Brand New Sin: New Line up!

MAJOR LINE-UP CHANGE FOR BRAND NEW SIN: WILL THESE GUYS EVER GIVE UP? HELL NO!

Facing a considerably challenging decision to be made about the future of BNS, new singer Joe Sweet has decided to focus on his family and his many personal endeavors. As the co-organizer of The [annual] Utica Music and Arts Fest http://www.uticamusicfest.net and the proud father to be (for the second time in June), Joe has decided that the best move is to back out before recording vocal tracks for Brand New Sin's 4th full length album. The recording is due to hit the streets in June and Sweet will not be available to tour.

Hold on...that's not all...

After 10 plus years of sharing the stage with fellow band mates Chuck Kahl and Kris Wiechmann (in both Godbelow and Brand New Sin) Kenny Dunham has also departed to pursue other interests.

Whew!

That said, Brand New Sin has a new CD on the horizon! Kris Wiechmann, guitarist, principal songwriter and lyricist, has bravely decided to step center stage to become lead vocalist of Brand New Sin. Kris will be honing his vocal skills every Monday at Mac's Bad Art Bar in Mattydale, NY with the "Home Town Zeros" [Brand New Sin 'unplugged']. Brand New Sin also would like to officially welcome Ed Carpenter to the family on guitar and vocals! Ed is well known in Central New York for his guitar work in Titanium Black [who recently performed in Germany and Sweden].

Catch Brand New Sin at Mac's Bad Art Bar in Syracuse, NY Friday, March 13, 2009 for Kris Wiechmann's debut on lead vocals!

Studio

Yes, it has been a while. Although I am very talkative I had nothing to say. It's not that there was nothing going on...rather the opposite is true. I think I have been overwhelmed with plans and events unfolding before me that I needed to step back for a while and see where it would lead.

We are currently recording our 4th full length CD! I can't wait for you to hear it! We actually committed to the studio in November. That gave us 6-8 weeks to polish these songs in pre-production and get them ready for the studio. We started tracking last Wednesday at 8:00pm and I left at 1:30am Thursday morning with all the drum tracks completed. I've never done that before but it just goes to show what can happen when you believe in something and pour your heart and soul into it.

At this time the drum and bass tracks are done and half of the rhythm guitar tracks are done.

Stay tuned...

Raleigh 10-25-08

RALEIGH, NC 10-25-08
PHOTOS BY
BARRY KNAIN

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Review of The Palace Show:

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Review
Sunday, October 05, 2008
By Mark Bialczak
Staff writer
Joe Sweet knew he was stepping onto some special turf Saturday night at the Palace Theatre.
The singer from Utica was fronting his first show in his new band's hometown. For the first time since Sweet replaced front man Joe Altier in January, Brand New Sin took the stage in Syracuse.
"You've heard of us," Sweet told the wildly enthusiastic crowd of about 250 pushing toward the stage in the Eastwood theater. "You've heard of them. Brand New Sin. I'm very thankful that they allow me to play with them, with such a level of professionalism."

Sweet-for-Altier worked just fine, thank you.
At first it was a bit jarring to see guitarists Kenny Dunham and Kris Weichmann, bassist Chuck Kahl and drummer Kevin Dean playing behind a skinny guy wearing glasses instead of a burly guy wearing a bandana.
But as soon as Sweet got into the first song, "Freight Train," it was obvious that the transformation worked. He's got the voice and the attitude to keep the sizzle in Brand New Sin's hard rock.
Sweet's deep history in Utica's rock scene - Dunham and Dean invited him to take over the front-man role because they remembered his work with Utica band Nine Ball - carried through in a big way. He worked the crowd with energy and style, trading stares, gestures and lyrics back and forth with the most enthusiastic fans in the front.
Dunham and Weichmann, meanwhile, carried on with their sizzling guitar ways, and the rhythm section of Kahl and Dean pummeled the ears with power and thrash.
The crowd responded to the chemistry by chanting "Brand New Sin, Brand New Sin, Brand New Sin" until Sweet stepped forward to thank them.
They dug their favorite songs from the last half-decade, including "Arrived," "Brown Street Betty," "Old" and "Repo Man." They let Sweet dip into his past for a wild and fun ride on his song, "Question."
And they unveiled a ripping new Brand New Sin song, which sounded like it was introduced by Sweet with the title of "Fly." It showed a bright future of songs written with Sweet, too. That's good, because an Eastern tour is here right now, with October stops for Brand New Sin in Massachusetts, New Hampshire, Virginia and North Carolina as well as downstate, in Yonkers.
The Brand New Sin guys tried to make it a night of fun at the Palace.

For openers, they enlisted Madame Trixie and Her Dolls Burlesque. The four dancers teased with vaudevillelike bumps and grinds. Their speech said they were out of the 1920s, but some of the soundtrack they danced to and many of their moves were from the here-and-now. The finale, to Van Halen's "Hot for Teacher," let them all display their wiliest ways.
Then came Ithaca band Bone Jar, for a pleasing set of metal that certainly warmed up those that chose to stay in the theater instead of preparing for Brand New Sin's set by drinking and socializing in the lobby.
Mark Bialczak can be reached at 470-2175 or mbialczak@syracuse.com. His Listen Up blog is at
blog.syracuse.com/listenup