Hate On the Rocks – The newest single by music phenomenon and Bram Stoker Award winning author, Nzondi!

I live the way I wanna live

You live the way you wanna live

I live beyond the past 

And you’re mad at the world that we didn’t last

Well I heard you talkin’ to yourself

Get a little taste, you need a lot of help

You said when mother goes, half your hell goes, well I suppose

I hate, I hate

Where you’re going, yeah-yeah

Your pain, my pain, your pain, my pain

It just keeps on flowing

When you drink your river on the rocks

You said I was a wannabe 

Well uh, I am the way I wanna be

Your hand, it rocks the cradle 

Rivers runs deep down to your navel

Well I heard you talkin’ to yourself

Get a little taste, you need a lot of help

You said when mother goes, half your hell goes, well I suppose

I hate, I hate

Where you’re going, yeah-yeah

Your pain, my pain, your pain, my pain

It just keeps on flowing

When you drink your river on the rocks

Nzondi’s First Single –

The rock singer, songwriter and Bram Stoker Award-winning author wrote, performed and produced the alternative rock song “Teenage RockStarr”. It features Dave Moreno (Puddle of Mudd) on drums. Both the radio and the clean versions feature Dave as the drummer but the clean version also features Hip Hop icon/actor, Fredro Starr from the legendary group Onyx. 

Influenced by mostly Seattle-bred bands like Alice In Chains, Soundgarden, Jimi Hendrix Experience and Nirvana, Nzondi’s “Teenage RockStarr” carries the energy of a Red Hot Chili Peppers-charged track. 

Nzondi the Author and Bram Stoker Winner

Bram Stoker Winner for Best Young Adult Novel

In the Metaverse, No One Knows the Dead Better than Feeni Xo – The story is set on alternate Earth and follows the life of Feeni Xo, a teenage enhuman girl who wants to become an investigative forensic coroner. Similar to vampires, “enhumans” need human blood for sustenance but thanks to the creation of synthetic blood, don’t need to break enhuman laws by harming humans for survival.

One night, coming home from a party, Feeni seems to kill a young girl. Her brother, who is a police officer, helps her cover it up, but when Feeni retreats to the metaverse to play a virtual reality game that uses data from police cold cases, she discovers the dead girl in real life is actually the younger sister of her neighbor, who also happens to be a police officer.

Overwhelmed with guilt, she’s forced to help her neighbor investigate her sister’s death in a case that becomes ominous when they play the House of Oware game that’s been reprogrammed to kill every participant.

The Scream Teens are hired to raise the dead as the necro-tainment for a zombie cruise, and the eighteen-year-old animator, Cozy Coleman, is bitten by a shapeshifting she-wolf. To Cozy’s surprise, she survives and with the aid of her friends, helps the government stop a human-extinction virus from spreading. Unfortunately, Cozy uncovers a secret so haunting, that her death is only the beginning of her problems.

Influenced by mostly Seattle-bred bands like Alice In Chains, Soundgarden and the Jimi Hendrix Experience, as well as the bands Stone Temple Pilots and the Distillers, Nzondi’s songs are a blend of hard rock, alternative, grunge, punk and funk. His background as a Bram Stoker Award-winning horror author instils lyrics that are terrifying, thought-provoking and non-apologetic. Born in New York, Nzondi currently resides in Los Angeles, California.

To request additional review copies or an interview with Nzondi, please contact Mickey Mikkelson at Creative Edge Publicity: mickey.creativeedge@gmail.com | 403.464.6925.