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EPK – Signs of Chaos – Blindsided (2023)

  • April 7, 2023
  • by Asher
  • · EPKs · Signs of Chaos

EPK – Signs of Chaos – Blindsided (2023)

Publicist – Jon Asher – jon[@]ashermediarelations[.]com

For fans of Machine Head, The Haunted, Pantera, Gojira, Nevermore

Album Title: Blindsided
Release Date: April 21, 2023
Label: Self-Release

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“Signs of Chaos are an amazingly talented and hard working band that have been staples in Ottawa’s metal scene for many years. This album is an excellent demonstration of what this band does best: KICK FUCKING ASS !” – The Ottawa Epitaph – Album Reviews

“I often wonder just how it is that a band that is this good remains unsigned? … ‘Rise’ is like getting a blast of fire as you go about sticking your head into a furnace! … like ‘Holy cat in the hat Batman!’ if this metal doesn’t come off as the the very definition of the word ‘heavy’ then I don’t know what would!” – Heavy Metal Time Machine: Signs of Chaos

“They’re one of those unique bands that you could show your kvlt friend, and girlfriend to all at the same time without the fear of either being cast out as a poser, or not getting laid.” – Shy Guy Assassin – Guest Column: Three Bands You May Not Know But Should

Album Title: Blindsided
Release Date: April 21, 2023
Label: Self-Release

Track Listing:
1. Faceless – 4:20
2. Bastard Son – 4:09
3. Through Your Eyes – 5:53
4. Blindsided – 4:16
5. Anonymous – 5:02
6. Dead to You – 3:54
7. No One Gets Out Alive – 5:06
8. Curveball – 4:52
Total runtime: 37:32

Album Credits:
All songs performed by Signs of Chaos
All songs written by Signs of Chaos
Produced, Mixed and Mastered by Stephane Desilets
Album Artwork by: Jeremy Dumouchel
Album Band Lineup:
Nick Bedard – Vocals
Matt MacIvor – Guitar
Dave McCann – Guitar
“Handsome” Tom Hansen – Bass
Stephane Desilets – Drums

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Track by Track:

Lyrically:

Faceless
Being in a toxic relationship where you can’t get out, having zero emotions to the point you become faceless

Bastard son
Growing up alone, struggling with drugs to cope with not having a father, and trying your best not to become him

The world through your eyes
No one seems to have an original opinion,  everything is recycled from the last person and made to sound like their own

Blindsided
Being rejected and shunned because the people you once cared about no longer share the views they once did

Anonymous
Inspired by silence of the lambs buffalo bill

Dead to you
One day people just stopped talking to me and I felt dead to them. We were very close and they knew I struggled with substance abuse and they also did, or supplied it. They turned their back on me and for a few years it was like I didn’t exist

No one gets out alive
Where someone is bullied to the point where he takes the lives of others and people only care or pay attention after the fact. How quickly it’s forgotten until it repeats again

Curveball
Instrumental

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Album Fun Fact:
Every time our bassist Tom’s name is mentioned on the liner notes for an album he has a different nickname. On Blindsided he has three credits, so three different nicknames. When we run out of nicknames for Tom then we’ll have to disband. We’ve still got enough in the backlog for a couple more albums though.

L-R Dave McCann – Guitar, “Handsome” Tom Hansen – Bass, Nick Bedard – Vocals, Matt MacIvor – Guitar, Stephane Desilets – Drums
Photo Credit: GNGP Photography

Formed in 2008, Ottawa, ON based SIGNS OF CHAOS’ assaulting and aggressive sound has made ripples on their local scene having opened for such bands as Alestorm, Eluveitie, Insomnium, Firewind, Dark Tranquility, Beyond Creation, Exciter, Death Angel to name a few. The band features the insane riffage of Matt MacIvor and Dave McCann along with the ear-stabbing vocals of Nick Bedard followed by the blasting drums of Stephane Desilets and the trademark tombstone slab of bass playing by Tom Hansen. The band’s ready to unleash their second full-length “Blindsided” this coming April 2023 to follow their 2016 EP ‘Watch It Burn’ and 2012’s debut album ‘Rise’. 

Discography:
2023 – Blindsided – LP
2016 – Watch It Burn – EP
2012 – Rise – Album
2009 – Untitled Promo CD – Demo

Shared stage with: Hatebreed, Act of Defiance, Alestorm, Eluveitie, Insomnium, Firewind, Arsis, Nightrage, Dark Tranquility, Malignant Tumour, Beyond Creation, Exciter, Death Angel, Jungle Rot, Reanimator, Dissentient

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