Blessed By A Broken Heart | Seriously? …No
okingly(?) claiming Journey, Cher and Boys II Men as their major influences, the dudes in Blessed By A Broken Heart maintain that they just stumbled into this 80’s metal-core-esc sound, “Basically, we were just like a metal-core band. On our first album there are a few little hints of 80’s stuff but we never woke up one morning and were like ‘Lets write an 80’s album.’ Every song we wrote just kind of had a more 80’s influence.” “For me,” says Tony Gambino, Blessed’s front man, “I was born in ’81 and I had two older sisters and I grew up listening to all that stuff. After playing hardcore for a long time you kind of get sick of it and just kind of play stuff that you like and that’s fun and that’s basically how it came out.”
If you have never seen Blessed in concert, stumbled past their Myspace, or heard A Day To Remember repping them hard from their time slot on the Van’s Warped Tour this summer then you have been missing out for quite a while now. Their unique ‘80’s guitar and keyboard solo’s, electronic drums and anthem-like lyrics blend perfectly with brutal breakdowns and screamed verses to set Blessed By A Broken Heart apart from the pack of constant metal-core repetition.
It is never too late to jump on board though as it looks like the sextet is heading into the studio to lay down some fresh 80’s Metal-core for us very soon. “We’re actually writing the record now so we’re in pre-production” Gambino tells us, “It’s going to kick the ass of Pedal to the Medal. You can bleep that out if you need to but there’s no other way to describe it.”
As we sat and talked behind their crowded booth at a Northwest festival we joked about their reactions to Goose dying at the end of the movie Top Gun. Tony laughed saying “…I usually just run outside and do donuts in my corvette.” Bassist Tyler Hoare, (who, completely unphased, and wearing no pants at the time because they were being mended) added “It makes me want do the punch dance from Flashdance.” Our conversation was brief but you could tell that Blessed By A Broken Heart is out to have a good time with the music they make and the time that they have been given to do it in this life.
