Fans To Help Complete Album Artwork
New York, NY – St. Louis rockers Cavo have completed recording their upcoming album Thick as Thieves. The album, their first with top independent rock label Eleven Seven Music, is set for release in early 2012. Produced by Kato Khandwala (Blondie, Drowning Pool) David Bendeth (Paramore, Papa Roach, Breaking Benjamin) and Dan Korneff (All That Remains, My Chemical Romance), Thick as Thieves was recorded at House of Loud Studios in New Jersey. The title track and first single impacted at rock radio last week. With immediate adds in Chicago, Phoenix, Kansas City, St. Louis and thirteen other markets, the powerful sophomore debut is off to a promising start. Cavo is currently planning a short radio promo tour in select markets, to be announced shortly.
The music video for "Thick as Thieves" premiered on Yahoo! last week and was directed by Frankie Nasso, who has directed videos for Chevelle, the RZA, HellYeah! and All That Remains,. The video features Cavo performing on a hi-rise rooftop in St. Louis. To watch the video, click HERE (www.youtube.com/cavomusic).
In anticipation of the Thick As Thieves release, Cavo is calling on its fans to help finalize their cover art, which will be a collage of candid band shots taken by fans. To participate, fans should upload their photos of the band here (http://www.cavomusic.com/photo.html). Artwork is set to be revealed in early December.
"Our fans have always been so important to us, and we wanted to do something to really include them in the process of making this new album," comments singer Casey Walker. "We want to use their photos from our shows on the cover, which will truly allow them to be part of the fabric of Cavo. If it weren't for the fans, we wouldn't be here."
Cavo experienced an incredible measure of success with its debut, 2009's Bright Nights Dark Days, which yielded the No. 1 hit "Champagne." The band's rise to the top of the charts and subsequent touring nearly tore them apart, leaving their relationships with each other and as a unit in shreds. After a brief break and careful examination of their friendships and motives, Cavo decided to soldier on together. Thick as Thieves is the band's testament to their bond that was once broken and has now been rebuilt and even strengthened. The title track and first single showcases front man Casey Walker's soaring vocals with a message furthering the notion that things are tighter than ever in the Cavo ranks.
The track listing is as follows:
Thick as Thieves
Give it Away
Hold Your Ground
California
Circles
Celebrity
Never Gonna Hurt
War Within
Last Day
Run
Southern Smile
Formed in St. Louis in 2002, Cavo is Chris Hobbs (guitar), Chad LaRoy (drums), Brian Smith (bass) and Casey Walker (vocals). The band's last album, Bright Nights Dark Days, was released on Reprise Records in 2009 and sold over 120,00 albums and over 450,000 singles. The album spawned two top 10 hits, "Champagne" (which reached #1) and "Crash (peaked at #6). Cavo has toured with Daughtry, Nickelback, Lifehouse, Shinedown among others.
About The Eleven Seven Music Group
The Eleven Seven Music Group is a full service physical, digital and mobile record label group operating with global sales, distribution and marketing capabilities. The label group continues to build on its model of research-based marketing strategies targeted directly to the fans and building out from that base. The Eleven Seven Music Group's expanding roster includes Mötley Crüe, Buckcherry, Papa Roach, Crossfade, JET, Sixx:A.M., Drowning Pool, Cold and She Wants Revenge. Driven by a core group of thought leaders, the independent mini-major has in-house marketing, promotion, publicity, new media, International, sales, tour marketing, production, video promotion, creative services, business management, web design, advertising, development and other services to support every release.
Eleven Seven Music, the cornerstone of the Eleven Seven Music Group, is the Top Independent rock label of the year 2010 (Billboard) and Rock Label of the Year 2008 (FMQB) and Mediabase's #1 Independent Rock label, taking hold on a good portion of the rock charts since its inception in January 2006. Recent releases include the #1 independent release from Motley Crüe, the #2 soundtrack with Sixx:A.M.'s The Heroin Diaries Soundtrack and Buckcherry's Platinum and Grammy-nominated 15 and Drowning Pool's self titled #5 Independent disc. The label also dominated the iTunes 2008 and 2009 Critics and Sales Charts appearing at the top of most of the rock categories.
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