ERIC BASS kündigt Debütalbum Eric Bass Presents: I Had A Name für 28. Februar 2025 an

Songwriter, Multiinstrumentalist und Produzent Eric Bass (Shinedown) freut sich, sein Solodebüt Eric Bass Presents: I Had A Name anzukündigen. I Had A Name wurde vollständig von Bass geschrieben, aufgenommen und produziert. Das in einer weitläufigen neuen Welt spielende Konzeptalbum erscheint am 28. Februar 2025 und kann ab sofort unter https://onerpm.link/IHadAName vorbestellt werden. Fans können sich das Musikvideo zur ersten Single „Mind Control“ HIER ansehen.

“We live in a world right now where music gets homogenized and maybe everything sounds and feels the same. I wanted to create something different and I hope listeners hear that”, kommentiert Bass. “Lyrically and emotionally I hope it empowers them and they can see themselves in the characters and stories I sing about.”

Er fügt hinzu: “We all go through dark times and hardships, but there’s always a way out. I think that’s what being a human being is about. I feel like Earth is a test and we’re here to prove ourselves, go through things and come out better on the other side.”

Zur neuen Single sagt Bass: “’Mind Control’ is part of a larger story than I’m telling on this record and in the graphic novel that goes along with it. We’re following this character Devaren as he’s talking about his disdain for the population and how he can’t stand them, but at the end of the song he has this reflective moment where he actually regrets everything he’s been doing. The interesting thing about the characters in this story is that they represent a different part of my neurodivergence and mental health journey. In ‘Mind Control’ Devaren represents the depression that has crept into my life over the years that I didn’t see coming. I just had to personify that in a character so in ‘Mind Control’ it has taken over, but ultimately in our story it will be defeated.”

Fans können sich in den kommenden Monaten auf weitere neue Musik freuen. Haltet Augen und Ohren offen: https://www.ericbasspresents.com.

Über Eric Bass:
Eric Bass ist vor allem als Co-Songwriter, Produzent und Bassist der Multi-Platin-prämierten Rockband Shinedown bekannt, die den Rekord für die meisten Nummer-1-Singles in den Billboard Mainstream Rock Charts innehält. Im November 2024 enthüllte er mit “Mind Control” die erste Single seines Solodebüts, das am 28. Februar 2025 erscheinen wird: Das immersive, weitläufige, thematisch reichhaltige Werk Eric Bass Presents: I Had a Name. Ebenso vertraut mit KISS und Van Halen wie mit Pearl Jam und Soundgarden steckte Bass seine ganze Leidenschaft und Kreativität in I Had A Name.

Seinen Ursprung nahm die Storytelling-Idee hinter I Had A Name in einem Hotelzimmer in Mailand, Italien, während Shinedowns Tour zum 2018 erschienenen Album Attention Attention. “I sat on the bed with a pen and paper and wrote for two hours. It turned into a synopsis for a prequel to the story I’m telling on the album. When I started writing music, I thought about these characters. The album doesn’t chronologically tell the story, but it depicts various scenes from it – bits and pieces that happen throughout it.” 

Wie schon Attention Attention und Planet Zero (Shinedowns erster Nummer 1 in den Billboard Album Sales Charts) zeichnet I Had A Name ein Blick auf die Gesellschaft von Außen als auch nach Innen aus. Durch die bedeutsamen Metaphern und Storylines der Oberfläche dringen dunklere Emotionen.

“I’ve spoken about my struggles with depression and neurodivergent issues before”, erklärt Bass. “When I finished writing this record, I looked back at these characters I’ve created and realized I’d written the most autobiographical record of my life, which wasn’t conscious as I was writing it.
The album is an epic odyssey. I don’t want mental health to be an ‘angle’ that obscures that. But I don’t mind talking about it. Anytime I talk about it, I hope it’s helpful to someone else.”

Mit voller Rückendeckung seiner Shinedown-Bandkollegen forderte sich Eric Bass heraus, jede Zeile zu schreiben, alle Songs zu komponieren, sämtliche Instrumente einzuspielen sowie das gesamte Werk zu produzieren und abzumischen.

Letztendlich geht es bei Eric Bass Presents: I Had a Name wie bei jeder Unternehmung des in South Carolina geborenen Musikers um Authentizität. “I’m always about honesty in art”, so Bass. “When I listen to something, I want to hear that the person dug into the dirt and bled for it to happen. The truth always prevails.”

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