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Aug. 10, 2020

Interview with Blackout Balter

​​We had the pleasure of interviewing Philip Cohen of Blackout Balter over Zoom video!

​​Please share while we are #togetherathome ​🏠​

​​​​Forthcoming debut full-length album. Last EP done with The Killers’ Dave Keuning; this one done with...

​​We had the pleasure of interviewing Philip Cohen of Blackout Balter over Zoom video!

​​Please share while we are #togetherathome ​🏠​

​​​​Forthcoming debut full-length album. Last EP done with The Killers’ Dave Keuning; this one done with Grammy-winner Jeremy Ferguson of Cage The Elephant fame.

​​Phil Cohen (the frontman) is an interesting guy: military veteran (multiple deployments), MIT grad, and entrepreneur.

​​“Red Letter” is an aggressive collision of sounds. It rattles you with an opening riff that wastes no time getting to the point." – American Songwriter

​​Nashville’s alternative rock band, Blackout Balter released their new album Animal on July 24th.

​​Blackout Balter says, “I wanted ‘Red Letter’ to punch the listener in the face—to push the idea that rock music is both attitude and melody; passion and nuance.” “The album ‘Animal’ plays with the notion that we’re all just animals at our core; and, when we’re backed into a corner, sometimes our claws come out and our true core is exposed. In a way, all of these songs are a call to break down doors, to be yourself, and to stop at nothing to do what you want to do.”

​​Blackout Balter’s feverish attitude is evident right out of the gate with Animal fiery opening track and lead single, “Red Letter.” Beginning with a rush of guitar feedback that spills into an onslaught of raw urgency, Cohen and co. paint a portrait of a parallel universe where fame becomes their failing.

​​​​Animal is a rush of punk and alternative rock energies, ready to seize the moment and arrest the senses. An unapologetic assertion of love, struggle, and leaving, the band’s aptly-titled Animal speaks to human nature at its most visceral core: When gut instinct supersedes logic, and our inner animal roars. Fourteen tracks of pure adrenaline offer a stinging introduction that inspires, excites, and pushes us to attack our dreams.

​​​​Blackout Balter’s first full-length album, produced by Grammy-winner Jeremy Ferguson (Cage the Elephant engineer and producer), and assisted by Grammy-winner Emily Lazar (David Bowie, Cold Play), provides 14 tracks of pure adrenaline that inspires.​​

​​Their first EP, Twist And Bend, featured Dave Keuning (The Killers), and received critical acclaim

​​by the famed Consequence of Sound and Paste Magazine media outlets—two of America’s most important music magazines; and the album charted on CMJ’s “Top 200” and was named an FMQB “Top 25 Album” while being spun on some of America’s most important radio stations, to include KROQ.

​​“Red Letter” is out now everywhere at https://fanlink.to/cXxJ​​

​​LINKS:

​​http://blackoutbalter.com/
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​​https://www.instagram.com/blackoutbalter

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