The album had been put to bed but the band were still bouncing around ideas and they had the opportunity to work with award winning producers Gavin Brown and Maia Davies on songs ‘Evolution’, Young City Hearts’ and ‘Hurricane’. Us in a room, having fun, joking and yelling at each other.” That just kicks off the entire vibe of the album. “I mean right off the beginning of the album you hear me scream at Marv. Harvey affirms, “We want people to listen to it and have fun, have as much fun as possible.” “Yeah, that’s what I was gonna say too,” adds guitarist Jeremy Widerman. True Rockers’ is the sound of a band letting lose and having fun. Inspiration is so valuable.” They then returned to Echo Mountain Studios in Asheville, North Carolina in July 2017 to record the album. “When the inspiration strikes, use it, if you’re not gonna use it, you’re wasting it” says frontman/bassist Jon ‘Marv’ Harvey, “as soon as you think of something could be a good song, work on it, immediately. They embarked on their biggest European headline tour to date selling out venues across the continent and thundered through main stage festival slots at RockPalast (Germany), Ramblin’ Man Fair (UK), Download (UK), Rock on the Range (US), Shiprocked (US) and Rock in Vienna (Austria) amongst others.ĭuring the time on the road the band took a recording rig on tour and songs came together for what was to become ‘True Rockers’ and they began to send material back and forth to producer Dan Weller (SiKth, Young Guns, Enter Shikari). It’s been two years since the mighty ‘Sittin’ Heavy’ came out and in the 18 months that followed its release, they played over 150 shows, which included arena tours with Nickelback, Billy Talent and for the final ever European Deep Purple tour – They also played with Black Stone Cherry, Volbeat, The Temperance Movement, Jane’s Addiction, Rob Zombie and Alter Bridge. I think the juxtaposition feels more natural than we expected, and the end product speaks for itself.” We wanted to keep the video looking like the image that we built rather than have another curveball. It was very eye opening in many different ways for us. Speaking about the track and video, singer Jon Harvey explained: “Evolution, as a song, was a real shift in a different direction. Monster Truck return with their brand new video for Evolution. The track is taken from the upcoming new album True Rockers, which will be released on Mascot Records/Mascot Label Group on 14 th September 2018.

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