Black River Drive

Black River Drive is a rock band from Auckland, New Zealand. Black River Drive consists of Sam Browne (lead vocals, guitar), Rusty McNaughton (bass), Matt Stone (piano, synths), Mike Tan (drums) and Davie Wong (lead guitar).

Black River Drive
OriginAuckland, New Zealand
GenresRock
Years active2008–present
LabelsUnsigned
MembersSam Browne
Rusty McNaughton
Matt Stone
Karl Woodhams
Davie Wong
WebsiteOfficial site

Black River Drive toured New Zealand extensively in 2010 and 2011, before starting to work on their second album, that was released on November, 7th, 2014.

History

Perfect Flaws

After signing with record distributor Rhythm Method (Opshop, Fat Freddy’s Drop, Shapeshifter), Black River Drive’s debut album Perfect Flaws was released on 4 October 2010. Greg Haver and Chris Van De Geer produced the album. Many tracks were mixed by Tim Palmer at '62 Studios in Austin, Texas.

Special edition

On 3 March 2011, Black River Drive published a special edition release of the Perfect Flaws album. On the final day of recording Perfect Flaws, the band recorded some songs in a relaxed, live acoustic setting. Initially gifting some tracks to Facebook fans as MP3s, the band made all five songs available in full CD quality as a limited release.[1]

Quicksand

Black River Drive's album Quicksand was produced by Toby Wright in Nashville, had additional guitars tracked by Zorran Mendonsa in Auckland, mixing by Forrester Savell in Melbourne, and mastering by Jens Borgen Fascination Street in Sweden. This international effort has added up to one of NZ's biggest rock albums of 2014.

The album was recorded over two months in Nashville, Tennessee with US hard rock and metal producer Toby Wright, the man behind albums by the likes of Alice in Chains, Metallica, Slayer, Sevendust and Ozzy Osbourne. It was funded through a $20k crowdfunding campaign and received government funding from NZOA. The album was mixed by Australian rock producer and engineer Forrester Savell (I Am Giant, Karnivool, Dead Letter Circus) and mastered at Fascination Street in Sweden.

Their new album is scheduled for release on 7 November 2014.

Discography

Albums
Year Title Details Peak chart
positions
NZ[2]
2010 Perfect Flaws
  • Label: Black River Records
  • Catalogue: B00NN1CNQW
 17
2014 Quicksand
  • Released: 7 November 2014
  • Label: Black River Records
  • Catalogue: B00Q7TC3XA
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"—" denotes a recording that did not chart or was not released in that territory.

References
  1. "Perfect Flaws Special Edition | Amplifier NZ Music". Archived from the original on 11 October 2012. Retrieved 25 March 2011.
  2. "BLACK RIVER DRIVE IN NEW ZEALAND CHARTS". charts.nz. Hung Medien. Retrieved 12 April 2017.
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