Soul-Stirring Hard Rock: Redlight King’s Best Albums & Influences

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As always with my Tuesday up-and-coming bands posts , I focus on bands with under 500,000 monthly streams on Spotify, hopefully you discover new music along with me on this journey. I’ll be adding 3 songs from these weekly posts to my own Spotify Playlist.

Background Information

Redlight King, a band hailing from Canada and America, is famous for their soul-stirring tunes with powerful choruses. While they have recently incorporated hip hop and dance elements into their music, at their core, they remain a hard rock band. Fronted by Mark Kasprzyk, this Los Angeles-based group has put out four albums, with a significant gap between the second and third. Their music, often heard on the radio and in movie soundtracks, has been featured in major films like The Italian Job, Iron Man, and The Avengers! Not only that, but they also excel at covering songs – just listen to their amazing rendition of Rush’s “Working Man”!

Redlight King – Working Man (All rights are retained by Redlight King)

Who Do They Sound Like?

Saint Asonia, Cavo & Flipsyde

Latest Album

Latest album released by the band is In Our Blood from 2023, which followed Moonshine , but my favourite by them is their debut album Something For The Pain. The bands on the upwards trajectory, it wont be long till they are back up to their very best.

Must Listen To Songs

Redlight King – Bullet In My Hand (All rights are retained by Redlight King)
Redlight King – Comeback (All rights are retained by Redlight King)
Redlight King – Lift The Curse (All rights are retained by Redlight King)

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5 responses to “Soul-Stirring Hard Rock: Redlight King’s Best Albums & Influences”

  1. Priti avatar

    Good videos 👍 well shared

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  2. spwilcen avatar

    Guitar licks good, bass overworked a bit, drums decent, lead axe not in front enough and does not oveccome the bass. Vocal? Meh.

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    1. Fox Reviews Rock avatar

      Fair enough 👍🏻 probably fair comments on the whole but I think they will get somewhere soon but yeah you’re right

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