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MP3 Sixty 8 - ROCK: Retro-Rock
5 MP3 Songs
ROCK: Retro-Rock, METAL/PUNK: Power Metal
Details:
Sixty 8 is an evocative blend of all Metal bands. The band calls its genre “Retro-Metal” with Nu Metal flavor. The members of the band span from 26 to 49 and so the influences of multiple decades can be found in each song. Tryg Bundgaard (Lead Vocals) is the youngest member of Sixty 8 and represents the Nu Metal and Grunge component of the band. Kurt Schwartz and James Lee (Lead Guitar) are primarily 80’s “Hair Band” Metal heads with distinct differences in playing styles. Brett Eurich (Drums) brings the Classic Hard Rock feel to the band, and Paul Asher York (Bass) has been playing since the late 70’s, starting with Progressive Rock bands in Los Angeles.
Sixty 8 is committed to the lead guitar breaks and vocals indicative of “80’s metal,” but in today’s context. “With a vocalist such as Tryg Bungaard, we are able to achieve an overall sound that is very reminiscent of bands such as Dokken, Whitesnake, Lynch Mob etc.” “Our guitarist Kurt Schwartz played in 80’s metal cover bands and has a natural inclination towards that style of metal. James Lee Humes is more of a basement monster, whereas he has spent years perfecting his technique in secrecy. James has a little more of a progressive jazz/rock influence but can still rip on the hard rock side of things.”
Brett Eurich has always loved the late 70’s and 80’s bands such as AC/DC, Slayer, Iron Maiden, Skid Row and drums accordingly. Paul Asher York is the elder statesmen of the band and started playing in Los Angeles in the late 70’s. Paul’s influences are everything between the Beatles and Kings X. Overall Sixty 8 is an amalgam of Hard Rock from the 70s through today.
Sixty 8 was born in Colorado Springs on January 15 2004 when Paul invited Brett over to his recording studio to burn a new track that Paul was working on. Paul and Brett decided to continue playing together and started recruiting additional musicians. Paul was at the gym working out and began a conversation with a potential lead singer, which Kurt overheard and jumped in stating that he was interested in playing guitar. Kurt mentioned that he worked with an excellent musician from work (James) and that he could fill in on the bass (Paul was currently on rhythm guitar.) Once James auditioned Paul immediately knew that he may very well be out of the band he started unless he picked up bass duties. The band started their first 5 song EP at Colorado Sound with J.P. Manza as engineer/co-producer in April 2004 without a lead singer. A co-worker of Brett and Paul mentioned that she (Lisa) knew of a singer that was “going to be famous.” Within an hour Paul made contact with Tryg and scheduled an audition. Tryg and the band worked well together and Tryg ended up at Colorado Sound to complete all the vocals on the EP within a month after the first initial contact.
One of the great things about Sixty 8 is that the line up has not changed since the beginning and the band members are very close, which makes rehearsals a pleasure (for the most part.)
Sixty 8 has been gaining attention over the last 1 ½ years and has signed licensing agreements with Rescue Records (Los Angeles) and The Vault – Motherwest (New York City.) Sixty 8 was recently played at the Midem Convention in Cannes, France and in over 6,000 movie theaters in North America prior to the showing of Spiderman 3.
Press:
“Fresh and Original.”
Keith Olsen (producer for Foreigner, White Snake, The Scorpions, Heart, Santana, Fleetwood Mac etc.)
“Lots of Potential.”
Iron Maiden
“Nicely Done!”
REO Speedwagon
“Liked the music very much!”
John Braheny Los Angeles Songwriters Showcase
"Appreciate the musicianship and the vocals, too...Love the guitar tones..." HM Magazine
Reviews:
“From Colorado Springs comes SIXTY 8. The band is Tryg Bundgaard on vocals Kurt Schwartz on guitar, Brett Eurich on drums, James Lee Humes on guitar and Paul York on bass. They have been playing for several years now and have released a super cool self-titled record that opens up with the guitar fuelled ''I Won''t Play’, which is reminiscent of Dokken thanks mainly to Tryg Bundgaard''s vocals. This is a catchy melodic tune with fiery guitars, good start. Next is the heard hitting and heavier ''Blood Red Sky''. Then comes one of my favourite songs ''Over'', a cool melodic ditty again in the Dokken style, very cool song with smouldering guitars, I can imagine this would be pretty cool live. Another favourite is ''Any Race Of Man'', this is a mellow balladic song with lovely vocal lines from Tryg.
''Alone'' again goes for the Dokken style but lack that little ''pow'' of the other songs. ''The Race Goes on'' is another favourite song; this chugs along at a cool pace and comes over again like Dokken jamming with Blue Murder and Skid Row, some fine drum patterns and guitars on this track. ''All She''s Ever Known'' is another mellower track built around acoustic guitars and is another good song. Last track ''Killing Time'' is a moody guitar edge rocker with a modern twist added in again oozes Dokken flavours.
Overall then Sixty 8 shows potential, the sound is nice and the band needs to get this sent over to the indy rock labels pronto, I''m sure someone like Z Records or Metal Mayhem would show interest.
Nicky Baldrian
Fireworks Magazine
Sixty 8 is all about creating retro metal songs that rock
“…Sixty 8 has the potential to please metal fans. If you like 80s metal, 90’s grunge rock and modern nu-metal, you may like Sixty 8’s album. The band draws on all these influences –blending them into songs that keep you guessing. Bundgaard swithches easily from deep, masculine vocals that recall nu-metal to the high-pitched effeminate squealing of an 80s hair band.
The instrumentation follows a similar crooked path—sometimes opting for the structured beats and riffs of modern metal and other times indulging in the more chaotic, climatic guitar playing of the past. That said, don’t expect anything too profound from this band. Sixty 8 drew most of its sound from 80s glam rockers, and Guns and Roses didn’t become popular by inspiring deep https://www.tradebit.come their predecessors, Sixty 8 seems to put the most energy into determining, “Do these songs rock?”
J. Adrian Stanley
The Gazette
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