7 Seconds Signs To Rise Records

Rise Records have signed the legendary hardcore band 7 Seconds to their roster.

Forming in Reno, NV in January 1980, 7 Seconds was the originator of the West Coast Hardcore sound that has had untold influence on the punk landscape as they were one of the first to do the positive hardcore attitude. Unlike many bands from that era, the band still has its original 3 members from 1982: Kevin Seconds, Steve Youth and Troy Mowat, plus Bobby Adams, who has been with the band since 1986.

The band will be recording new material this summer in Sacramento with plans to release a new 7″ record followed shortly thereafter by a new full length album. Kevin Seconds expanded:

We have about 20 new songs that we’ll record the best 13 songs from.  This new record will be all about the energy and drive we still very much possess as a hardcore band.  It’s been 9 long years since we’ve recorded a new album so there’s a great deal of urgency in them, with just the right mixture of both fast and mid-tempo tunes for people to sink their teeth into.

There is also talks of re-releasing back catalog for a special edition vinyl box-set and possibly recording their first 20 songs written in 1979 in which only 3 were recorded using a hand held tape recorder.