Following the release of debut album Tomorrow’s Sky, Irish hard rock band Mine Road, issue new single ‘Tightrope’.
A high-energy rollercoaster packing a serious punch, the band said: The basic premise of this song is that you always have a choice in life to make things better for yourself. The chorus echoes this sentiment with the simple framing of walking the tightrope of life or walking away from the pressures and demands of modern life and choosing a healthier more sustainable path. Everyone is different so every path will be different, seek your own path rather than follow what people think is right for you”.
It follows previous single ‘Snowplough‘ – It’s been said Mine Road pen songs that were made to be played in arenas and ‘Snowplough’ is testament to this as the song builds to a crescendo of colourful melodies that surge with undeniable power and presence.
New album Tomorrow’s Sky features the tracks: ‘Snowplough’, ‘Tightrope’, ‘Into The Storm’, ‘American Dream’, ‘Blood On The Floor’, ‘Hold On You’, ‘Recall’, ‘Tomorrow’s Sky’, ‘Reeling’, ‘Start To Believe’ and ‘I’ll Be Home’.
Featuring brothers Stuart (guitar) and Steve Cash (drums), vocalist Ken Carthy, and guitarist Dave Flood, Mine Road said of the song: “The essence of the song is about loss. The feeling of being covered by a blanket of snow, with the negative aspect in life being the snow itself. We wanted to write a song to combat those negative emotions and try to get a positive take on the negative things in life, all the while finding strength to plough through to the other side.”
The band released Satellite, a four track EP as far back as 2012 but went on hiatus as Stuart moved to Sydney, Australia soon after its release. Songwriting tentatively began again as the two brothers began to trade ideas between continents, Stuart living in Sydney with Steve basing himself in New York. A return to Dublin in 2019 for the brothers opened the possibility of a Mine Road revival as Carthy and Flood all returned to the fold.
After completing the writing process for their first full length album, the band decided to tour Ireland after covid had shut down live performances for the previous two years. With a successful run of shows nationally under their belt, the band knuckled down to the task of recording debut album Tomorrow’s Sky, that is said to be “bursting with high-energy, and powerhouse hard-rock anthems.”
Available digitally, you can check out the videos to both singles here at RAMzine.
