MadamAdam is an American rock band from Charleston, South Carolina, consisting of lead vocalist and guitarist Scott Gould, bassist Kenny Varner, lead guitarist and vocalist Alan Price, and drummer Matthew Reindollar. MadamAdam signed a record deal with Roadrunner Records in late 2009 and began recording their self-titled debut album with producer Skidd Mills (Sick Puppies, Saving Abel) at the Sound Kitchen in Nashville, TN. That record released on April 5th, 2011 and it would produce the band's first radio single, "Sex Ain't Love", an upbeat and hard-rocking song about the restless sexual tensions of today's young adults.
Over two week-long sessions in Nashville, TN, one in November 2013 and the other in February of 2014 (the latter being funded with support from Indiegogo contributions), MadamAdam had brought to life the story of a world wrought in class warfare and civil disobedience - where those with less have to fend for themselves at the outskirts of society and with nowhere else to go but underground. Greed and money rule politics. Resentment and anger fuel an inevitable clash between right and wrong, good and evil. When the album had been fully realized and with the recording finished, the band knew there was only one logical title, 'Rite of Passage'. The journey the band has gone through has been nothing short of that, and the record they made is proof that the story doesn't end there.