BLINDSTONE are proud to announce the new album ”Scars To Remember”. After being the best-kept secret within the heavy side of blues rock, as part of the “closed” blues scene for two decades, the band is now moving to Mighty Music and finally getting the recognition they deserve. 

”Scars To Remember” is the tenth album from the Danish-based blues power trio, which has its stylistic roots in the late ’60s and ’70s, with inspiration from bands/artists such as Jimi Hendrix, Robin Trower, Frank Marino & Mahogany Rush, Deep Purple, Black Sabbath, and others. 

Formed more than two decades ago and having played countless shows in those years, Blindstone hit it hard in the US, due to their sound, and released most of their albums on the American label Grooveyard Records. Despite the long run, the band saw a turning point in their career when, in 2020, they were hired as the backing band for the blues legend Walter Trout, for a series of successful concerts around Denmark. This experience was a factor in inspiring the band to seek a slightly more direct and basic stylistic approach on their new album. The blues influence is particularly obvious in songs such as”Down For The Count”, ”Waste Your Time” and ”World Weary Blues”. 

Blindstone has always worn its influences on its sleeves, and ”Scars To Remember” does indeed contain obvious tips of the hat to influences such as Jimi Hendrix, Robin Trower, Trout, Stevie Ray Vaughan, Eric Gales, Jeff Healey, and others. 

As always with Blindstone, Andersen’s guitar work is a focal point, as is the tight ensemble playing of the band – for example, the instrumental ”The Fields Of Bethel” comes to mind – but the band’s lyrical universe has reached new levels of seriousness and depth in the bands new collaboration with Swedish lyricist Peter Svensson, who contributed lyrics to a large part of the album. The major concerns of recent years, with a global pandemic and war in Europe, have led the band’s lyrics in a more serious, soul-searching direction, as illustrated by songs like ”A Scar To Remember”, ”Drums Of War” and ”Drifting Away”. In other words, there are no stripper poles, hot-rodded cars, or silver dollar coins to be found in the lyrics, this time around. 

”Scars To Remember” is a strong entry in Blindstone’s extensive discography, and should appeal to fans of the band’s previous releases, the aforementioned artists, and fans of heavy, blues-based rock in general. 

“Scars To Remember” will be released on CD and digital formats via Mighty Music on August 11th, 2023. Pre-orders are available now via this link.

The first single from the album, of the track “Waste Your Time”, will be released next week on Friday and can be pre-saved here.

Tracklist:

1. Embrace The Sky
2. A Scar To Remember
3. Down For The Count
4. Waste Your Time
5. Drums Of War
6. Drifting Away
7. In The Eye Of The Storm
8. The Fields Of Bethel
9. Shining On Through
10. World Weary Blues

Lineup:
Martin Jepsen Andersen – guitars/vocals 
Jesper Vegeberg Bunk – bass 
Sigurd Jøhnk-Jensen – drums

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Mighty Music is proud to announce the signing of the Danish blues-rock power trio BLINDSTONE, a band with a solid past in which the label saw a brilliant future.

Guitarist and vocalist Martin Jepsen Andersen comments: “We are very excited about entering this new collaboration with Target Group / Mighty Music. Myself also being a member of Meridian, who have been working with Target for many years, we are no strangers to the label. Thus, we are also convinced that Target is the right place for Blindstone. We are very much looking forward to this new chapter in the 20-year history of Blindstone. Prepare for great things to come!“.

Blindstone is a true, old-school power trio, influenced by old giants like Jimi Hendrix, Cream, Robin Trower, Frank Marino, Deep Purple and Black Sabbath. That is, we find ourselves in a place where blues rock and hard rock meet, where there is both raw strength and occasionally psychedelic high ceilings.

It’s a musical universe with the big riff at the forefront, where the music takes time, with plenty of room for improvisation, and expressive, equilibrist guitar solos of the old 70’s school.

Blindstone has nine albums in its name and has toured in a large part of Europe. Most recently, Blindstone has acted as a backing band for blues legend Walter Trout, at a number of successful concerts in Denmark.