TORONTO, CANADA (March 14, 2025) — BraveWords Records is excited to release the new Jack Starr music video for the lead track “Rise Up”. The single is taken from his new solo album,”Out of the Darkness Part II” which will be released April 25, 2025.
Watch the video: Jack Starr “Rise Up” Official Music Video from Out Of The Darkness Part II on BraveWords Records
Listen to “Rise Up” from the album Out of the Darkness Part II on streaming services: https://smarturl.it/jackstarr
Jack Starr talking about the new single and video, “Rise Up is a song about the centuries old fight for freedom and liberty that has been going on since the dawn of time. There have always been injustice and leaders who rule by fear but at the same time there have been brave men who have stood up and asserted their right to live free.
Rise Up has a universal message of the importance of personal liberty that will appeal to all people of all political persuasions because even though it may be expressed differently at the end of the day people want to live their lives in peace even if it is sometimes requires a struggle to achieve that.”
Early reviews of Jack Starr Out of the Darkness Park II.
Part 2 will blow the world with those catchy rhythms, heavy vocals, and blasting solos. – The Metal Mag
Prepare for total devastation and exploding your stereo, a must-have 100/100. – The Metal Mag
The new Jack Starr song is awesome, and Giles Lavery is a welcome addition to Jack’s songwriting. – The Metal Command Podcast
Track Listing:
Hand Of Doom
Endless Night
Into The Pit
Rise Up
Underneath The Velvet Sky
Tonight We Ride
The Night Has A Thousand Eyes
Sahara Winds
The Greater Good
Soulkeeper
Savage At The Gate (Bonus Track)
The Lesson (Bonus Track)
The Band
Giles Lavery – Vocals (Warlord / Alcatrazz)
Jack Starr – Lead Guitar
Eric Juris – Lead Guitar (Warlord)
Gene Cooper – Bass
Rhino – Drums (Ex Manowar)
Guests Mark Zonder – Drums (Warlord ex Fates Warning)
Jimmy Waldo – Keyboards (Alcatrazz / Warlord / New England)
Produced and mixed by Thomas Mergler
Co-Produced by Giles Lavery & Jack Starr
About Jack Starr:
Starr emerged on the rock and metal scene in 1981, forming, together with Joey Ayvazian, David DeFeis and Joe O’Rielly, the first incarnation of the heavy metal band Virgin Steele. The new band was selected in 1982 by Mike Varney of Shrapnel Records to appear on the label’s compilation album U.S. Metal Volume 2. After only two albums, Virgin Steele of 1981 and Guardians of the Flame of 1982, Starr left Virgin Steele in 1983.
In 1984, Starr started his solo recording career with the album Out of the Darkness, featuring former Riot vocalist Rhett Forrester, members of The Rods and former Rainbow drummer Gary Driscoll. It was released in Europe by Music for Nations and was picked as one of the best albums of the year by the music magazines Kerrang! and Metal Forces.
Starr changed the name of his band to Jack Starr’s Burning Starr and between 1984 and 1989 he produced albums, both solo and with the band. The music of those albums was classic American eighties heavy metal, a style between Poison and Metallica. In 1989 the band dissolved and Starr joined short-lived bands like Strider and Smoke Stack Lightning.
In the following years, Starr once again assembled a group of musicians for a new incarnation of Burning Starr, which performed at the Magic Circle Festival 2008 and released the album Defiance on Manowar’s label Magic Circle Music in 2009. In 2011 they released Land of the Dead with Limb Music. The albums includes ex-Manowar guest musicians Ross the Boss and David Shankle. The band played at the 2013 Keep It True festival and recorded a DVD.
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