We are stoked to bring you the first look at Boston MA group Cortez‘ music video for “Sell The Future”, the title track off of their upcoming Ripple Music full-length release. A compelling slab of old-school heavy metal, classic hard rock and doom. Dig it! 🔥
It’s another banger from a band on the Ripple Music roster, and Metal Assault is here to bring you its exclusive premiere. Boston MA quintet CORTEZ is releasing their third full-length album Sell The Future this October, and we are excited to bring you the first look at its title track’s music video.
Some songs are instant classics and others are growers. It can be safely said that “Sell The Future” is both. With a compelling combination of old-school heavy metal, classic hard rock and doom metal, this 7-minute tune makes a strong impact upon first impression, and only gets stronger with every repeat listen. Catchy riffs, superbly crafted guitar harmonies and solos, soaring clean vocals, and a quintessentially doom-laden groove altogether leave you no choice but to get instantly hooked. As for the music video itself, it’s simple yet effective, showcasing the band in their element and letting the music shine. Watch the video and crank up this track super loud, right here with us …
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Once again, it’s Bandcamp Friday, meaning that Bandcamp is waiving their fee. All of the money goes to the artist. If you’ve wanted to grab any Cortez music, this would be a good time to do so.
Tune in to Matt Bacon’s new episode of ‘A Stoner Home Companion’ on Gimme Radio to hear our new song ‘Look At You’ plus a quick commentary about said song from our own Matt Harrington, and tons of other killer tunes. 5PM EST.
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Tune in to this weeks Doomed & Stoned show with hosts Billy Goate and John Gist (Vegas Rock Revolution) to hear tons of cool new music. Including our song ‘Look At You’ from the upcoming album Sell The Future which is being released this October on Ripple Music (vinyl) and Salt Of The Earth Records (CD).
The cat is officially out of that damned bag. Our new album ‘Sell The Future’ drops this October. Check out our video for the song ‘Look At You’ directed by DWJ Creative.The album was recorded and mixed at Mad Oak Studios by the one and only Benny Grotto. Mastered at West West Side Music by Alan Douches. Album cover by Timur Khabirov.
Boston heavy rockers Cortez release their new album, Sell the Future, on Oct. 22 through Ripple Music. Preorders are up at the link below, and the long-player — their third — follows three years behind 2017’s The Depths Below (review here), which is the shortest stretch between offerings of the band’s 13-years-so-far career, and all the more so considering the 2018 split with Wasted Theory (review here) that marked their arrival on Ripple. Cortez have never been a full-time, in-the-van-for-weeks kind of band. Most of their shows have been regional to New England or the Eastern Seaboard, and though their first EP, 2007’s Thunder in a Forgotten Town, was put out by Belgium’s Buzzville Records, they are and have always primarily been a Boston band in terms of the traditions they follow in melody and drive and the underlying edge of aggression that has emerged in their material. Or as vocalist Matt Harrington puts it in the opening line of “Vanishing Point,” “Born into a place of cutthroats and of the insane.”
I had the pleasure some months ago of writing the bio for Sell the Future. Not the first I’ve done for Cortez, I think, and hopefully not the last. According to my email dates, I turned in the draft to guitarist Scott O’Dowd on March 15, 2020, at 6:44AM, which might explain the somewhat foreboding tone of the thing as the US was just in the beginning throes of its COVID-19 lockdown. One suspects Sell the Future would have been released sooner than the Fall had that lockdown not taken place, but then, well, blah blah blah. Ultimately what matters is the record itself, which brings together eight Mad Oak-recorded tracks that, beginning right from the outset with “No Escape,” careen along the line between heavy rock and heavy metal, Harrington‘s soulful vocals — he gives the best performance here I’ve ever heard from him — backed by bassist Jay Furlo (plus some gang shouts) as guitarists Scott O’Dowd and Alasdair Swan rip into leads and chunky riffs with a vitality that’s all the more punctuated with the let’s-just-get-this-cowbell-out-of-the-way-now drumming of Alexei Rodriguez. It quickly becomes apparent that Cortez are about to go on a tear, and the 42-minute offering does that and more, be it in speeders like “No Escape,” “Look at You,” Deceivers” and the penultimate “Vanishing Point,” or more mediated pieces like the title-track, “Faulty Authors,” or the seven-minute finale “Beyond.”
Here’s the full front cover for our next album ‘Sell The Future’. Artwork by the magnificent Timur Khabirov We’ll have some more info regarding the album VERY SOON. Stay tuned.
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