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BIGELF - Myspace
Now its time for the world to pay the piper at the gates of dawn... the reign of Bigelf is upon us infectious melodies and chilling harmonies that collide with an otherworldly embrace of the psychedelic.

This epic album is the soundtrack for new World disorder a pop-cultural phenomenon shaped by the muse of Black Sabbath, Pink Floyd, Queen and The Beatles.

Bigelf's metallic circus-influenced music is a quilt of T.Rex, Black Sabbath, Deep Purple, The Beatles, and Pink Floyd. It's essentially a six-pack of kick ass. But the foursome, with their stovepipe hats and turn-of-the-century, Oliver Twist waistcoats, aren't exactly a novelty outfit. There's some serious musical muscle on their bones. Tracks off Cheat the Gallows like "Hydra" and "Gravest Show On Earth" are mammoth slabs of ominous guitars and sloth-like rhythms, everything united by Beatlesque harmonies. Other tracks, such as "Superstar" and "Blackball," play with nancy-boy pomp and glitter rock, the kind of stuff that evidently has made Alicia Keys, of all people, a fan. So for every head-banging moment there is a danceable riff right around the corner. The Angelenos' previous three records (including the smash Hex) somewhat sloppily crossed Rue Morgue imagery with men-in-tights metal. With Cheat the Gallows, the band has tightened up and wholly adopted the belief that hard rock can make you do three things: bang your head, strum the air, and shake your ass. And, hell, if you can jam some wheezing, Jon Lord-ish organs in there, go for it. The swirling, psychedelic, Barnum & Bailey zounds and Floydian romps into interstellar overdrive hover over the album like L.A. smog, giving every track a hazy and doped - but intoxicating - feeling. [Order it here]

NEW DEVICE - Myspace
New Device are an English hard rock band from London, UK. Influenced by the stadium rock giants of the late 80's and early 90's such as Guns N' Roses, Aerosmith and Metallica, New Device manage to achieve a sound where so many others fail; authentic, solid, blues based hard rock, written by real life long fans of rock music.

New Device was formed in London, England, in October 2007. Each member had previously met or played in bands with one another enjoying success releasing music internationally and touring with the likes of Bullet For My Valentine, Funeral For A Friend and My Chemical Romance, and although New Device is in its infancy, they have without a doubt earned their stripes on road.

The band almost immediately entered the studio on October 2007 to record four tracks with Romesh Dodangoda (Funeral for a Friend, Bullet For My Valentine) at Long Wave Studio, Cardiff. Over the course of a week they produced future hits - On Fire, Never Say Never, Heaven Knows and Takin' Over. These recordings quickly gained interest and they were swiftly signed to Powerage Records.

They began the recording of their debut album in June 2008, at Outhouse Studios, Reading, UK, with long term friend Ryan Richards of Funeral for a Friend behind the drum kit. Mixing duties were handled stateside in Los Angeles by Cameron Webb (Motohead, Tenacious D, Godsmack).

With high hopes and an album full of songs that have the potential to pioneer a new rock movement, the band is now ready to start taking care of business and hit road, bringing a stadium like presence to wherever they play. [Order it here]

ELECTRIC MARY - Myspace

2003 was a watershed year for singer/songwriter Rusty of Electric Mary. Musical tastes all over the world were changing and a fresh approach was what Rusty needed, so along with guitarist Irwin Thomas he headed to New York. The tourist thing lasted two days - the Dakota building, Central Park and everywhere in between. While sitting on a bench at the John Lennon memorial listening to really bad buskers singing the songs of the Beatles, Rusty realized he was chasing a sound with no heart and no soul. It was time to revisit where his musical life began. The next few days were spent walking the streets of New York, feeling, and tasting another way of life.

A chance meeting at a gig led to Rusty and Irwin hooking up with Mary Campbell, the legendary studio manager of Electric Lady Studio. An invitation was extended to visit the world famous studio, once owned by Jimi Hendrix. He rang the doorbell to a building that had witnessed some of the greatest music and musicians of the last 20 years. The history lesson was loud and clear and down the steps and through a hallway he walked right into the middle of rock and roll's very lifeblood.

Mary told many stories of artists & bands such as AC/DC, Led Zeppelin, Guns'n'Roses, the Kinks, David Bowie, Stevie Wonder and Bad Company. Rusty was in awe and he felt humbled to be hanging out with such illustrious company. Standing in the live room of studio A and feeling a great sense of joy, Mary handed Rusty a business card, “that's me at the bottom of the card”, electric mary..."

