By Anthony Mclaude, Rock At Night Philly
Review:VEER’s single/video for “Red Tide”-December 20, 2020
On the unrelenting infectious steer of a worldwide outbreak, award-winning American hard rock band, VEER takes a dimly illuminated snapshot of what’s going on in our place of time and records its newly released single/music video, Red Tide from their upcoming album Soft Machines.
VEER, fronted by horror author Ronald Malfi, is an Amazon Top 100 album charter due to the launch of their December 1, 2018 album, Apocalyptic, Baby, was formed in early 2016 by four hook-a-licious rock heads, Ronald Malfi (songwriter), Jon Malfi (drummer), Ryan Fowler (lead guitarist), and Christian Mathis (bassist). While rising to the top without fall of the mid-Atlantic music scene that same year, they have also been awarded Best Rock Artist at the Maryland Music Awards. But the accolades didn’t fall there, as they then rose up to receive an award for Best Rock Song for their single, Come Clean, by the World Songwriting Awards.
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Red Tide, which became officially released on December 20, 2020, is a moody melodramatic record washed ashore with nothing but trouble on all streaming platforms, as well as a shadowy badass juxtapose music video to support the half light single. The music video, directed by Fear of Clowns filmmaker, Kangas Kahn, and engineered and co-produced by Steve Wright from one of the successful and creepy aggressed masked groups of the century, Slipknot, is an attention-grabbing visual aid along the foreboding Southwest Florida shore of a river at night. This “I’ve been here before” line is a familiar tide, revisiting history like a strung algal bloom anthem based on society’s current catastrophic events.
Hard devotees of the Annapolis, Maryland rockers will enjoy highlighting this energetic light of change, for better or for worse on the dock of 2021. VEER, among the mid-Atlantic elite have earned their place while working on new music and on a new album. In quarantine, a pocket of inspiration was found, and they’re eager to share this melancholic, yet hopeful chorus with their fans.
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Growing up as a child in a Christian household raised by a single mother and grandmother during the 1990s was such an awe-inspiring adventure. In his Elementary School days, he took a feeling of attraction towards rock ‘n’ roll music as he heard "Beast of Burden" by The Rolling Stones, and "Don’t Let Me Down" by The Beatles playing from his uncle’s 1970 Chevy Malibu garage. Records by Madonna, Alanis Morissette, the Fugees, and Lil Suzy were also being played throughout the house by his mother, dressed in a black leather biker jacket and who would occasionally put the radio on blast.
In 7th grade back in 2002/2003 school year, Mclaude had written the number-one narrative story amongst the class and caught the attention of his then teacher, Mrs. DeFeo as she called him upfront and said “Anthony, your story on ‘The Volcano King’ is incredible. You should be a writer.” Ever since that day, Mclaude in his rebel without a cause era has always kept those words in mind as a way to keep pushing himself past the limits. As fifteen years past, he enrolled himself in Cumberland County College studying journalism and wrote for the university’s Award-Winning Newspaper, The Voice as he grew as a creative and tenacious reporter with a nose for news, and a passion for community journalism. In spite of the blessings outshining the hard times, he received the opportunity to be a staff writer for a local news outlet, The People’s Press of Millville, where he has written five articles, two press releases, page growth, and has received encouraging feedback from the community.
Today he is currently working for the magazines of Eclectic Shades and Rock at Night.
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