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.
Press Quotes:
“One of the best new bands” - Rolling Stone
“If the recognizable names in Year Long Disaster don’t get your attention, the familiarity of the L.A. trio’s riffage will – tight, bluesy metal that sounds as if they swaggered into the middle of a Led Zeppelin-ZZ Top bar fight.”
- Los Angeles Times
“YLD sounds like a dream mash-up of Led Zeppelin and Jeff Buckley sporting some of the best hooks I’ve heard in months!” - Guitar World “It’s literally rocking stuff.” - LA Weekly
“The hooks on this album are big enough to catch whales…They just plain kick ass!” - Outburn
“Not since we heard AC/DC’s Back in Black for the first time have we been so rocked by an album.” - Hustler
“YLD delivers mind-numbing body blows throughout their first LP” – Big Takeover
“Channeling classic rock, heavy riffs, and, at times, the ghost of Axl Rose, Year Long Disaster has bridged the great divide and come out ready to conquer.” – Thrasher
“They’ve recorded one of the best debuts of the year.” - Metal Maniacs
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