Ed Rashed

Ed Rashed leads a band that shares his name. Their debut album 'The Echoes of Silence' came out in 2012. A song like 'Wrong Side of the Door' from a couple years later has that kind of haunted, inward-looking quality people mention when they talk about his music.

He works with guitarist Mark Ryan, bassist Adam Jones, and drummer Alex Smith. They put out a few more records after that first one, including 'The Silent Hour' in 2015 and 'The Weight of the World' in 2018. You can hear some of that same mood in other songs like 'A Taste of Your Love' or 'Bone Cold Night'.

There's not much flashy story here. It's mostly a band that makes music with a certain quiet intensity, the kind that gets called alternative rock. They've kept at it for a while without much fanfare about where they're from or any dramatic turns.