Open Your Eyes, the new video from Birmingham, Alabama hard rockers Maylene And The Sons Of Disaster, can be seen at this location. The clip, which stars the one and only Danny Trejo, is stylized as a short film.
Commented Maylene frontman Dallas Taylor: “We’ve always been huge fans of Danny Trejo. We were on the same flight a few years ago but I didn’t get a chance to meet him. Ever since then, I’ve wanted him to be in one of our videos. Never in a million years did I think it would happen, so this is really special for us.”
As it turns out, video director Scott Hansen had worked with Trejobefore and was able to make it happen.
The video was shot in one day in Los Angeles, and stars Trejo as a sadistic mechanic.
The hard rock innovators are gearing up for a nationwide headlining tour in support of their acclaimed new album IV, out now via Ferret Music. The four-week trek will kick off January 25 in New Orleans and take the band to both coasts, with support from Lionize.
Produced by Brian Virtue [Janes Addiction, Deftones, Audioslave], IV is a departure from Maylene‘s previous albums, shining a spotlight on the band’s sleek songcraft, virtuosic prowess and depth of musical identity. The primal-scream therapy of underground star frontman Dallas Taylor takes on a much more multidimensional sense of atmosphere and texture on the record, finding the perfect balance of heavy-meets-euphoric while the band’s strong, fluid rock features big riffs, shifting tempos and a spot-on sense of balance. The new saga of Maylene And The Sons Of Disaster‘s compelling concept has been called “catchy, southern-infused hard rock” by MetalSucks and the band’s “most mature and unadulterated album” by Prefix.
On the record, the band continues its focused conceptual and lyrical bent which plots Maylene as renegade outlaws from a 1920s gangster / prohibition era real-life crime family. The record’s gritty musical shootouts are filled with intricate guitar riffing and whiskey drenched grooves, while the lyrics take your imagination back to a time when the exploits of gangs of criminals gripped the American people and press.
Maylene And The Sons Of Disaster features Dallas Taylor [vocals], Chad Huff [guitar], Jake Duncan [guitar / vocals] and Brad Lehmann [bass].
The band commented We kick off 2012 today!! New Orleans are you ready to get crazy!! Siberia tonight!, check out all the tour dates below:
25 – New Orleans, LA – Siberia
26 – Houston, TX – Fitzgerald’s
27 – Lubbock, TX – Jake’s Sports Café
28 – San Antonio, TX – The Korova Basement
30 – Albuquerque, NM – Launchpad
31 – Tempe, AZ – Red Owl
February
1 – Tucson, AZ – Skrappy’s
2 – Anaheim, CA – Chain Reaction
3 – San Diego, CA – Soma Sidestage
4 – San Francisco, CA – Three Parkside
6 – Portland, OR – Hawthorne Theater
7 – Seattle, WA – El Corazon
9 – Ogden, UT – Mojos Gallery
10 – Denver, CO – Marquis Theatre
11 – Colorado Springs, CO – The Black Sheep
13 – Kansas City, MO – The Riot Room
14 – St. Louis, MO – The Firebird
15 – Chicago, IL – Beat Kitchen
16 – Pontiac, MI – Pike Room at Crofoot
17 – Columbus, OH – The Basement
18 – Buffalo, NY – Broadway Jones
19 – Erie, PA – The Crooked I
21 – Worcester, MA – The Palladium (Upstairs)
22 – Brooklyn, NY – Knitting Factory
24 – Hartford, CT – Webster Underground
26 – Wilmington, NC – The Soapbox