Bobaflex have released their highly anticipated sophomore album, Tales From Dirt Town.
You can check out the premiere of Bobaflex's music video for their new single "Home" and preview the new album Tales from Dirt Town in its entirety on Ultimate-Guitar.com.
"Home" video premiere is available on Ultimate-Guitar.Tv.
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Tales From Dirt Town album at the band's official
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Tales From Dirt Town is like a bittersweet love letter to working class culture and blue collar yet redneck upbringing, states press release. Filled with crunchy guitars that'll rattle your teeth loose from your gums and the triple vocal attack by Jerod Mankin, Marty and Shaun McCoy, Tales From Dirt Town will course blood and adrenaline through the veins of all who listen to it, especially the kids who hail from dirt towns.
"Any kid in a Podunk town that listens to rock music will enjoy this," says McCoy. "It's for all the small towns in America that are full of working class families that do not have much to do. People don't realize that small towns have same problems as cities, being populated by drugs and dirtbags. The strains that a city kids feels is now the same in small towns, and since it's so desolate, you can get drawn down wrong paths, and feel like your future is one of two choices: to work in a mill plant or to be a drug addict."
Bobaflex surely relates to the struggles in a two-fold way. As people from a desolate town and as a national touring act trying to navigate the rough, murky music business waters, Bobaflex and Tales From Dirt Town are like signposts for struggling and overcoming. Comparing both worlds, McCoy says, "The desperation of the band trying to make it is the same as someone who comes from our town. We knew we had to put in a serious effort to make this album and that is was truly the last shot. So we had to make it as real as possible: real feelings, no bullshit, no lying."
Musically, Bobaflex decided to take things back to their roots. "We're not a screamy band, and we're not all 'argh' all the time," McCoy says. "As we get older, me and my brother regress to what we liked in junior high" McCoy admits to listening to loads of WASP on his iPod when on the road, and that when writing Tales From Dirt Town, they wanted to keep their metal edge and imbue it with more harmonies, melody, and singing, along the lines of Guns N' Roses and Motley Crue.
The slow boiling "Home" is a key cut on Tales From Dirt Town, which is about the band's last headline tour. "Some nights were ok," recalls McCoy. "Some nights, we played in front of bands and staff. The tour beat us down, spiritually. And that was when we chose to take the red pill, go back to work, get on stage, and do it again." The song is a true testament and celebration of this band's unkillable resolve. "Satisfied" is another tune that'll take up real estate in your cranium with its layered vocals and unforgettable chorus. "Savior" features Bobaflex's definitive, quirky songwriting style, as well.
At the end of the day, Bobaflex cannot be killed, stopped, halted, or pushed down the ladder of success. They bite, fight, claw, and rip until there is no fight left in them, a fight which unquestionably comes from their upbringing.
Be sure to catch Bobaflex, currently on tour, with supporting artists Dope, The Autumn Offering, Crossbreed and Fear Nuthin Band.
10/30 Northside Firehouse β Lima, OH
10/31 Club Bijou β Toledo, OH *
11/01 Columbia Music Hall β Portsmouth, OH *
11/02 The Cellar β Struthers, OH
11/03 Harpos β Detroit, MI*
11/04 Peabodys β Cleveland, OH ***
11/05 Northern Lights β Clifton Park, NY *
11/06 Webster Theater β Hartford, CT *
11/07 Crocodile Rock β Allentown, PA *
11/08 Volume 11 β Raleigh, NC **
11/10 Jaxx β Springfield, VA *
11/13 Amos Southend β Charlotte, NC **
11/14 Ground Zero β Spartanburg, SC **
11/15 The Social β Orlando, FL ****
11/17 Revolution β Ft. Lauderdale, FL **
11/20 The Masquerade (dwnstrs) β Atlanta, GA **
11/21 Hooligans β Jacksonville, NC **
11/23 Aces β Johnstown, PA **
11/24 The Machine Shop β Flint, MI **
* W/ Dope
** W/ Dope and Autumn Offering
*** W/ Dope, Autumn Offering and Fear Nuthin Band
**** W/ Dope, Autumn Offering and Crossbreed
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