Melodic hard rockers The Big Deal’s new studio album Electrified is due out on 17th January 2025, via Frontiers Music Srl.
“We are very happy that we have come to the moment to announce our second album Electrified, together with Frontiers Records,” said guitarist Srdjan Brankovic. “We had the honour to collaborate for the first time with great artists such as Anders Wikstrom (Treat) and Jona Tee (H.E.A.T.), who helped us compose some songs. If you like melodic metal/rock, melodic vocals, plenty of keyboard and guitar melodic solos, two great female vocalists intertwining in harmony, we think you’ll love the album too.”
The Big Deal first came together in 2020 when guitarist, composer, and producer Srdjan and vocalist and keyboardist Nevena Brankovic, who is an academic pianist and singer, started working on some demo songs and covers with the drummer Marko Milojevic. By the end of the year, they thought it would be interesting to include Ana Nikolic’s vocals in addition to Brankovic’s.
The band signed a contract with Frontiers Records, after Alessandro Del Vecchio heard the demo recordings, and he was their bass player until 2023, when he left due to personal commitments. In joint plans with Frontiers Records, an album was recorded during 2021, which was released in May 2022, named First Bite.
The album attracted a lot of attention, especially the songs ‘Sensational’ and ‘Never Say Never’, that was named the most viewed video of 2022 on the Frontiers YouTube channel. The album even reached the ninth place of the best-selling metal albums on the British Amazon list, in the first weeks after its release.
Immediately after the release of the album, the band became active in concerts and received offers to perform at many great festivals, among which performances on “The KissKruise” sea tour in October 2022, from Los Angeles to Mexico, where the band was part of the line- up together with Kiss, Dokken, Lita Ford, Warrant, George Lynch, and LA Guns. Another highlight was at the Rock Imperium Festival in Spain, June 2023, where the band shared the main stage with Europe and Deep Purple.
In addition to his work with The Big Deal, Srdjan spent many years with Alogia, who opened for bands such as Whitesnake, Savatage, Apocalyptica. He also performed as a part of Michael Matijevic’s (Steelheart) band in Bulgaria, guested on Shadow Gallery’s album Digital Ghosts and guitarist on the first Ronnie Romero solo album, Raised On Radio. In 2023, Brankovic and Nikolic sang on the Michael Bolton Tribute album Steel Bars.
Bass on the Electrified is played by Brankovic and Nikola Mijic – bass, while tracks featured are: ‘ Survivor’, ‘ Like A Fire (Electrified)’, ‘Fairy Of White’, ‘Better Than Hell’, ‘Broken Wings’, ‘Don’t Talk About Love’, ‘Burning Up’, ‘Coming Along’, ‘They Defied’, ‘More Than A Man’, ‘Break Down The Walls’ and ‘Dare To Dream’.
The album can be ordered here.
