THIRD FLAME LISTEN

RUSTBELT SOUL

THIRD
FLAME

Pressure doesn’t reveal who you were. It creates who you become.
ENTER THE FIRE DISCOVER THE SOUND

A SON-RYZE RECORDS ARTIST

What Pressure Made album cover: three compressed steel forms in a dark chamber
OFFICIAL ALBUM ARTWORK
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THE DEBUT ALBUM

WHAT PRESSURE MADE

COMING SOON

Ten songs. One shared pressure. Three ways of surviving what came next.

  1. 01Three Ways to Burn
  2. 02Load-Bearing
  3. 03Hairline Cracks
  4. 04Borrowed Oxygen
  5. 05Mercy Is Expensive
  6. 06Pressure Language
  7. 07When Steel Goes Cold
  8. 08No Innocent Side
  9. 09Built From What Remained
  10. 10What Pressure Made
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SELECTED SONGS

THE SOUND OF PRESSURE

01SINGLE ARTWORK FORTHCOMING

WPM / 01

Three Ways to Burn

Three lives meet the same heat—and leave it changed in different ways.

02SINGLE ARTWORK FORTHCOMING

WPM / 02

Load-Bearing

A portrait of the person everyone leans on, long after the structure begins to give.

03SINGLE ARTWORK FORTHCOMING

WPM / 03

Hairline Cracks

The quiet evidence of a fracture before anyone is willing to name it.

04SINGLE ARTWORK FORTHCOMING

WPM / 04

Borrowed Oxygen

Desire and dependence suspended inside a dark, slow-burning pulse.

05SINGLE ARTWORK FORTHCOMING

WPM / 05

Mercy Is Expensive

An unflinching account of what forgiveness costs when the debt is real.

06SINGLE ARTWORK FORTHCOMING

WPM / 06

Pressure Language

Metal, drums and layered voices translate everything that could not be said plainly.

A NEW SONIC LANGUAGE

WHAT IS
RUSTBELT SOUL?

Rustbelt Soul is emotion forged under pressure—smoky R&B vocals, melodic hip-hop rhythm, industrial percussion, live drums, blues guitar and cinematic scale. It carries Cleveland in its bones without becoming a regional novelty. The steel is not decoration. It is what the music survived.

01Smoky alto vocals02Deep 808s03Live drums04Industrial percussion05Dark piano + organ06Restrained blues guitar07Cinematic strings08Layered harmonies
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THE ORIGIN

THREE PERSPECTIVES. ONE PRESSURE.

Born from Cleveland’s tension between industry and reinvention, THIRD FLAME is a three-member recording group built around one idea: pressure changes everyone differently. Nia Rowe, Elias Creed and Malik Forge represent the wound, the temptation and the resolve—three perspectives colliding inside a sound they call Rustbelt Soul.

THE WOUNDTHE TEMPTATIONTHE RESOLVE
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THE THREE

MEMBERS

01OFFICIAL PORTRAIT FORTHCOMING

The Wound

Nia Rowe

Lead vocalist
The voice of memory, consequence and uncomfortable truth.
02OFFICIAL PORTRAIT FORTHCOMING

The Temptation

Elias Creed

Guitar · Keys · Musical direction
The sound of desire, rationalization and the choices that pull us backward.
03OFFICIAL PORTRAIT FORTHCOMING

The Resolve

Malik Forge

Production · Drums · Beat architecture
The rhythm of discipline, survival and rebuilding after the pressure breaks.
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THE ARCHIVE

VISUALS

01OFFICIAL PHOTOGRAPHY · FORTHCOMING
02ALBUM ARTWORK · FORTHCOMING
03MUSIC VIDEOS · FORTHCOMING
04LYRIC VIDEOS · FORTHCOMING
05BEHIND THE SCENES · FORTHCOMING

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