eMusic Pick of the Day: Severed

“Severed” by MUNK

Dark, brooding and dangerous. This album has hooks that will sink deep into your flesh and make you keep hitting the repeat button.

As the walls of the traditional record industry crumble down and artists like Radiohead, Nine Inch Nails and Madonna strike out to peddle their wares directly to the consumer, is there any hope for an up-and-coming independent artist to reach the status of “international superstar”? While the major label behemoth slowly lumbers to stop the bleed, just beneath the shallow surface of popular consciousness, New Media is in rapid, exponential growth, poised to surpass the business model of the old guard.

After the release of his beats driven debut, 2001’s ANIME SWEETHEART and the confessional, hard rock follow-up 2003’s SEVERED, [munk] was critically lauded in traditional press, regional major market radio and national college radio. The Boston Globe wrote, “[munk] crafts his music with intelligence and panache. Can superstar status be far behind?” He was invited by the program director at WFNX, Boston to perform alongside signed touring artists in the Phoenix Best Music Poll, was the listener voted feature artist on WBCN’s Buzzcut for two weeks and had the phone lines lit for a solid hour at WAAF after an interview and debut of tracks from SEVERED. Two songs from SEVERED received honors in the 11th Annual Billboard World Song Contest, noted as “demonstrations of the talent and dedication it takes to write a hit song” by Billboard Contest Director David Kindred. [munk] also earned Top 30 airplay on over 100 college radio stations around the country.

Make sure you check out “Blow Away” (the closing titles theme song to “Number One with a Bullet”)

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