Watch/share "Moonchild" video (YouTube) (Metal Injection)
Hear & share Never Decide full album (YouTube)
"A fantastic combination of crazy fun rock that also
happens to be stupid catchy." -- Metal Injection
"BUS is pure rock'n'roll through and through, conjuring
up influences that range from Judas Priest to Deep Purple to Sabbath to prog in
a way that is decidedly old school and familiar, but never straight-up
derivative." -- Revolver Magazine
"The
what-if-the-Beatles-were-also-Primus-but-Primus-were-the-Melvins-and-also-Kyuss-is-there-because-that's-fun
bounce of "I Buried Paul."...(BUS) confidently deliver hooks that are
non-overbearing earworms -- the kinds of songs you don't realize are in your
head until they already are." -- The Obelisk
Athens, Greece quartet Bus The Unknown
Secretary (aka BUS) share the first video from their recently released debut
album on RidingEasy Records today via Metal Injection. The wildly animated clip
for album track "Moonchild" is available to watch and share HERE.
(Direct YouTube.)
Hear and share the entire Never Decide album HERE. (Direct YouTube and Bandcamp.) Revolver Magazine previously shared single "Into
The Night" HERE. And, The Obelisk launched "I Buried Paul" HERE.
From the opening notes of Never Decide, you'll know it's
going to be a wild funhouse ride. It doesn't sound like just four people, it
sounds like a mob of wild-eyed lunatics on the expressway to your skull. And,
you're not gonna know what the band's name means, don't worry about it.
Heavy bands typically don't know how to make music fun.
We're not talking about goofy, novelty rock, which BUS certainly is not. We're
talking clever, spirited and anthemic rock that doesn't get bogged down in
trying to sound menacing. Never Decide is a multifaceted album in the vein of
classic hitters like The Hellacopters, Alice Cooper Band, Judas Priest, Iron
Maiden and Orange Goblin.
"The story of the album expresses the psyche of a
person in a dead end and his life is introduced into obsessive rhythms, more
personal and random," explains vocalist/guitarist Bill Politis.
"There is no happy end here, but the questions remain: Door A or Door B?
Time to change or time to die, Never Decide!"
The album opens as if we're in the studio with the band
listening to playback for the first time. There's a chirping test tone and
someone starts counting in, "one, two, three..." before it suddenly
grinds to a halt. Then suddenly the swirling guitar riff of the pummeling
anthem "You Better Come In, You Better Calm Down" launches everything
into the stratosphere. The guitars march in lockstep as swinging drums keep it
all rolling at furious pace as the vocal chant of the song's title grows into a
massive group chant in harmony. Think Uriah Heep's "Easy Livin'" meets
Kiss' "Rock and Roll All Night" -- here's another big, blazing anthem
for the ages. "I Buried Paul" is the sort of fun, theatrical album
track no one makes anymore, not since the days of the Alice Cooper Band.
"Lucifer" takes things several shades darker, turning in a dramatic
ballad launched by haunting piano chords and led by sinister, sneering vocals
sounding something like Ozzy meets Johnny Rotten slowly building to its epic
conclusion in double time with rinigng harmony guitar leads. "Evil
Eyes" and "Moonchild" return the proceedings to the anthemic,
pop-laced vibe, replete with major-minor chord shifts and vocal/guitar
harmonies galore.
Never Decide was recorded in just 5 days in February 2018
with multitalented engineer and band's beloved friend John Vulgaris at Electric
Highway Studios in Athens, Greece. The entire band -- drummer
Aris Fasoulis, bassist Spiros Papadatos, and guitarists Fotis Kolokithas and
Politis --recorded the instrumental tracks live in 3 days, reserving the last 2
for vocals. Over the 2 months that followed Vulgaris and the band fine-tuned
the mix into the subtle and clever masterwork you have before you.
BUS formed in Athens
in 2011, releasing two EPs and a full length The Impious Tapes, followed by The
Cross EP (2014), and The Unknown Secretary LP in 2016. During that time the
band has toured extensively throughout Greece and in neighboring nations.
The release of Never Decide will see them expanding that touring radius
considerably.
Never Decide is available on LP, CD and download, released
on March 1st, 2019 via RidingEasy Records. It is available to purchase HERE.
Artist: BUS
Album: Never Decide
Label: RidingEasy Records
Release Date: March 1st, 2019
01. You Better Come In, You Better Calm Down
02. The Hunt
03. I Buried Paul
04. Lucifer
05. First Life Suicide
06. Moonchild
07. Into the Night
08. Evil Eyes
09. Dying
10. This King
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