Dogs Of Winter unleash snarling EP

After just a few short months together, Brooklyn's DOGS OF WINTER are releasing their debut EP, Cut Down To The Quick on November 8th through Exotic Recordings.

A collection of dark songs that revolve around doomed romances and abusive relationships, Down To the Quick is music that has been raised out in the cold and hardened in the bitter wind - lean, sinewy and mean. It's heavy, but cut close to the skin; elegant and graceful, but never quite too pretty.

DOGS OF WINTER came to be during the faint nights of a December in Brooklyn. After a decade of working together in various projects and temporary situations, childhood friends Dave Valle (drums) and Brian Grosz (guitars, vocals) came together in a basement studio and began to meticulously workshop their material.

Grosz was recovering from a broken hand - a heavily-medicated month-long stretch in a plaster cast during which he sketched out an album's worth of material using only five fingers and a piano. The songs quickly evolved from sparse, sketch-like compositions into the realm of towering guitars, thunderous drums and gravel-ragged vocals. They recruited former collaborator Seth Berkowitz on bass (Grosz and Berkowitz played together alongside future members of The Bravery in Conquistador) and the trio began their soldier's march into the fray of the NYC rock-scene.

The DOGS OF WINTER sound combines the soaring dynamics of the Deftones with the guitar-rock swagger of Queens of the Stone Age. They toy with the experimentation of Quicksand and bathe in the gravel-pits of Jawbreaker without abandoning the hooks of a Foo Fighters anthem.

IT'S PRIMAL, IT'S LOUD AND IT'S LIBIDINOUS. The music is straining against the collar around its neck, yearning to break loose and roam free.

For more information on DOGS OF WINTER check out www.myspace.com/dogsofwinter and www.dogsofwinter.com.