YEAR LONG DISASTER announce new album and Paaspop performance
Year Long Disaster’s 2007 self-titled debut landed them tours with The Cult, Velvet Revolver, and the Foo Fighters, as well as praise from critics and fans alike, including Motörhead’s Lemmy Kilmister (with whom they also toured) who told Kerrang! Magazine that “Year Long Disaster plays rock and roll music like rock and roll should be played.” At the close of 2008, with two years of international touring behind them, the band secured Grammy Award-winning producer Nick Raskulinecz (Foo Fighters, Alice in Chains, Rush, Marilyn Manson) to produce their forthcoming album, “Black Magic: All Mysteries Revealed.”
Based loosely on the early 20th century Russian novel, “Master and Margarita,” by Mikhail Bulgakov, “Black Magic” is a landscape peopled by figures—whores, despots, lovers, traitors and dreamers—liberated from the myth that innocence is exalted but haunted by the perpetual threat of spiritual disappointment and emotional disaster that experience has taught them to expect. The album is fueled by howling vocals and blistering guitars that flirt with the limits of control, only to be disciplined back into order by unexpected melodies and the band’s famously tight bass and drum section.
Of course the band’s pedigree makes their skill set less of a surprise. Guitarist and vocalist Daniel Davies is the son of Kinks’ Dave Davies, bassist Rich Mullins plays in West Virginia instrumental hard-rock trio, Karma To Burn, and drummer Brad Hargreaves moonlights in eight-time platinum-selling group Third Eye Blind. Since their formation in late 2004, Year Long Disaster have channeled the bastardized muddy blues stomps of their forefathers and overlaid them with their own flash and drama.
“Black Magic: All Mysteries Revealed” is set for release on March 8, 2010 via Volcom Entertainment. The first single, “Show Me Your Teeth” is available now as a free download through www.yearlongdisaster.com
Catch Year Long Disaster performing at April 3rd at Paaspop in Schijndel, the Netherlands.
“Black Magic: All Mysteries Revealed” track list:
Black Magic
Show Me Your Teeth
Love Like Blood
Stranger In My Room
Sparrow Hill
Seven Of Swords
She Told Us All
Venus At The Crossroads
Major Arcana
Foggy Bottom
Cyclone
