If you think preordering a live album is going a little overboard, you probably weren’t in the room when Death Alley played Roadburn 2016 this past April. On Feb. 24, the Amsterdam heavy rockers will issue their set from the Green Room, the second day of the fest (review here), for which they were joined by Ron van Herpen (Astrosoniq, ex-The Devil’s Blood, currently of ZooN) and Jevin de Groot (ex-M?hr) to fill out a six-piece lineup whose output from the stage was as massive and overwhelmingly immersive as fest organizer Walter Roadburn describes it in his liner notes below, which he posted via social media and which I snagged to put here as much for posterity as for the info and perspective they provide. Death Alley were supporting and continue to support their 2015 Tee Pee Records debut, Black Magick Boogieland (review here), but I wouldn’t be surprised if they started to move further past it in the New Year. Already this past summer they had new material on-hand at The Obelisk All-Dayer in Brooklyn, which as it happens was captured on video by Frank Huang. Covering the US and Europe, respectively, Tee Pee Records and Suburban Records are collaborating on the release.
