{"id":1813,"date":"2013-06-22T11:00:00","date_gmt":"2013-06-22T11:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kjagradio.com\/theideamagazine\/?p=1813"},"modified":"2020-12-03T14:46:52","modified_gmt":"2020-12-03T20:46:52","slug":"weapons-of-anew-12-3-2020","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kjagradio.com\/themic\/weapons-of-anew-12-3-2020\/","title":{"rendered":"Weapons of anew 12\/3\/2020"},"content":{"rendered":"

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WEAPONS<\/span>\u00a0OF\u00a0ANEW<\/span>\u00a0ANNOUNCE\u00a0SINGLE\/VIDEO, \u201cSICK BOY\u201d\u00a0<\/strong><\/div>\n

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New Jersey-based hard rock quartet\u00a0WEAPONS<\/span>\u00a0OF\u00a0ANEW<\/span>\u00a0are excited to share the news of their sophomore album\u00a0scheduled for release in the spring of 2021.
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The band – which consists of seasoned musicians\u00a0guitarist\u00a0Freddy\u00a0Ordine\u00a0(ex-Axiom, ex-HavocHate) and vocalist\u00a0Ray West\u00a0(ex-Spread Eagle) along with bassist\u00a0Stefan \u201cReno\u201d\u00a0Cutrupi\u00a0and the newest addition, drummer\u00a0Chad Szeliga\u00a0(ex-Breaking Benjamin, ex-Black Label Society) – have revealed its debut single, a cover version of\u00a0The Chainsmokers\u2019\u00a0\u201cSick Boy.\u201d<\/div>\n
The\u00a0\u201cSick Boy\u201d\u00a0single has quickly garnered over 250,000 streams in just under a month.<\/div>\n
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The track received placement on multiple editorial playlists including Spotify\u2019s New Noise, Rock Hard, Best Of Rock, along with Apple\u2019s Breaking Hard Rock – and the track is inside the top 40 and climbing on active rock radio.\u00a0A\u00a0video has been recently released for\u00a0the track, which can be viewed here:\u00a0https:\/\/youtu.be\/K6Zdgdatpmo<\/a><\/div>\n
And \u201cSick Boy\u201d can be streamed here:\u00a0https:\/\/sym.ffm.to\/sickboy<\/a><\/div>\n
Ordine:\u00a0\u201cI’m blown away and beyond grateful that we are even mentioned in the same conversations as Billboard and the playlists that are currently happening.\u00a0I had been kicking around the idea of doing a cover for a\u00a0while.\u00a0But I wanted it to be something out of our normal genre. When I heard the song, the lyrics really connected with me, so I started working on an arrangement and brought the idea up to Ray. I felt we could really make a cool version of it. He loved it and here we are.\u201d<\/div>\n
\u201cSick Boy\u201d\u00a0was produced by longtime band collaborator Grammy Award-nominated\u00a0Mike Ferretti\u00a0(Sevendust, Warren Haynes, Saliva), mixed by multi-platinum\u00a0Grammy-winner David\u00a0Bendeth\u00a0(Papa Roach, Paramore, Bring Me The Horizon) and mastered by A-list mastering engineer\u00a0Ted Jensen\u00a0(Evanescence, Korn, Lamb Of God).<\/div>\n
\u201cThere is a line in the song where it says, \u2018How many likes is my life worth,’\u201d shares\u00a0Ordine. \u201cThe reality of that line hit home like few songs have in my life because of the pressure people have on them to be relevant at all costs. It was awesome and cathartic to be able to recreate such an awesome song and I hope it connects with people and makes them think, like it did with me.\u201d<\/div>\n
WEAPONS<\/span>\u00a0OF\u00a0ANEW<\/span>\u00a0first stormed the rock world in 2017 with their debut offering,\u00a0The Collison of Love and Hate, which collected numerous accolades on the strength of songs like \u201cKillshot\u201d and \u201cSundown.\u201d Through the power of their debut and explosive performances on national tours with the like of\u00a0Alter Bridge,\u00a0Scott Stapp, and even the heavy metal supergroup\u00a0Metal Allegiance,\u00a0WEAPONS<\/span>\u00a0OF\u00a0ANEW<\/span>\u00a0have earned a fiercely loyal fanbase around the globe.<\/div>\n
\u201cIt\u2019s definitely different but it\u2019s still\u00a0Weapons<\/span>,\u201d\u00a0Ordine\u00a0recently said, about a comparison between\u00a0The Collison of Love and Hate\u00a0and their forthcoming release\u00a0.\n<\/div>\n
\u201cWe grew a lot. When we did the first record, we had never done a show. We were in the middle of writing and recording the first record when we went on tour with Alter Bridge, so it was like we had already started to grow during that first record. With this new record, we had just come off tour with Scott Stapp and were leaning more towards the active rock scene. It\u2019s a pure version of us and also a more cohesive, mature version of us. It\u2019s still got the heavy stuff from the first record but there\u2019s definitely a lot more groove and melody which is what I was pushing for in the first record, but we just weren\u2019t there yet.\u201d<\/div>\n
As evidenced in\u00a0their new single and video,\u00a0WEAPONS<\/span>\u00a0OF\u00a0ANEW<\/span>\u00a0have\u00a0coalesced into a true metallic force.<\/div>\n
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WEAPONS\u00a0OF\u00a0ANEW\u00a0ANNOUNCE\u00a0SINGLE\/VIDEO, \u201cSICK BOY\u201d\u00a0 New Jersey-based hard rock quartet\u00a0WEAPONS\u00a0OF\u00a0ANEW\u00a0are excited to share the news of their sophomore album\u00a0scheduled for release in the spring of 2021. The band – which consists of seasoned musicians\u00a0guitarist\u00a0Freddy\u00a0Ordine\u00a0(ex-Axiom, ex-HavocHate) and vocalist\u00a0Ray West\u00a0(ex-Spread Eagle) along with bassist\u00a0Stefan \u201cReno\u201d\u00a0Cutrupi\u00a0and the newest addition, drummer\u00a0Chad Szeliga\u00a0(ex-Breaking Benjamin, ex-Black Label Society) – have revealed its debut […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":26631,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"video","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-1813","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-video","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-rock","8":"post_format-post-format-video"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kjagradio.com\/themic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1813","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kjagradio.com\/themic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kjagradio.com\/themic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kjagradio.com\/themic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kjagradio.com\/themic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1813"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/kjagradio.com\/themic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1813\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26633,"href":"https:\/\/kjagradio.com\/themic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1813\/revisions\/26633"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kjagradio.com\/themic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/26631"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kjagradio.com\/themic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1813"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kjagradio.com\/themic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1813"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kjagradio.com\/themic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1813"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}