Year : 2019
Style : Melodic Hard Rock
Country : Sweden
Audio : 320 kbps + scans
Size : 139 mb
Bio:
Degreed is a Stockholm based Melodic Hardrock band formed in the beginning of 2005.Before degreed even released their first album they managed to tour Scandinavia and Germany, getting sponsored by legendary brands like Hagström and T-Rex, share stage with greats like Europe, Turbonegro, Millencolin among others and represent one of the largest musical instrument distributors in Europe – Musik Meyer on the largest public music fair in the world back in 2007.After many years of touring and gaining fans the band released their critically acclaimed debut album ”life,love,loss” in the fall of 2010 through Melodic Rock Records (Europe/USA), Spinning INC (Japan) and Rambo/Sony Music Entertainment (Sweden) which was followed by a tour in Sweden and a UK tour alongside VEGA.“..this first DEGREED album could well become THE album of the year!” – Gabor, MyGlobalMind.com (9/10 stars, Nov. 2010)Having recorded the first album with producer Erik Lidbom the band choose the easy way on the second studio album “We Don’t Belong”, having him to produce that one as well.Although on “We Don’t Belong” Erik also wrote/co-wrote a few songs for the album, amongst them two together with multiplatinum and Grammy Award winning singer/songwriter Bill Champlin (former singer of Chicago, songwriter for Earth, Wind and Fire etc.). Bill Champlin sang on the Chicago nr.1 hit “Look Away” as well as singles “You’re Not Alone” and “Hard Habit to Break“. On the second album by degreed Bill sings a verse in the song “In For The Ride”. Erik is also the best selling songwriter in Japan with over 16 million sold copies of the work he has done.“We Don’t Belong” was released on the 2nd of September 2013 and already that month it made “Album of the Month” in the 157:th issue of Brittish Powerplay Magazine. By the end of 2013 the album had received great reviews and also “Album of the Year” by Mårten Cederberg at Rocknytt.net.The single “What If” from the album has reached over 30 000 plays on Spotify and the video for the song as well as the video for the second single “Inside of Me” have reached over 15 000 views on YouTube.“We Don’t Belong is a near perfect slice of modern melodic rock which proves the future of the genre is very healthy. I was totally blown away by it and can’t stop playing it; I could get really fanatical about these guys.” – The Midlands Rock, Aug 10 – 2013 (10/10)In 2014 the band signed a management deal with Sun Hill Production and has since then been opening shows for Dan Reed Network on their shows in Sweden 2014, played Väsby Rock Festival and Special Guests at the Swedish Sid-Metal band Machinae Supremacy‘s European tour 2014 which took the band to countries like Poland, Czech Republic and Germany.The band just got back from a UK tour along with Australian White Widdow and Brittish Night by Night and have just finished the upcoming album “Dead But Not Forgotten” which will be released July 19:th through Sun Hill Production.
Album:
Degreed, the rock four-piece from Sweden, has released critically acclaimed music since the start of their career with the first album “Life, love, loss” in 2010 and have since gone from strength to strength with every album. They have toured and gained fans all over the world and they are not stopping now.Degreed’s second album “We Don’t Belong” was released on the 2nd of September 2013 and that same month became Album of the month in Powerplay magazine. They joined forces with multi-platinum and Grammy Award-winning Bill Champlin (Chicago, Earth Wind, and Fire, etc.) and wrote a song for the album.“Modern rock just doesn’t get any better than this” – Andrew Hawnt, Powerplay Magazine.The follow up “Dead But Not Forgotten” was released in 2015 and was also very well received by critics all over the world and the opening track and first video “The Scam” got featured in Classic Rock Magazine.In 2016 the band teamed up with Hagenburg Management and Gain/Sony Music to reach new heights in their career and they released their self-titled album ‘Degreed’ in August 2017. Following the release, they toured Europe and at the beginning of 2019 came the release of the bands brand new single “Ruins” which topped the iTunes charts. The touring continues and the singles will keep dropping until the release of the upcoming album “Lost Generation” which is set to be released November 15.
Line Up:
Robin Ericsson - Vocals/Bass
Mats Ericsson - Drums
Micke Jansson - Keyboard
Daniel Johansson - Guitar/Backing Vocals
Tracklist:
01. Intro
02. Lost Generation
03. You All Know My Name
04. Ruins
05. Interlude
06. Summer Of Love
07. Blue Virgin Isles
08. Sex
09. Body Of Work
10. Born Under A Bad Sign
11. Don't Let Go
12. Alive
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