4/30/2023 0 Comments L.a. guns guitarist michael grant![]() ![]() The band plans to get out and play shows again, once we’ve all returned to a sense of normalcy, of course. Grant is now focused full-time on The Assassins, who have already played shows in the US, including a performance on the Monsters of Rock Cruise 2019. Grant then served as touring guitarist for LA Guns for five years and also recorded one album with the band. Handling vocals, lead guitars, and songwriting, Grant released two albums with the band before disbanding them in 2012. Prior to The Assassins, Grant was the creative driving force behind Endeverafter, a San Francisco based alternative/hard rock band signed to Epic Records in the early ‘00s. While exploring different textures, genres, and influences, band mastermind Michael Grant (who plays all instruments on the album) creates a sound that is intense, heavily melodic, and anthemic. Michael Grant & The Assassins play a diverse and exciting brand of hard rock music incorporating elements from alternative and metal. Guns' camp.In the works since 2018, “Always The Villain” is Michael Grant & The Assassins debut album. Thanks so much for taking some time to let us know what's going on in L.A. Hopefully we can have it out by late spring so hopefully we can tour on it in the summer. We're gonna try to do it as fast as possible. When it comes to the new album is there a rough time we can expect it? If it doesn't say, "Go To LAX" I might not go. I just wake up, I show up and there's like a day sheet and go where the day sheet tells me. So we get some time off at home and I think we do something in the middle of the month but I don't know where. I think this was like a fly date and we played a private party last night. Click link below to preorder/presave/watch. What do you guys have coming up? Do you have a show tomorrow or do you have a little time? Michael Grant & The Assassins - Red Light Run music video out now From the album Always The Villain. That's one of the things I love about it. If you go from the self titled record, to Cocked & Loaded, to Hollywood Forever it's different but you're not going to be surprised that it's the same band. Guns, it's got that sound, it's got that style, but it's still different. Yeah because you just missed the release of the last album but that was honestly something I really liked about it. We're not trying to sound like Cocked & Loaded, we want to do something new, something that people can really get into and something that's got a lot of that same feel. All the things you love about us, mixed with some things you didn't know we could do. We just have to pull it all together and make this lineup of L.A. This will be the first record I play on of theirs and I've written about three or four songs already and Steve's got some demos, Phil's (Lewis, singer) got some stuff, Kenny's (Kweens, bassist) got some stuff. We're looking to go in for recording in October or November. I've been with them for about two years now and we're planning to record a new record in the winter this year. What do you have coming up for new music? You've been with the band for a while now so what do you have coming up? So I do a little more living to pick up the slack. Yeah and those guys are a couple years my senior so they might get a little tired faster. ![]() We were asking if he was leaving and he was saying how you guys were wrecked. Guns' drummer) a second ago because he was grabbing his bags getting in a car. We were just talking to Steven (Riley, L.A. We basically rolled in here and ran up onstage. We were on early so we didn't get to chill like everyone else. Grant told MetalTalk It took well over a year to make the album. We played basically two shows in a day in about a twelve hour span of each other. Grant, who plays all the instruments on the album, has been working on the project since 2018 and the sound, as seen on the single ‘Red Light Run’, has a hard rock edge both nicely melodic and anthemic. How do you feel because I know you guys played last night and you had to book it here pretty quick. It was a good response and it sounded great up there. The set was good, I felt pretty good about it. Charred Walls Of The Damned's Richard Christy. ![]()
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