psychedelic Rock, proto-Doom and early Heavy Metal shaped by the darkness, scale and strange beauty of the mountains around them. Featuring Taylor Webb on vocals, Bobby Scott on guitar, Jason Kleim on bass and Mike Barnes on drums, Lord Velvet look backward without living in the past. Their music draws from the era when the boundaries between Hard Rock, Psychedelia and Heavy Metal were still being written. The ominous weight of Black Sabbath, the mysticism of Rainbow, the grandeur of Deep Purple and the strange, untamed spirit of the heavy seventies underground all help form the foundation.
The band emerged with “Astral Lady” in 2023 through Glory or Death Records, establishing a sound steeped in fuzz, melody and cosmic heaviness. With their second album “Wiccan Moon,” Lord Velvet enter the Ripple Music fold and turn deeper toward the Heavy Rock roots of seventies metal, reshaping those influences into a modern proto-Doom and Heavy Metal record of their own.