A Vulture Wake (SOURCE: Earshot Media / Thousand Islands Records)

Midwest Rockers A Vulture Wake hit harder, darker, and more soulful on their upcoming EP, Kingdom. It will be their sophomore effort and first of two releases slated for 2022 produced, engineered, and mixed by Mike Kennerty (The All-American Rejects, These Enzymes, Screeching Weasel.) It's been lauded as sounding "exactly how I thought it would sound" by NOFX frontman and Fat Wreck Chords founder Michael "Fat Mike" Burkett. Kingdom is lyrically dystopian while building a feeling of hope and victory—all under A Vulture Wake's mantra of "do no harm; take no sh*t." A press release explains, "their new single, "Red," is a rallying cry for the people and a punch in the gut to the "cult of c*cks" spreading the disease of dread and deceit across nations of souls reaching for hope." A Vulture Wake's "Red" shrouds a wicked battle for righteousness with a danceable cloak of hooks and Pop-laden pith.


"Choke," the second single from the Kingdom EP, will drop upon the terribly unsuspecting masses on May 10th, as well. Throw Prog, Pop, and Hard Rock into a blender, filter it through a fever dream, and you're left with this gem. "Choke" is the serious music fan's best friend with its jagged swagger and abstract vision of mental deterioration. Kingdom EP was produced by Mike Kennerty with all music engineered, edited, and mixed by Kennerty in Fall of 2021 at his Quarantine bunker/studio in Edmond, Oklahoma. It was later mastered in January 2022 by Jason Livermore at The Blasting Room in Fort Collins, Colorado. A Vulture Wake is vocalist/guitarist Chad Price (ALL, Drag The River, Ex-Armchair Martian,) guitarist Brandon Landelius (The Mag Seven, Ex-Authority Zero,) drummer John Hernandez (They Stay Dead, Wretch Like Me,) and bassist Dave Klein (The Bi-Products, They Stay Dead, Ex-Black Flag.) A Vulture Wake's "Red" is now available on streaming services. Their next single, "Choke," drops 5/10 and Kingdom EP comes out 6/10 both on Thousand Islands Records.