Manchester’s dirty southern rock mavericks, GORILLA RIOT, return with new 9-song album, SALVATION, scheduled for release Fri 11th October and available to pre-order now via TMR Rock Records.
Third single and title track, SALVATION is out now across all streaming platforms.
The album, SALVATION, is available for pre-order now and comes in a variety of formats to please everyone.
News of first single and new album comes off the back of the recently announced headline UK tour that runs for 12 dates and visits the length of the UK and includes…
- Sat 12 Oct – The Deaf Institute, Manchester – hometown album launch show
- Sun 13 Oct – O2 Academy2, Islington
- Thur 17 Oct – Nightrain, Bradford
- Fri 18 Oct – The Station, Cannock
- Sat 19 Oct – Leo’s Red Lion, Gravesend
- Sun 20 Oct – The Bullingdon, Oxford
- Fri 25 Oct – Rock City Beta, Nottingham
- Sat 26 Oct – Independent, Sunderland
- Sun 27 Oct – Bannerman’s, Edinburgh
- Sun 03 Nov – Portland Arms, Cambridge
- Fri 08 Nov – Corporation, Sheffield
- Sun 10 Nov – Heartbreakers, Southampton
Tickets available at: BandsInTown
Mainman, Arjun Bhishma said of the new single, “Salvation is the title track on this album. It felt appropriate as the band has had a few lineup changes over the course of the last few years, so getting this album out has been quite a journey.
“It’s a roots rock ‘n’ roll tune with beautiful gospel style backing vocals that stick in your head, and a swinging catchy rhythm that was recorded like the great artists of the 60s, live and raw.
“Who knows? In a world that’s getting crazier and more divisive maybe music can be some small salvation for people. We like to think so.”
He continued, “SALAVATION the album, is a beautiful melting pot between classic R’n’B, rock ‘n’ roll, and a voluptuous helping of gospel and soul. It features heartfelt vocals & lyrics straight from the depths of life, accompanied by a wide range of soulful guitars, traditional eastern instruments, and gospel vocals… all the way down to the dirty grit of the blues. We mainly recorded it in an analogue environment with us playing in one room, the warmth and humanity can be experienced in every single one of these songs, and we hope it provides an emotional and inclusive experience to you all.”
Gorilla Riot are a 5-piece, dirty rock n’ roll blues machine. Utilising a dual-pronged guitar attack with multi-part vocal harmonies; they play raucous blues-based rock, combining elements of grunge, stoner, and country to create a full-on high energy sonic experience.
Mainman, Arjun Bhishma, surrounded himself with the best talent in Manchester to form Gorilla Riot. Arjun, is joined by Charly T. (guitars & vocals), Deggy (bass), and Matt Talbot (skins) with Luci Vee (backing vocals).
They have built their reputation as a hard living, hard playing, genre-straddling rock n roll band that can draw forth tears of joy one minute and then the pain of a heart-felt lament, the next.
They have entered the charts twice in recent times… on ‘Earache Records presents New Wave Of Rock N Roll’ compilation album, as well as ‘NWOCR Volume 1’ – both hitting Top #10 in their respective charts.
Equally at home acoustically or electrically, they have toured extensively with headline shows in Spain and France, and across the UK. That reputation saw them invited to join sold out shows with REEF and also Airbourne and The Darkness.