Artist Info: Vale

There is more than one artist with this name;

1) Black metal / crust from Oakland, California.

2) Atmospheric black metal / post rock from Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.

3) Colombian duo of singer-songwriter sisters Valeria and Valentina Perez.

4) There are countless bands that embody and thus perpetuate the image of their own locale, time, even genre—Vale is not one of them. Rebelling against the restrictions of the Orange County image, Vale plants their roots deeper: 1980’s British rock, to be exact. [read more...]