NEWS: Yet more horror from Rockin’ Engine with “Room 185”!

Sometimes the glove just doesn’t fit… and in the case of Rockin’ Engine, well it’s the name of the band that doesn’t sit right. While their name may conjure for some a middle of the road Hard Rock band whose material isn’t going to cause any trouble to anyone ever, these Canadians actually take their inspiration from Gojira and Rob Zombie and sound absolutely nothing like the name would suggest. They pay tribute to the “The Shining” with their latest single “Room 185” featuring guest vocals from Stef Jomphe of Insurrection fame and marks the second cut from their third studio recording “Altered By Evil”, a horror concept EP that drops 7th July. Pre-orders are available over at bandcamp.

While trying not to replicate what’s already out there, vocalist Steve O Leff started writing lyrics inspired by certain details in his favourite movies. He comments on how this single came to be: “Jack Torrance, the character played by Jack Nicholson in Stanley Kubrick’s The Shining, has to be my favourite horror movie character of all time. That performance is what made me addicted to horror movies. I wanted to write a song about this movie as an homage to this masterpiece. When we started to work together on this song, we soon realized that this would be our heaviest composition to date, and we needed someone to help us express this emotion in order to be satisfied with our work. After doing some research, we approached Insurrection’s lead vocalist Stef Jomphe in an attempt to have his voice on the track, just to make it that much better! We were absolutely honoured and excited when he accepted the project and headed straight to the studio. This song hits you in a way that you have no choice but to headbang!”