Rocktron endorsers, RED, are using plenty of Rocktron in their setups. The HUSH Super C is easily visible in the stage guitar racks. Guitarist Anthony Armstrong has incorporated the PatchMate Loop 8 to his rig as well. Bass player Randy Armstrong has requested the Rocktron Austin Gold for his setup. You must see this band live!
Still riding the momentum of its huge-selling Grammy-nominated debut album End of Silence, Red returns with Innocence & Instinct, a provocative new album forged in a perfect storm of inspiration and catastrophe. From the literary spark of Dante's Inferno to the bloody aftermath of a 75-mph highway crash, Red absorbed a flood of ideas and emotions that empowered the band to create next generation rock songs. Finding the sonic sweet spot where epic and primal converge, Innocence & Instinct features animated dynamics that super-charge its innocence vs. instinct theme.
"Innocence & Instinct is about the duality of man," explains guitarist Jasen Rauch. "The album examines the fight between our childlike innocence and the instinctive side that makes us do things we shouldn’t."
The group’s debut, which sold over a quarter-million copies and earned several awards and nominations, focused heavily on personal struggles. Bringing back Silence producer Rob Graves and mixer Ben Grosse (Sevendust, Disturbed, Depeche Mode), Innocence & Instinct goes a giant step further by tackling the fight itself. It’s about the dueling impulses that wage war within our souls.
In writing the album, Red found Inferno to be an illuminating guide. The literary classic, which starts with Dante and Virgil standing before the Gates of Hell, illustrated ways in which the band might tackle deep issues in a more poetic way. And if Dante enhanced the storytelling, a highway crash in late ’07 accelerated the band’s emotional core. As the tour van smashed into a guardrail and violently slid sideways across the highway, the band experienced new heights of horror that they channeled into Innocence & Instinct.
"It brought an intensity and depth that we couldn’t reach without going through this experience," Rauch reflects. "In the months after the accident, it felt like everything was in overdrive."
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Innocence & Instinct (CD/DVD) [DELUXE EDITION] [EXTRA TRACKS] |
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End of Silence |
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