Step Sisters

In February of 2017 Step Sisters entered the studio with Jeremy Fergeson of Battle Tapes studio in Nashville to record their first full length record. With the freedom that Jeremy provided as knowledgeable engineer and co-poducer, Step Sisters recorded the majority of the 12 song album “Berseker” in just 4 days. The recording exemplifies the album’s title bringing unarmored, unhinged emotion and music that attacks with reckless abandon.“Caterpillar” and “Waste My Head” while are crushingly heavy, laden with thick guitars and fast pulsing bass while “Be Strange” and “Whistler” show a focused intensity that shows a range in songwriting. Mixed and mastered by Fergeson, “Berserker” will be released December 7th, 2017.

Step Sisters formed in the summer of 2014 after longtime friends Nate Smith (Drums) and Adam Swafford (Guitar, Vocals) went looking for additional members for their new project, The Volts. Matt Johanson (bass) and Clint Wilson (Vocals / Guitar), were asked to rehearse a Volt’s set. The foursome’s musical connection was immediate with this lineup and within three months the newly formed Volts were performing around Nashville. When the musical fingerprint of the band started to emerge they group toured under The Polish Falcons before finally becoming Step Sisters.
With a handful original material now written, Step Sisters employed the help of friend and collaborator Ben Weber to record their first EP. In true DIY form, Adam and Ben combined microphones, cables, computers, and tape machines to set up a studio in a still-under-construction brewery to capture what would be the basic tracks for the majority of Step Sisters’ debut EP, “THICK”. Shortly after “the warehouse sessions” Step Sisters reassembled at an unnamed theater to record “Your Picture”, “Nerve War”, and 3 more songs that would make it onto later releases. Released in February of 2015, “THICK” received high praise from local and national press outlets.

“Full of earth smashing, teeth shattering smart licks and the biggest power chords the Nashville-four can muster...[”Dumb Love,”] a song of pulling away from the paved texture paths of feigned hearts of emptiness commences with one of the biggest opening shred-fests that you probably haven’t heard since 1996 where a minute and 10 seconds pass before the lyrics spill forth.” - Impose Magazine

“Catchy enough to get stuck in your head and heavy enough to let you know they mean business, Step Sisters are doing grunge right. And their 4-song release, dropped earlier this year...is like smashing a lava lamp and pouring the contents directly into your brain.” - The Deli Magazine

“The relative newcomers are quickly becoming a “need to know” band on the rise...With poppy, punk-tinged hooks fused with fuzzy, garage rock riffs, the hypnotic track has us already penciling in a spot on our Best of 2016 list in anticipation of the
album. Despite its accessible sound, don’t think the song lacks substance.” -- No Country For New Nashville

“If it’s a healthy dose of cynicism you’re looking for... Nashville garage-rockers Step Sisters have just the thing.” - Diffuser
“It’s like the Southern resurrection of the Seattle scene, based in “Lithium” and recorded to tape to bring you into a fuzzed-out, punk-stained world that’s infinitely more gritty and alive than whatever the Nashville vibe has been these cold and dreary days.” - Lockland Springsteen

The proceeding year the band toured across the southeast, midwest, and east coast. Most notably a two-show night in New York which yielded a development deal with Warner Bros. Records, though creative differences between the band and label would later dissolve that relationship. The band continued touring through summer, while consistently creating new material.

Going into 2018 Step Sisters are touring and writing more material for their next full length album, to be released by the start of 2019.