Year : 2025
Style : Melodic Hard Rock
Country : Sweden
Audio : 320 kbps + all scans
Size : 83 mb
Bio:
Degreed is a Stockholm based Melodic Hardrock band formed in the beginning of 2005.Before degreed even released their first album they managed to tour Scandinavia and Germany, getting sponsored by legendary brands like Hagström and T-Rex, share stage with greats like Europe, Turbonegro, Millencolin among others and represent one of the largest musical instrument distributors in Europe – Musik Meyer on the largest public music fair in the world back in 2007.After many years of touring and gaining fans the band released their critically acclaimed debut album ”life,love,loss” in the fall of 2010 through Melodic Rock Records (Europe/USA), Spinning INC (Japan) and Rambo/Sony Music Entertainment (Sweden) which was followed by a tour in Sweden and a UK tour alongside VEGA.“..this first DEGREED album could well become THE album of the year!” – Gabor, MyGlobalMind.com (9/10 stars, Nov. 2010)Having recorded the first album with producer Erik Lidbom the band choose the easy way on the second studio album “We Don’t Belong”, having him to produce that one as well.Although on “We Don’t Belong” Erik also wrote/co-wrote a few songs for the album, amongst them two together with multiplatinum and Grammy Award winning singer/songwriter Bill Champlin (former singer of Chicago, songwriter for Earth, Wind and Fire etc.). Bill Champlin sang on the Chicago nr.1 hit “Look Away” as well as singles “You’re Not Alone” and “Hard Habit to Break“. On the second album by degreed Bill sings a verse in the song “In For The Ride”. Erik is also the best selling songwriter in Japan with over 16 million sold copies of the work he has done.“We Don’t Belong” was released on the 2nd of September 2013 and already that month it made “Album of the Month” in the 157:th issue of Brittish Powerplay Magazine. By the end of 2013 the album had received great reviews and also “Album of the Year” by Mårten Cederberg at Rocknytt.net.The single “What If” from the album has reached over 30 000 plays on Spotify and the video for the song as well as the video for the second single “Inside of Me” have reached over 15 000 views on YouTube.“We Don’t Belong is a near perfect slice of modern melodic rock which proves the future of the genre is very healthy. I was totally blown away by it and can’t stop playing it; I could get really fanatical about these guys.” – The Midlands Rock, Aug 10 – 2013 (10/10)In 2014 the band signed a management deal with Sun Hill Production and has since then been opening shows for Dan Reed Network on their shows in Sweden 2014, played Väsby Rock Festival and Special Guests at the Swedish Sid-Metal band Machinae Supremacy‘s European tour 2014 which took the band to countries like Poland, Czech Republic and Germany.The band just got back from a UK tour along with Australian White Widdow and Brittish Night by Night and have just finished the upcoming album “Dead But Not Forgotten” which will be released July 19:th through Sun Hill Production.
Album:
Swedish melodic rockers DEGREED released the new EP titled “The Leftovers Volume 1″ a couple of months ago. Now Frontiers Music put out ”The Leftovers Volume 1 [Expanded Edition]” including extra tracks.Despite its title, these songs are not ‘leftovers or discarded songs’, in fact for the last year and a half the band has been released some of the tracks as standalone singles.”The Leftovers Volume 1 [Expanded Edition]” includes the just recorded song “If It Wasn’t For Me”, an anthemic AOR tune with that early DEGREED sensibility from their origins. Among the other songs we find the dynamic modern melodic rocker ‘Good Enough’, the uptempo catchy ‘Love Your Enemy’, and ‘Wildchild (Tribute To Alexi Laiho)’, a tribute to the late Children of Bodom frontman, easily the heaviest song DEGREED ever recorded.“GET UP!!” makes justice to its title with its energetic punch, melody and anthemic chorus. “Hard To Be Human” is an atmospheric ballad, with a really cool feeling and a certain vibe of Def Leppard recent era.We also find a new version of a track from the band’s ‘Are You Ready’ album, a reworked take on ‘Falling Down (Acoustic Version)’ completely different from the original, and the fresh, awesome ‘This Is Love (Synthwave Version), the tracks from their latest album but totally 80s infused.As said, hardly ‘leftovers’, but very good songs from this talented band.
Line Up:
Robin Ericsson - Vocals/Bass
Daniel Johansson - Guitar/Backing Vocals
Mats Ericsson - Drums
Mikael Blanc - Keyboard
Tracklist:
01. If It Wasn't For Me (3:22)
02. Good Enough (4:24)
03. Love Your Enemy (3:22)
04. Wildchild (Tribute To Alexi Laiho) (3:18)
05. GET UP!! (3:16)
06. Hard To Be Human (4:13)
07. This Is Love (Synthwave Version) (Bonus Track)
08. Falling Down (Acoustic Version) (Bonus Track)
09. Hear Me Out (Previously Unreleased) (Bonus Track)
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