Mad About Rock

Toronto hard rockers Ascendia have created a sound that embodies their wide-ranging influences. Combining what they learned from commercial rock contemporaries with elements, they liked of Country and Pop songs and their upcoming album 'Parasite' strongly asserts this musical growth and transformation. With the release of the hard-hitting 'This War' as the first taste of their new album, we chatted to vocalist Nick Sakal to find out more about the band and their forthcoming album. Firstly, let’s go back to the beginning. What are your earliest memory of music and the moment you decided you wanted to be a musician? I didn’t grow up in a particularly musical family. My earliest memories of music would have to be around our dinner table when I was younger. I lived in a house with my grandparents alongside my mom, dad and 2 brothers. My grandmother had the most incredible voice and used to sing while my family gathered around the dinner table for dinner. Being a musician wa...

Cruising in from the Canadian Maritimes is TURBO, brandishing their signature brand of potent “Nitro-Rock”. To introduce this onslaught of riffs and madness to the world, they are releasing their debut album “Fast As Fvck” later this year and kicking the party off with the single ‘Alive’. Between them, the members of TURBO have played every loud-music genre there is to name and these experiences have worked together to shape the current sound with an emphasis on rock and punk. These genres formed the base for their planned debut full length, which TURBO explains in their own words: “Fast as Fvck is a sort of homage to true rock and roll in its most vicious and visceral form. Each of the seven tracks hit like a swift kick to the teeth from a whole new angle of attack, but the assault is far from a mindless battering to the eardrums. The album ebbs and flows through different moods and subtleties with sophisticated craftsmanship.” Coined as a gateway drug into the gritty rock-...