Formed by members of Never Ending Game, Simulakra, and Scarab during the pandemic, Gridiron have signed with the record label, Blue Grape Music. They have also shared their track, “Talk Real,” with a music video, directed by Dan Centrone, Check it out and find out more below.
Stream “Talk Real” here: https://gridiron.lnk.to/talkreal
“For me, this song is about being ready when your number is called,” says vocalist Mathew Karll. “Standing by your brothers and having a ‘we, not me’ mentality. Lyrically, it’s about rising to the occasion and playing for the name on the front of the jersey not the name on the back.”
The video finds the band knuckling down on its instruments, spliced with story footage while preparing for the big game. Who wins? Who loses? Does it even matter? No, it doesn’t. Because the music slays. Gridiron are expected to follow up their buzzy 2022 effort, No Good At Goodbyes, in spring of next year, with major touring to surround it, including the recently announced stop at Sonic Temple and handful of December shows.
Gridiron live:
12/6 — Tune Low Die Slow at Empire — Albany, NY
12/7 — Keystone Holiday Jam & Tattoo Convention at Club Reverb — Reading, PA
12/28 — Ottobar —Baltimore, MD*
12/29 — The Blackbox at the Williams Center — Rutherford, NJ*
5/11 — Sonic Temple at Historic Crew Stadium — Columbus, OH
*Supporting Trapped Under Ice
More from Blue Grape Music:
In 2022, industry veterans David Rath and Cees Wessels formed Blue Grape Music. The name will be familiar to rock music fans, as it was the merchandise company also launched by Wessels, who founded the venerable and esteemed record label Roadrunner Records in the ’80s. Roadrunner earned a reputation as an iconic label that turned hard rock and metal acts into household names for several decades under Wessels’ tutelage.
Rath spent 21 years in the A&R department at Roadrunner, working on albums by a variety of RIAA-certified and culturally important acts, including but not limited to Slipknot, Korn, Turnstile, Gojira, Coheed and Cambria, White Reaper, Slash, Trivium, Dream Theater, and more. When the label changed management and ownership, Rath guided the company and oversaw the signings of bands like Young the Giant and Vance Joy.
Ultimately, the Blue Grape executive team is powered by experience and a roll-up-your-sleeves-and-get-your-hands-dirty, by-any-means-necessary work ethic. Blue Grape’s inaugural signing was the two-time Grammy nominee Code Orange and since then, the label has gone on to sign San Francisco punks Spiritual Cramp, hardcore heavyweights Gel, and Baltimore sludge slingers Gasket, with several new signing announcements expected to be announced this year. Blue Grape is distributed globally by The Orchard.
Lineup:
Mathew Karll – Vocals
Will Kaelin – Guitar and vocals
Xavier Wilson – Guitar
William Livesay – Bass
Tyler Mullen – Drums
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