| Black River Drive | |
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Black River Drive (from left to right: Rusty McNaughton, Sam Browne, Matt Stone, Mike Tan) |
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| Background information | |
| Origin | Auckland, New Zealand |
| Genres | Rock |
| Years active | 2008–present |
| Labels | Unsigned |
| Website | Official site |
| Members | |
| Sam Browne Rusty McNaughton Matt Stone Mike Tan |
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Black River Drive are a rock band from Auckland, New Zealand. Black River Drive consists of Sam Browne (lead vocals, guitar), Rusty McNaughton (bass), Matt Stone (lead guitar, piano) and Mike Tan (drums).
Their first single, "Everywhere" was recorded at York Street Studios in Sept 2008 with Greg Haver and Clint Murphy.[1] The band's second single, "Bullet for your Gun", received a lot of radio play and reached #1 on New Zealand radio station and stayed there for 5 weeks The Rock's weekly countdown.[2] The bands third single also went straight to #1 on the same countdown staying there for 3 weeks beating out singles from Disturbed & Slash. Black River Drive played alongside I Am Giant and Luger Boa in the State of Rock tour of New Zealand, June/July 2010.
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After inking a deal with legendary independent record label Rhythm Method (Opshop, Fat Freddy’s Drop, Shapeshifter), Black River Drive’s debut album Perfect Flaws was released on October 4, 2010, delivering in spades the band’s potent mix of crunching, relentless guitars and raw, emotive melody. The album was produced with Greg Haver (The Feelers, Opshop) and Chris Van De Geer (Stellar*). The band released their debut album, "Perfect Flaws" on October 4, 2010, which went on to debut at #17 in the New Zealand Music Charts. So far the band has released four singles from the Perfect Flaws Album, all of which are in high rotate on the Rock Radio station. The single, Bullet for your gun has been nominated and is currently a finalist in the international songwriting competition.[3]
On March 3, 2011 Black River Drive released a special edition release of the Perfect Flaws album. In the final days of recording Perfect Flaws, the band recorded some songs in a more relaxed acoustic setting.
Initially gifting some tracks to Facebook fans as mp3s, the band decided to release all five songs in full CD quality as a limited release.[4]