To Hell And Back
Des Rocs
To Hell and Back is the third studio album by Des Rocs — the project of New York City rock songwriter and performer Danny Rocco — released on June 12, 2026 via Sumerian Records. Produced by Joe Chiccarelli (The White Stripes, The Strokes) and recorded live in New York City alongside longtime bandmates William Tully and Eric Mendelsohn, the album was built to capture the raw immediacy of the band playing together in a room rather than assembled piece by piece. As Rocco put it: "We recorded the entire album live in the heart of New York City. You can hear the room, the chaos, the humanity in it." The resulting eleven-track collection follows 2023's Dream Machine and represents Des Rocs' most ambitious and fully realized work yet, merging glam-rock maximalism, downtown garage grit, cinematic balladry, and arena-scale hooks into a single cohesive statement.
Thematically, the album charts a journey through struggle, romantic adversity, and perseverance — from darkness toward hard-won resilience — with each track functioning as another step in that arc, culminating in the closing track "The Way." The album opens with the bombastic "When the Love is Gone," builds through sweeping mid-album centerpieces like "The Riders of Red Hook (Legends Never Die)," and includes "This Land," which was featured in the video game Borderlands 4. Influences ranging from Queen and the Who to Billy Idol and Muse are woven throughout, but the sound remains grounded in the New York City rock tradition that Rocco has been honing since his 2018 debut EP Let the Vultures In. The album was accompanied by UK and European tour dates in the fall of 2026.
To Hell and Back is the third studio album by Des Rocs — the project of New York City rock songwriter and performer Danny Rocco — released on June 12, 2026 via Sumerian Records. Produced by Joe Chiccarelli (The White Stripes, The Strokes) and recorded live in New York City alongside longtime bandmates William Tully and Eric Mendelsohn, the album was built to capture the raw immediacy of the band playing together in a room rather than assembled piece by piece. As Rocco put it: "We recorded the entire album live in the heart of New York City. You can hear the room, the chaos, the humanity in it." The resulting eleven-track collection follows 2023's Dream Machine and represents Des Rocs' most ambitious and fully realized work yet, merging glam-rock maximalism, downtown garage grit, cinematic balladry, and arena-scale hooks into a single cohesive statement.
Thematically, the album charts a journey through struggle, romantic adversity, and perseverance — from darkness toward hard-won resilience — with each track functioning as another step in that arc, culminating in the closing track "The Way." The album opens with the bombastic "When the Love is Gone," builds through sweeping mid-album centerpieces like "The Riders of Red Hook (Legends Never Die)," and includes "This Land," which was featured in the video game Borderlands 4. Influences ranging from Queen and the Who to Billy Idol and Muse are woven throughout, but the sound remains grounded in the New York City rock tradition that Rocco has been honing since his 2018 debut EP Let the Vultures In. The album was accompanied by UK and European tour dates in the fall of 2026.
To Hell And Back
Des Rocs
To Hell and Back is the third studio album by Des Rocs — the project of New York City rock songwriter and performer Danny Rocco — released on June 12, 2026 via Sumerian Records. Produced by Joe Chiccarelli (The White Stripes, The Strokes) and recorded live in New York City alongside longtime bandmates William Tully and Eric Mendelsohn, the album was built to capture the raw immediacy of the band playing together in a room rather than assembled piece by piece. As Rocco put it: "We recorded the entire album live in the heart of New York City. You can hear the room, the chaos, the humanity in it." The resulting eleven-track collection follows 2023's Dream Machine and represents Des Rocs' most ambitious and fully realized work yet, merging glam-rock maximalism, downtown garage grit, cinematic balladry, and arena-scale hooks into a single cohesive statement.
Thematically, the album charts a journey through struggle, romantic adversity, and perseverance — from darkness toward hard-won resilience — with each track functioning as another step in that arc, culminating in the closing track "The Way." The album opens with the bombastic "When the Love is Gone," builds through sweeping mid-album centerpieces like "The Riders of Red Hook (Legends Never Die)," and includes "This Land," which was featured in the video game Borderlands 4. Influences ranging from Queen and the Who to Billy Idol and Muse are woven throughout, but the sound remains grounded in the New York City rock tradition that Rocco has been honing since his 2018 debut EP Let the Vultures In. The album was accompanied by UK and European tour dates in the fall of 2026.
To Hell and Back is the third studio album by Des Rocs — the project of New York City rock songwriter and performer Danny Rocco — released on June 12, 2026 via Sumerian Records. Produced by Joe Chiccarelli (The White Stripes, The Strokes) and recorded live in New York City alongside longtime bandmates William Tully and Eric Mendelsohn, the album was built to capture the raw immediacy of the band playing together in a room rather than assembled piece by piece. As Rocco put it: "We recorded the entire album live in the heart of New York City. You can hear the room, the chaos, the humanity in it." The resulting eleven-track collection follows 2023's Dream Machine and represents Des Rocs' most ambitious and fully realized work yet, merging glam-rock maximalism, downtown garage grit, cinematic balladry, and arena-scale hooks into a single cohesive statement.
Thematically, the album charts a journey through struggle, romantic adversity, and perseverance — from darkness toward hard-won resilience — with each track functioning as another step in that arc, culminating in the closing track "The Way." The album opens with the bombastic "When the Love is Gone," builds through sweeping mid-album centerpieces like "The Riders of Red Hook (Legends Never Die)," and includes "This Land," which was featured in the video game Borderlands 4. Influences ranging from Queen and the Who to Billy Idol and Muse are woven throughout, but the sound remains grounded in the New York City rock tradition that Rocco has been honing since his 2018 debut EP Let the Vultures In. The album was accompanied by UK and European tour dates in the fall of 2026.