Each musical period has its megastars, cult favorites and novelty bands that we affiliate with a sonic second in time. However when dig deep, we see a wealth of artistic voices that acquired misplaced within the shuffle or simply didn’t have the possibility to make themselves heard. FLO was fashioned within the late Nineteen Nineties in Orlando, Florida with a sound that was distinctly Seattle in character. The band recorded its debut album Lengthy Method Down however wasn’t capable of get it launched and the band wound up ending in 2004. It was a troublesome time to be a grunge band, the solar having lengthy since set on the sound within the mid-90s.

However good music is nice music, and so Decibel is proud to assist this album be heard. Horror Ache Gore Loss of life Productions will lastly give Lengthy Method Down a correct launch this Friday, and you’ll take heed to the entire thing right here. Instantly, the primary title that stands out is My Sister’s Machine, because the album reveals that band’s mixture of Mom Love Bone swing with Facelift-era Alice in Chains-grit. There’s a good quantity of Tad, Gruntruck and Willard within the combine as nicely. This isn’t the watered down post-grunge rubbish that took over rock radio after 1997. No, that is the actual cope with heavy riffs, scorching and catchy vocal strains, and infectious stomping rhythms. Take heed to “Numb” and also you’ll hear it immediately.

Oh by the way in which, the band featured Rick Rozz on guitar. Sure, that Rick Rozz from Loss of life and Bloodbath. Right here’s what he needed to say:

“FLO was fashioned in 1999 by Fortunate Erickson (Drums) Karen Fry (Bass) Harrison Davis (Vocals/Guitar) and myself, the songs have been written and recorded between 1999/2000, we performed many native gigs and gained a extremely good following together with the large assist of WJRR The Rock Station right here in Orlando.

We disbanded in 2004 as a result of not having the fitting connections to buy the band, however the cool factor is Mike Juliano at Horror Ache Gore Loss of life Productions is releasing it for us in any case these years, how F’in cool is that? We’re tremendous excited and we thank Mike very a lot for doing this, it was a good time in music for me. Get pleasure from. Cheers & Peace.”

Properly, I’m tremendous excited as nicely. In a sane world, there can be rock stations spinning this continuous and YouTube can be abuzz with black-and-white music movies of those guys decked out in flannel enjoying within the woods or one thing. Take heed to the album under and go right here for pre-order data.