Rocky Votolato has a new band, Suzzallo, a trio featuring Steve Bonnell (Schoolyard Heroes) on bass and and Rudy Gajadhar (Waxwing) on drums.
The band shared "River," which will be on the band's debut full-length out on May 2, titled The Quiet Year. It is self-released in the US and handled by Thirty Something Records in EU.
The band formed after Votolato lost his child in a car accident and plays fuzzed out rock merged with Votolato's established lyrical/vocal style.
“I guess it all started to take shape in the summer of 2022, about six months after Kienan [they/them] passed,” Votolato says via press release. “I knew I needed a louder, bigger, more explosive sound to say what I needed to with this project. This kind of personal tragedy rearranges everything about you as a human and artist. I needed a new channel to express what I was going through and the only thing that made any sense to me were the most distorted guitar sounds I could find.”
The Quiet Year track list:
1. River
2. The Destroyer
3. Constellations
4. Tsunami Waves
5. Star String Radio
6. We Are The Clouds
7. Time Machine
8. Magical Thinking
9. Shattered Stars
10. Broken Dragon Wings
11. Eulogy