Right there and then Electric Mary was born. On the flight home Rusty decided to go back to what made him want to play music in the first place. The kind of music he grew up listening to and that had shaped his life.

He knew the lineup he wanted with Venom on drums, Irwin, & Pete on guitars and Neilo on bass.

He knew the sound he was after and he knew these guys could deliver. The sound of Electric Mary!

VIKING SKULL - Myspace
Viking Skull was formed in 2003 by vocalist Roddy Stone, guitarists Frank Regan and Darren Smith, bassist Waldie and drummer Gordon Morrison. They drew deeply from Black Sabbath for inspiration then added a little AC/DC, WASP, Motorhead, The Who, Kiss and Thin Lizzy for good measure. This, mixed with whiskey drenched vocals; they forged an uncompromising brand of classic metal of their own. They started life gigging/rehearsing at local jam nights in Corby, Kettering and Rothwell, simply because it was free and each song played earned you a free pint. Soon these jam nights started to get packed out and people began asking for CDs, so they recorded and mixed their six track demo, Chapter One, for £500 in just two days and released it in 2004 under the Grand Union Label.

Chapter One received rave reviews here in the UK, one of them being the only band still to this date to have scored an impressive 11/10 in a Metal Hammer album review. This quickly earned them support slots on tours with Dio, Him, Sum 41, Wednesday 13, Alice Cooper, Brides of Destruction and a slot at Download 2004. However due to a heavy touring schedule and with no label support, cracks started to appear in the unit. The departure of Frank midway through a Wednesday 13 tour meant Roddy had to quickly switch to both guitar and vocals.

The vibe and energy in the band remained untouched and people wanted more, so in November 2005, they released the full-length album Born in Hell, but this time the good reviews stretched all over the globe. After more heavy touring with cKy, Clutch, Hayseed Dixie, Europe another slot at Download 2006 and many own headline tours, it all came to a head one night in Köln on the European cKy tour in Aug 2006. The mixture of Jess Margera supplying them with absinthe and a lack of sleep (3 weeks sleeping in a transit van with no cash), the band nearly killed each other…. Viking Skull was no more.

Gordon continued with his other band Raging Speedhorn, Darren gave up bands for good to get a proper job and learn to play the banjo, Waldie just listened to Whitesnake and Roddy never left his flat, living on a diet of beans on toast and continued to write songs.

A few months passed and once Jess Margera heard the news of the split, he called up Roddy to find out what happened and was gutted. Jess then offered his services on drums to keep the band going. Roddy managed to get Waldie back on board, got an old friend Jules Cooper to lend a hand in playing some lead guitar and they travelled to Philadelphia to record their 3rd album Chapter Two. This album also had guest appearances from Reverend Jim of Fireball Ministry, the Brandywine Eel of Gnarkill, Unkle Matt and the Shitbirdz and Chad I Ginsburg of cKy. It was released in 2007 on Filthy Note Digital with a limited CD release in the USA. They also shot the video for Blackened Sunrise, directed by long time supporter of the band, Bam Margera.

Viking Skull are at their very best right now, the song writing has matured and the legendary live shows just keep on getting better and better. The new album Doom Gloom, Heartache and Whiskey will be released on Powerage in Nov 08. [Order it here]

LETHARGY - Myspace
Much ado has been made about the latest breed of hard rock heroes, from whiz kid emo-rockers to scary-masked nu-metal madmen, both of whom, in their own canny way, spit out speedy, lo-fi riffs whilst touting angry bad-boy rhetoric. Lethargy are you’ll be pleased to know, cut from a refreshingly different cloth.

This is a band that merges two highly valuable commodities; that’s riff driven hard rock and seriously impressive, some might say spellbinding, musicality. Sure, it’s been a long time coming but, thank god, they’ve finally arrived…and in some style too.

Born and raised in South Wales, Neath to be precise, this four-man crew has hauled themselves up by their boot straps with one specific and infinitely noble goal in mind – to become one of the best groups of their generation. It’s a tall order, and one they might wish to reconsider at some point, but ambition and drive is something these guys have in spades. That’s not to say Lethargy are boxing above their weight - clearly they have it in ‘em to lay waste to the competition – but they want to win by pushing their own personal musical and personal boundaries to the max. And that’s a very good thing indeed.

