How We Feel come out with guns blazing on their debut album Ready For War — showcasing today on Tinnitist.
Armed with a modern-rock sound that doesn’t sacrifice melody and groove for volume and power, this rapidly rising Cleveland band make a memorable first impression with this electrifying and explosive 10-track salvo. From the anthemic thunder of the opening track Make It Out Alive to the propulsive pop-rock power balladry of the closing title track, Ready For War earns its stripes — especially when you consider it’s all the work of two men.
Vocalist Chris Bianchi (Forever In Terror) and drummer Brian Lamtman have been best friends for more than 20 years, but were finally inspired to make music together in early 2024. Influenced by Shinedown, Imagine Dragons and 30 Seconds To Mars, How We Feel are carving their name into the modern-rock scene with authenticity, energy, and purpose, coupled with a sound that has a fresh yet familiar edge.
Ready For War was recorded at the band’s new WareHouse Studio in Kent, Ohio. It was engineered by John Burke and produced and mixed by Paul Bartolome (Asking Alexandria, Escape the Fate), and mastered by Grammy winner Ted Jensen (Green Day, Bring Me The Horizon, Evanescence) at Sterling Sound in New York.
“Making this album has truly been an experience that we will never forget,” Bianchi says. “Ready For War is an album we’ve put an extreme amount of time and effort into. It has a lot of feeling and emotion related to the things we all face in our everyday lives at this point. I hope that listeners can relate and find their own solace in the album. It tells a story of triumph and overcoming along the way. It’s a story of truth and about how you never give up on your dreams.”
The title track is the focus for the album release, accompanied by a video directed by Jake Cole in Canton (home of the Pro Football Hall of Fame). “The video is meant to showcase the daily struggles and obstacles that many face be it through bills, relationships, daily life struggle but that love will always win,” Bianchi says. “It helps you find that light in the dark and at the end, you can win and you do triumph. The video is meant to our process: Going from writing in the basement, to recording the song in the studio — and ultimately performing live on stage for our fans.”
Bianchi earned a reputation as a powerful frontman from an early age. His band Forever In Terror were signed to Metal Blade Records when he was just 18 years old. F.I.T. toured the U.S. several times, opening for heavyweights Meshuggah, Machine Head, Chimaira and All That Remains, among others. When F.I.T. disbanded, Bianchi turned his sites towards toward the business side of music. In 2010 he launched CB Entertainment. He has established himself as a successful entrepreneur and artist manager.
Being immersed in the music business every day with Legend Recordings and his merchandising firm My Tour Merch, Bianchi was inspired to get back to making music and performing live again. “We hear so much great music every day, and we wanted to get back to creating our own songs,’ he says. “Our goal is to make music that crosses genres and doesn’t pigeonhole us to any specific one. We come from a hard rock / metal background and that will certainly be part of who we are. But at the end of the day, we want to make relatable music that reflects who we are and how we feel — that everyone can embrace.”
Listen to Ready For War below, watch the video for the title track above, and find How We Feel on their website, Facebook, Instagram and TikTok.
