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THE
BONES are back in the ring with another swing!
Is it really already five years
ago since Sweden’s
finest Punk’n’Roll outfit took over
our stereos with „Burnout Boulevard“?
Apparently it is, but the good news is: the wait
is over. On „Monkeys With Guns“, the
fifth studio album in their enduring career, THE
BONES are back blazing with 15 (17 on the Limited
Edition and LP) blistering, hard hitting new tracks
of perfect Punk’n’Roll marriage material
made in hell.
In our case, hell is a lovely little
harbour-town called Karlskrona in the Southwest
of Sweden. That’s
where it all started out for THE BONES back in
1993. Back then singer/guitarist Beef Bonanza,
along with his brother Spooky Fred and bassist
Dollar Ace, were working on their first demos,
which already included soon-to-be-classics like ‘I
Met Elvis At The Nudybar’ and ‘Monsters
Prefer Blondes’. When singer/guitar-slinger
Marcus „Boner“ Petersson entered the
picture in 1996 things began to speed up.
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a mutual love for high energetic punk and rock music
in the vein of The Ramones and Motörhead and
50s and 60s rock’n’roll, THE BONES were
always influenced by the melodic qualities of bands
such as The Bay City Rollers and The Barracudas as
well. After self-releasing „The Horrorway EP“ in
1997 german punk rock label I Used To Fuck People
Like You In Prison Records caught an eye on the ear-catching
qualities of THE BONES. Following two more EPs, „Rock
n' Roll Race“ and „Six Feet Down, Two
Fingers Up“ the swedes finally released their
adeptly titled debut album „Screwed, Blued & Tattooed“ in
2000 to critical acclaim.
The
sonic equivalent of Elvis, Johnny Cash, The Ramones
and Social Distortion jammed in the backseat of
a cadillac watching „Grease“ at a seedy
Drive In, took Punks, Rockers and even Metalheads
by storm. The next album „Bigger Than Jesus“ followed
the success of its predecessor and THE BONES reputation
as a a killer live act began to grow instantly.
Sharing the stage with bands and friends like Motörhead,
Cockney Rejects or Die Toten Hosen, THE BONES had
made it from the local swedish youth clubs to the
top of europe’s club- and festvial circuit,
building up a strong following of like-minded rock’n’roll
party animals. By 2004 Dollar Ace had left the
band and long-time friend Andi Nero premiered his
bass-playing skills for the first time on the follow-up
album „Straight Flush Ghetto“. 2007
saw the release of „Burnout Boulevard“,
yet another album that showed no sign of THE BONES
having lost just an ounce of their gritty integrity
and energy. After more than seven years of travelling,
playing and recording THE BONES decided to take
things a bit slower. With their first live-DVD „Berlin
Burnout“, recorded at Berlin’s famous
punk venue SO36 in 2008, the band still managed
to throw their fans the figurative bone, before
returning to the studio.
It’s 2012 and the wait is over. „Monkeys
With Guns“ marks THE BONES’ return to
form in a new decade. Having teamed up with producer
Magnus „Mankan“ Sedenberg, the guy that
can be held sonically responsible for his great work
on the first three Bones’ albums, the band
is now ready to rock and roll again.
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„Well,
it was great hitting the studio with producer Mankan
again...We had some expectations about the sound
and we got it!“, says Beef, „We puzzled
our schedules together best way possible and BANG!!!
The new songs are still in the shape of THE BONES
which means dirty punk rock´n´roll
but still sing-a-long. And now we´re looking
forward to the release of the album and to meet
the fans and supporters.“
From
the classic tongue-in-cheek track ‘Bones
City Rollers’ to the anthemic, Hanoi Rocks-influenced ‘Concrete
Cowboys’ to the high roller Motörhead-anthics
of ‘State Of Rock’n’Roll’;
from ‘Cemetry Sue’ covering the twangy
surf turf to the Ramones-nod of ‘Hooligan
Bop’ and the pelvis-shaking Presley-hommage
of ‘This Hound Dog Rocks’ - THE BONES
deliver nothing less but the essence of their game:
Punk’n’Roll with attitude and hooks
as big as King Kong with an Uzi at the top of
the Empire State.
So grab yourself another beer, put your favourite
rockabella on your lap and crank up the stereo
with „Monkeys With Guns“. It’s
time to rock. And roll THE BONES....
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