It’s no secret that Lethargy are influenced by both the old and the new, coming across as a particularly impressive combination of current hard-metal masters and edgy neo-progressive mavericks. A brief fifteen minute chat with them will reveal influences as far ranging as Pink Floyd, Led Zeppelin, Manic Street Preachers, Dream Theater, Radiohead and Alice In Chains, to name but a few of the diverse sounds these guys are into.

Their songs seem to occupy wildly opposite extremes; long drawn out raging musical battles or short, sharp shocks to the system. They all, however, have one common denominator – a stunning ability to deliver a message. The emphasis, lyrically, is always on radical, some might say fundamental, life issues – everything from spooky mind control to apocalyptic war mongering. Out of it all though, there is a sense of revelation, a feeling that these guys aren’t just cribbing from the Introduction To Contemporary Sociology GCSE primer, but actually writing about real life lessons learnt at Neath’s University Of Hard Knocks; the kind of stuff absorbed whilst growing up in a once thriving town whose heart and soul was systematically dismantled by Margaret Thatcher back in the eighties. An all too familiar sight; streets lined with boarded-up shops, kids kicking around tin cans and too many empty old-school pubs. Meanwhile, a short bike ride away, the countryside is stunningly serene and beautiful; a dilemma directly reflected in their music.

So, this band knows how to rock…Hard, but still produce music that is crafted and thoughtful, sun-kissed with extraordinary arrangements and breathtaking musical dog-fights. This is a band operating ahead of their years - all members, incidentally, are in the late teens/early twenties. So it was no wonder that esteemed rock journalist Geoff Barton over at Classic Rock Magazine nearly had a coronary the first time he heard the band’s self-financed debut album ‘Road Out Of Nowhere’, issued in 2005, a record that went on to gain a well-earned place as one of the magazine’s top twenty albums of the year.

Encouraged by this, and similar praise elsewhere, the band spent the best part of two years systematically deconstructing and then reconstructing their sound before A&R man Derek Oliver introduced them to noted American producer David Prater who he hired to work on Dream Theater’s land mark prog-metal opus ‘Images And Words’. Prater was so struck by the band’s ability to breathe new life into an old formula that he agreed, without any hesitation, to fly to Wales and record the band at Mwnci (pronounced mun-key) studios, a residential operation, lying in the beautiful hills and valleys of Pembrokeshire. Tracked in four weeks and later mixed by Prater in South America, the album, titled ‘Purification’, is now revved up and ready to go.

Finding a happy and welcoming home with Powerage Records, the newly-formed Classic Rock/Plastic Head backed label, the album will be released amidst a fan-fare of approval, from both long-time fans and new converts alike as it happens to be one of the best records by a young British band for many moons.

Oh, and don’t forget to look out for an extensive live schedule, including an already confirmed appearance at this years much anticipated Hard Rock Hell Festival. Lethargy, as you might have guessed, are far from a stay at home bedroom creation; they are super keen to take their message to the streets, and that’s an experience that you certainly would not want to miss. Primed and ready, they promise to take no prisoners. [Order it here]

ENDEEVERAFTER - Myspace
In the annals of rock music, you’d be hard-pressed to find a band that’s been championed by both Pete Wentz and Bret Michaels. You’d also be hard-pressed, at least nowadays, to find a rock band that possesses a guitar hero for the next generation, a sexual swagger and an actual sense of fun. EndeverafteR is that band.

On Kiss or Kill, EndeverafteR’s debut album, there are big Big BIG choruses, thrashy drums, a little bit of punk, a lot of cocksure attitude and brilliant guitar work. The band is creating the anthems for a new generation: “I Wanna Be Your Man” and “Baby, Baby, Baby” may very well soon be heard across strip clubs worldwide.

This isn’t some kind of sex, drugs, rock n’ roll gimmick. Lead singer/songwriter/guitarist Michael Grant writes what he feels, be it a huge power ballad (“Next Best Thing”) or a savage Crue-inspired (“Tip of My Tongue”). “The core of this band is heart,” says Grant.

An EndeverafteR live show is quite a spectacle. You’ll notice things you haven’t seen at a rock show in a long time: Presence, Majesty, Swagger, Sex Appeal, Mystery, Theatrics, and Raw Power. While there’s no pyro technics yet, it’s on its way.

EndeverafteR has already captured the public’s eye; a behind-the-scenes look at the making of the “Baby Baby Baby” video was 1 on YouTube with nearly 500,000 views in one day with now millions of views to date. The Band is on the road right now touring in support of their stunning debut album "Kiss or Kill". [Order it here]

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