Mirror Queen Announce New Guitarist
New York City’s Mirror Queen released their second full-length, Scaffolds of the Sky (review here), earlier this year on Tee Pee Records. Like their 2011 debut, From Earth Below, it basked in influences from classic heavy and progressive rock, and proffered a natural mellowness from a locale built on a foundation of intensity as much as concrete. The album took Mirror Queen to Europe for not the first time, where they toured this summer alongside Danava before returning to play the Tee Pee-affiliated Cosmic Sonic Rendezvous in Brooklyn with Saviours, Witch, The Skull and others.
As they look ahead to 2016, the band has announced that Morgan McDaniel has taken over on guitar alongside founder Kenny Sehgal (formerly of Kreisor). McDaniel takes the role formerly occupied by Phil “Phi Moon” Ortanez, and comes to Mirror Queen via Brooklyn’s The Golden Grass, for whom he handled bass for about the last year, touring in Europe and the US in that time. No word on if there have been any other changes to Mirror Queen‘s lineup, but the band has been through a number of guitarists over the years, including Thomas Bellier of Blaak Heat Shujaa and others.
It seems like a safe bet they’ll head abroad again at some point in the New Year, so worth keeping an eye out for that, and in the meantime, the announcement from the band was quick, and you can find it in its entirety below:
Mirror Queen would like to welcome Morgan McDaniel to the fold. You might’ve seen him at clubs around town playing bass or perhaps running a soundboard, but he’s also a gifted guitarist and an all around good gent! See you all in 2016!
Mirror Queen is:
Kenny Sehgal: guitar/vocals
Morgan McDaniel: guitar
James Corallo: bass
Jeremy O’Brien: drums
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