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Kill The Pessimists

In the beginning: A guitarist and wordsmith answering to the name of Russ descends a staircase into the dark bowels of a house on the Archway Road. It is boredom that has brought him here. That and decades worth of musical ideas bouncing around his head which will, if not given an outlet, probably lead to his eventual committal...... What lurks in the basement is the key to releasing those ideas. A man with a beard called Steve. Luckily, he is a man with ideas of his own. Meanwhile, possibly on that very same night, another man sits behind the drum kit on stage at an unidentified toilet venue somewhere in London. His name is Sascha. He's been here before......many many times. Luckily, he is a man with ideas of his own too. Little does he know that at that moment, his name is brought up in conversation. A conversation of plots to kidnap and assimilate, to take over the music capital of London and eventually the world, a plot to begin this beautifully terrible experiment called Healer/Monster................ This is one badass, funky, heavy, riffing threepiece that blasts blues into the new millennium and rearranges rock's pouting mug while it's about it. the idea is stupidly loud Guitar, hard beats and a bottom end designed to dislodge vital organs, all gently roasted in a common household PC...... Healer/Monster have a truly a fresh sound, the sound of ying and yang, dusk and dawn, magnetic north and magnetic south, being fused unflinchingly together. They understand that there's a healer, and a monster, within each and every one of us and so they represent an unruly amalgamation of the two perspectives.... a heavy, funky, bluesy, piece of alt rock gold, equally at home stroking you to sleep as it is smacking you in the face. This is music created without a need to fit in to any kind of scene and often, without a decent wash. Healer/Monster are three men unleashing their own musical Jekyll and Hyde onto the world: Russ, Sacha and Steve. They are, to a man, the thinking person's dumb assed rock and roll satyrs for the new nuclear age.

1. Arcadian1

   Is that Richard Branson in the photo?

2. deelay

   rocking! sounds cool!

3. Lawrawr

   coooool sounds, bring them to V !!!

4. Davey30

   Nice one guys cool tune

5. Healer/Monster

   Yeah thanks for that!

6. STOCKwinder

   singer looks like ted raimi!

7. summerishere

   massive sound - only 3 of you? smart

8. bowiefanno1

   very good tune - i want more

9. limeylem

   good looking blokes with guitars - ticks all the boxes

10. stripey9

    a satyr is a god - gods of rock!

11. emptinesseye

    what is a satyr? is it like what rory bremner does? anyhoo good tune

12. walkmangirl

    why did they put the girlish bang bangs back as a featured band? i wanna see real men at v not girly men

13. Whitenoise

    The only band that could open V in my book. Outstanding synthesis of big rock guitar and comic book ideas.

14. weavehole

    Above average in Height. Of this I approve muchly! Well done to all concerned

15. 300

    if i say nice things can i come to v too?

16. blinky79797

    im a healer and a bit of a monster too like it lots

17. kinkykaty

    excellent stuff - nice to hear a featured band with balls! xx

18. jeremy10

    you've won me over - v good tune

19. yoikes

    bloody brilliant track

20. helpmeout123

    excellent track i love you and i love V

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