The Story
25 plus years of raunch n roll from the Hangmen!
Musical trends may come and go, but the Hangmen keep moving forward heedlessly with the headlong
momentum of a runaway train. The quartet's new album on Acetate Records, East of Western (to be
released in April 2012), smashes together lead singer Bryan Small's lurid love songs with unsparing,
unsentimental blasts that shine a baleful and penetrating light into the dark and seedy corners of modernday
Los Angeles.
The Hangmen have always been a unique group that can't be easily pigeonholed, and East of Western
captures all of their different sides. When they first got together in L.A. in 1987, the Hangmen were fiery
and hard rocking enough to play with metal bands, but they also had a stubbornly rootsy and punk rock
attitude that made them fit in just as easily with such legendary underground icons as the Gun Club and
Tex & the Horseheads. Their trademark dual-guitar attack combines the classic-rock drive of the Rolling
Stones and AC/DC with the hard-charging swagger of Johnny Thunders' Heartbreakers and the sinister
allure of the Cramps.
But what really makes the Hangmen stand out is Small's gift for writing anthemic choruses with huge
hooks, which he delivers with his distinctly feral and instantly recognizable snarl. On East of
Western, he sneers his way through boldly hard-rocking romantic pleas ('I'm Your Man'), Western-tinged
barn-burners ('Railroad Man') and insomniac tales of junkie self-destruction and ultimate redemption
('Drink Smoke'). With its big, fat and leering monster riff, 'Big Red Rooster' is a fitting homage to the late
Lux Interior of the Cramps, who Small lovingly describes as a 'teenage bastard of the chosen one.'
Drummer Dino Guerrero (who has played with Mike Ness, as well as supergroup Charley Horse with members of Nashville Pussy and Throw Rag) and longtime Hangmen bassist Angelique Congleton are joined by lead guitarist Ron Heathman (ex-Supersuckers).
Track Listing
- HomeSick Blues
- I'm Your Man
- Had A Girl
- Grave Robber
- Drink, Smoke
- Railroad Man
- Betrayed
- Big Red Rooster
- She Cracked
- Haunted
Additional Details
Label: Acetate Records
Genre: Alternative/Punk
Run Time: 34:00 mins
Region: 0
Release Date: 10/25/19
UPC: 094061704526
Description
25 plus years of raunch n roll from the Hangmen!
Musical trends may come and go, but the Hangmen keep moving forward heedlessly with the headlong
momentum of a runaway train. The quartet's new album on Acetate Records, East of Western (to be
released in April 2012), smashes together lead singer Bryan Small's lurid love songs with unsparing,
unsentimental blasts that shine a baleful and penetrating light into the dark and seedy corners of modernday
Los Angeles.
The Hangmen have always been a unique group that can't be easily pigeonholed, and East of Western
captures all of their different sides. When they first got together in L.A. in 1987, the Hangmen were fiery
and hard rocking enough to play with metal bands, but they also had a stubbornly rootsy and punk rock
attitude that made them fit in just as easily with such legendary underground icons as the Gun Club and
Tex & the Horseheads. Their trademark dual-guitar attack combines the classic-rock drive of the Rolling
Stones and AC/DC with the hard-charging swagger of Johnny Thunders' Heartbreakers and the sinister
allure of the Cramps.
But what really makes the Hangmen stand out is Small's gift for writing anthemic choruses with huge
hooks, which he delivers with his distinctly feral and instantly recognizable snarl. On East of
Western, he sneers his way through boldly hard-rocking romantic pleas ('I'm Your Man'), Western-tinged
barn-burners ('Railroad Man') and insomniac tales of junkie self-destruction and ultimate redemption
('Drink Smoke'). With its big, fat and leering monster riff, 'Big Red Rooster' is a fitting homage to the late
Lux Interior of the Cramps, who Small lovingly describes as a 'teenage bastard of the chosen one.'
Drummer Dino Guerrero (who has played with Mike Ness, as well as supergroup Charley Horse with members of Nashville Pussy and Throw Rag) and longtime Hangmen bassist Angelique Congleton are joined by lead guitarist Ron Heathman (ex-Supersuckers).
Track Listing
- HomeSick Blues
- I'm Your Man
- Had A Girl
- Grave Robber
- Drink, Smoke
- Railroad Man
- Betrayed
- Big Red Rooster
- She Cracked
- Haunted
Additional Details
Label: Acetate Records
Genre: Alternative/Punk
Run Time: 34:00 mins
Region: 0
Release Date: 10/25/19
UPC: 094061704526
