Hard Rockers Dead Levee Deliver in Spades on Arena Ready Single “Love & Misery”
Dead Levee is a four-piece, old-school, no-nonsense rock band consisting of members Tayler “Izzy” Morgan, Ray Klapatiuk, Rylan “Buck” Dusyk, and Preston Laschuk. Their aggressive, organic, and attitude-driven style harkens back to the high-energy rock of the late 60s with the attitude of 90s rock.
Playing alongside established bands such as Chilliwack, The Trews, Monster Truck, The Lazys, The Wild!, and Econoline Crush and touring coast to coast for hundreds of shows, they are no strangers to the stage. Dead Levee has worked with renowned producers Garth Richardson (Rage Against The Machine, Nickelback, Alice Cooper), Kevin Dietz (The Glorious Sons, JJ Wilde), and Noah Mintz (Arkelles, Billy Talent, Matt Mays, Death From Above 1979).
On their latest offering, “Love & Misery,” the group delivers a polished arena rock sing-along wall of sound that chugs with howling swirling guitars in an ode to a toxic but passionate relationship.
“In the case of this song, it’s about a relationship where the sex outweighs the obvious toxicity. Even though the peers around you can all see how bad it is, they don’t know how good it gets.”
Listen to “Love & Misery” below and learn more about Dead Levee via our Five Questions With segment.
Care to introduce yourself to our readers?
We are Dead Levee, a rock band from Regina, SK.
Tell us a bit about your most recent release.
Our most recent release is called “Love & Misery”. A high-energy rock song about a highly toxic, highly intimate relationship. With sound and lyric relations to The Cult, Buckcherry, and Aerosmith.
Where do you tend to pull inspiration from when writing?
Usually, my writing inspiration comes from personal experience, or hearing/reading a great hook in everyday situations. With that being said, our other single off of this upcoming record “Shout” was more written around the riff itself.
Do you have any upcoming shows you’d like to tell us about?
We just got back from a release tour covering Ontario to Alberta, which included performances at NXNE and CMW, and have one more release show for “Love & Misery” in Winnipeg on November 11th at Osborne Taphouse. As well as a few shows around the prairies. Most of the rest of the year will be songwriting and working on bringing a bigger, better rock show to the stage in 2024.
What’s your goal for 2024?
The goal for the rest of 2023 is to prepare for 2024. We have accomplished a lot in the past year and have no intentions of slowing that momentum down at all.