good ol heart and soul
carry me down to that rock n roll

Joe Stacy is a Singer Songwriter from Lexington Kentucky, He is a Veteran of the Global War on Terror serving 6 years and 3 deployments in the US Navy on board the USS Harry S Truman aircraft carrier.  In 2016, He recorded his debut album, Slight Dark Turn, with Josh Evans at Nubs Dubs Studios.  Though the album is new, most of the songs were written in the mid 90's to the early 2000's.  Many songs contain elements of the world's climate during these times.  Joe revised most of the songs while recording them to try to add maturity and experience to them.  "I try to make sure that the pain and passion is there, but I never want to leave feeling of hopelessness.  I try to make sure that there is positivity and hope at the end because that's how we make it through the dark times."  (Joe on Slight Dark Turn) "I think we were all pretty depressed back then (the 90's).  We watched our heroes die of drugs or suicide, It wasn't fully okay for people to be what they were born to be, a lot of suppressing feelings and forced conformance going on back then.  Some people have taken it too far in the other direction and are actively seeking something to find offensive, but all in all these are more positive times, granted we've seen war, we've seen struggle, we've seen real evil, and we've seen fear, but we've seen people overcome that in defiance.  Lately it seems there has been an intense backslide to that progress.  I tried to capture some of these things beyond the personal and emotional stuff on the album.  I felt the need to represent my generation, and some of the frustrations we see today"  

We are a sonic collective formed within a musical universe that draws its influences from the obscure imagery of the industrial / new wave movement of the last century, combined with visual inspirations such as Wim Wenders' Berlin and the claustrophobic spaces of Possession by Zulawski, which lead us towards the exploration and the definition of a strikingly personal sound. Our journey has been influenced and shaped by  the theme of ‘the double’ that governs the forces of nature and humanity.

 "It is as if I had two sisters, the Faith and the Case ... the Faith cannot exclude the Case. I am the engine of my own evil.”
 Possession. 1981

 Between action and reaction, Yin and Yang, Masculine and Feminine, the soundscapes that define our latest album "Vastness Hurts" recorded by Simon Maccari at the Peak Studio in Rubiera (Reggio Emilia - Italy) unfold. The vocal style and lyrical content generate an imaginary warmth and density. The guitars entangle a dangerous boiling magma and a glacial environment.  They are divided, distant and inevitably intertwined in a sound that stretches from support to definition, they are nuanced, dark and suggestive. The keyboards crash down like a vertical wave that amalgamates the vocal and guitar structures with the rhythmic ones, defined by a telluric, tribal and mathematical drum and, at the same time, by a bass that snakes underground and  connects the seemingly distant worlds of post -punk and post-rock. Through the  union of these components, our alchemical forge generates a form of music that resembles both the monstrous beauty of the biomechanical being of H.R. Giger and a lightning storm on top of an erupting volcano. We are born.

Lexington, KY Female fronted alternative rock group. Started by Brooke Pence and her partner Coty McKinney as just acoustic sessions with the two. They then started playing with friends they found in the local music scene while attending shows or while Coty was playing shows with local punk band RatBatRadio. Brooke and Coty started Hello There with Scottie and Audie in October 2014 and have since made the decision to transition Like Prey into a side project featuring friends and other talented musicians. 
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Brooke - Vocals & Guitar 
Coty - Guitar

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