10 Years will release a digital EP titled “Inner Darkness” on October 11! You’ll hear the lead single, “The Optimist”, on radio next week.
The “Inner Darkness” EP includes a version of “The Optimist” with guest vocals by Conquer Divide‘s Kia Taylor. When the Kia and 10 Years singer Jesse Hasek first met on Zoom, guitarist and producer Brian Vodinh said, “We talked about touring and recording and basically nerded out and hit it off really well. Then we mentioned the idea of a collaboration, which is where everything started.” Hasek adds, “We thought it would be fun to give it a new twist since it has been out there for a while. Kia’s name came up and I’ve always enjoyed female vocalists and I thought it would be especially cool to inject her voice into our style of music. She had the right vibe and a great attitude and she really went for it. It was a fun, painless process and it came out even better than I expected it to.”
10 Years are currently touring with Sevendust and will open Theory Of A Deadman‘s tour starting at the end of October. Once those dates are completed, you should expect the band to release a full album. Vodinh said there are more than a dozen songs nearly finished in his home studio.
Vodinh said, “There was such a massive catalog of built-up material we went through — great demos that have everything on them except the vocals — that it was really hard to come up with the right songs that flowed together in the right way. There are a dozen other songs that are really strong and just need to be finished up, and we kept going back and forth, bouncing from one song to another for all eternity to try to figure out what to use. In the end, we used the ones Jesse felt the best about vocally, but there’s plenty of great stuff left to work with.”
A full-length studio album is planned for a ’25 release.
10 Years is Jesse Hasek (lead vocals), Brian Vodinh (guitar, backing vocals), Matt Wantland (guitar), Chad Grennor (bass) and Luke Narey (drums).
Talk about underrated bands. 10 Years’ band picture should be beside the definition in New Webster’s english dictionary.
