Massachusetts Rockers D-Tension & The Secrets Release Self-Titled Debut Album

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BOSTON, Oct. 12, 2026 /PRNewswire/ -- D-Tension & The Secrets have released their self-titled debut album, D-Tension & The Secrets, a nine-song set led by the single "Hate To See You Go." The record spans rock, alt rock, punk and power pop without settling into any one lane.

The band exists because of an unlikely pivot. D-Tension built his name internationally as a hip hop artist, touring with the late DMX, Ja Rule and the late Biz Markie, before a pandemic lockdown and a Fender Jazzmaster won in what he calls a shady Instagram contest pushed him toward rock and roll.

A producer known for work with Slug of Atmosphere, Blackalicious and Mr. Lif, D-Tension had grown up surrounded by rock records despite never playing guitar. YouTube lessons closed the gap quickly. By Christmas 2020 he was recording his own material, released the following year as Secret Rock & Roll Project, featuring Craig Silverman of Agnostic Front, Frank Pino of the Andrew W.K. band and Brian Viglione of Dresden Dolls and Violent Femmes. "Lockdown had its advantages," he says. "All I did that year was play guitar."

D-Tension, who is on the autism spectrum, has long described music as his superpower, carrying that confidence into his shift from rapper to rocker.

Once the world reopened, The Secrets formed in his hometown of Lowell, Massachusetts. A second album, Tales From The Pub, followed on Red on Red Records as the band entered the Rock & Roll Rumble, proving this was never a rap-rock project but one built on melody, hooks, harmony and storytelling.

Their new album is the first recorded fully as a band. Opener "Hate To See You Go" channels Boston's Irish punk tradition with echoes of Dropkick Murphys, Rancid and Flogging Molly, while "Banned," "Crime Spree" and "Violated" move through psychobilly, dark humour and hard rock. D-Tension calls it "your favorite hour of rock and roll radio."

"Hate To See You Go" honours friends D-Tension lost, including soul singer Lesley, who died during the pandemic before they could make a record together, as well as a beloved cat and a childhood friend. Rather than write an elegy, he turned grief into an Irish punk drinking song celebrating lives well lived.

D-Tension was inducted into the New England Music Hall of Fame in 2024 and has won two Boston Music Awards, a New England Music Award and a New England Urban Music Award.

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