Manraze, the supergroup made up of
Phil Collen of
Def Leppard,
Simon Laffy of
GIRL and
Paul Cook of the
Sex Pistols, has released a free download of their track
Over My Dead Body, the first single from the new album
PUNKFUNKROOTSROCK.
The download is available on
Soundcloud, as well as a streaming version of their cover of the
Jimi Hendrix classic
Fire.
Originally released as a limited Holiday download to the Manraze and Def Leppard social media outlets,
Over My Dead Body reached the download limit within 10 minutes, and within 24 hours was streamed over 4500 times.
Fire has been no less explosive, tearing up internet radio stations Worldwide, currently #1 on the iHeartRadio Rock on Demand Chart, with both tracks set to be released to terrestrial Rock radio in the Spring.
Manraze also recently completed a video for the track
Take on the World, written for UK Superbike champion Tommy Hill, the theme for the film
I, Superbiker 2: The Showdown, chronicling Tommy’s rise to the 2011 British Superbike championship, set to be released theatrically across England in Spring.
Manraze formed in 2004 in London, when Collen reconnected with Simon Laffy, his bandmate in the seminal UK Glam/Rock act GIRL, and the duo began collaborating on material, eventually recruiting legendary Sex Pistols drummer Paul Cook. After playing several intimate sold-out shows in the UK, the band released their debut album Surreal in 2008, and the follow-up
PUNKFUNKROOTSROCK in 2011.
And despite its status as a "side project", Manraze is anything but typical Rock-Star vanity fare, as evidenced in spades on
PUNKFUNKROOTSROCK, an ambitious slab of finely crafted modern Pop/Rock sensibility, fully stocked with Collen’s legendary hard rock riffs, Cook’s hard-hitting (filth and) fury, and Laffy’s rhythmic swagger; An infectious clash of 70’s simplicity and 80’s excess, sure to thrill anyone who has ever dropped the needle on a record and cranked it up to 10.
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