Tax the heat
| Tax the heat | |
|---|---|
| General information | |
| origin | Bristol , England |
| Genre (s) | Classic rock , blues rock |
| founding | 2013 |
| Website | taxtheheat.com |
| Current occupation | |
| Alex Veale | |
Guitar, vocals |
JP Jacyshyn |
Bass , vocals |
Antonio Angotti |
Drums , vocals |
Jack Taylor |
Tax the Heat is an English classic rock / blues rock band from Bristol . The band is signed to Nuclear Blast and has released two studio albums so far.
history
The band was formed in 2013 by singer and guitarist Alex Veale and drummer Jack Taylor. Veale and Taylor were school friends, temporarily lost sight of each other after leaving school. Veale was then a member of the band The Operation and played the theme song for the sitcom Episodes . Later they met again in a record store and decided to start a band. Together with guitarists JP Jacyshyn and bassist Antonio Angotti, Veale and Taylor completed several jam sessions before the band was formed. The musicians recorded several demos before the band released a self-titled EP in November 2013 . Was produced Tax the Heat by Chris Goss , the singer of the band Masters of Reality .
Following the publication Tax the Heat toured as opening act for The Union by the United Kingdom . It became a trademark of Tax the Heat that the musicians stand on stage in suits . Tax the Heat want to stand out from the groups that play live in jeans and t-shirts . A year later, numerous tours followed, including supporting acts for Black Star Riders , Kansas , Thunder and Reef , as well as appearances at the Download Festival . In 2015 the band played numerous concerts and opened for bands like the Masters of Reality and Europe . From September to December 2015, Tax the Heat recorded their debut album together with the music producer Evansson, who previously worked with Robert Plant and Goldfrapp , among others .
In the meantime the band has been signed by the German label Nuclear Blast. and played her first own headlining tour in the UK. Fed to the Lions was released on April 8, 2016 and rose to number 100 on the UK album charts . Two tours followed in November 2016, initially in support of Europe on their tour for the 30th anniversary of their album The Final Countdown . Tax the Heart then went on their own headlining tour with the support act Terrorvision . In the spring of 2017, Tax the Heat played a few concerts in England as the opening act for Royal Republic , before another headlining tour and festival appearances followed, including at the Download Festival.
After that, the band recorded their second studio album. In November 2017, Tax the Heat toured the UK with Blues Pills supporting the Black Star Riders. The second studio album Change Your Position was released on March 9, 2018, but missed the British album charts. In spring 2018 the band toured the UK with support act Naked Six and played at the Beautiful Days Festival that summer .
style
Tax the Heat was founded because of the musicians' common love for rhythm and blues and rock music of the 1960s. Described by her own record label as a "mixture of classic, blues-soaked rock with a dash of modern alternative ". Tobias Dahs from the online magazine Powermetal.de compared Tax the Heat with classic rock bands like The Who , The Yardbirds , the Rolling Stones or Queens of the Stone Age . For James Christopher Monger from the online magazine Allmusic it was an intoxicating mixture of stadium-ready, modern rock with rhythm and blues and compared the band with Cream , Thin Lizzy , The Black Keys and Masters of Reality. Philipp Gravenhorst from the online magazine Metal.de described Tax the Heat as a hybrid of sixties garage rock and nineties rock. For Holger Stratmann from the German magazine Rock Hard , Tax the Heat made the “courageous attempt to give the indie rock genre a little musical violence, although nobody would actually wait for a hard version by Franz Ferdinand ”.
Discography
Albums
| year | Title music label |
Top ranking, total weeks, awardChartsChart placements (Year, title, music label , placements, weeks, awards, notes) |
Remarks |
|---|---|---|---|
 UK
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| 2016 |
Fed to the Lions Nuclear Blast |
UK100 (1 week) UK |
First published: April 8, 2016
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| 2018 |
Change Your Position Nuclear Blast |
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First published: March 9, 2018
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EPs
- 2013: Tax the Heat
Music videos
- 2014: Fed to the Lions
- 2014: Highway Home
- 2016: Animals
- 2016: Learn to Drown (You're Wrong)
- 2017: Money in the Bank
- 2018: Change Your Position
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b Alexandra Michels: Hot and sweaty . In: Rock Hard , May 2016, page 71
- ↑ a b TAX THE HEAT - sign with Nuclear Blast. Nuclear Blast , accessed April 24, 2016 .
- ↑ Tobias Dahs: TAX THE HEAT - Fed To The Lions. Powermetal.de , accessed on April 25, 2016 .
- ^ Philipp Gravenhorst: Tax the Heat - Change Your Position. Metal.de, accessed on March 3, 2018 .
- ^ Holger Stratmann: Tax the Heat - Change Your Position . In: Rock Hard, March 2018, page 100
Web links
- Official website of the band
- Tax the Heat at Allmusic (English)
- Tax the Heat at Discogs (English)
- Chart source: UK