Metal Shock Finland (World Assault )

WHAT HAS now become a genuine international phenomenon started life on a farm in central Finland; in a barn, to be precise…

Here, a bunch of like-minded countrymen (with the emphasis on country!) played a customised version of  AC/DC‘s ‘Thunderstruck’ wearing the daftest outfits they could find. They filmed the event, posted the results on YouTube, and within a couple of weeks the clip had accumulated over five million views, earning coverage in Guitar World, Revolver, Loudwire, Blabbermouth and Metal Sucks plus the rest of the elite metal media.

For STEVE ‘N’ SEAGULLS, this was a bolt from the blue, but then – as history shows us – the greatest stories ever told tend to start in a stable…

Watch Steve’N’Seagulls perform ‘Thunderstruck’ (LIVE) here

BEFORE LONG, ‘Thunderstuck’ had racked up several million more views (it’s now over 10 million!), and Steve ‘N’ Seagulls had joined forces with Spinefarm Records, with the result that these five ‘barnyard boogiemen’ are now on the verge of an international release for their debut album, ‘Farm Machine’ in May.

Sporting possibly the greatest band name in history, S‘N’S – that’s an acoustic guitarist/vocalist; a banjo player; a double-bassist; a big dude wearing overalls an’ a beaver hat playing mandolin/keyboards/accordion/whatever-he-gets-his-hands-on; and a cajon-straddlin’ percussionist – have delivered a 13-track album featuring rural riffs and villager vocals, filled to the brim with ‘hillbillified’ versions of immortal heavy metal standards – the likes of ‘Holy Diver’ (Dio), ‘The Trooper’ (Iron Maiden), ‘Seek And Destroy’ (Metallica) ‘Paradise City’ (Guns n’ Roses) and ‘Thunderstruck’ (AC/DC)

Album celebrations kick off with a home-grown show (streamed live around the globe by Finland’s nationwide TV Nelonen) on April 17th, then ‘Farm Machine’ comes bursting through the barn doors on May 5th (Germany, Austria, Switzerland, Finland), May 11th (UK/rest Europe), and a day later in the US. It’s a body of work best enjoyed with a bath-tub of moonshine close at hand, but really, as foot-stompingly enjoyable as S‘N’S are on record, you ain’t seen nothin’ ’til you’ve experienced The ’Gulls live. These guys are hotter than a goat’s butt in a pepper patch and crazy as darn shithouse rats!

The redneck show tours non-stop – rocking the honky-tonks in Finland & Estonia until the end of April, then moving on to jangle the living bejeezus out of UK fans in May; the UK dates are as follows…

MAY 2015
16 – Brighton, The Great Escape
17 – Rushden, Athletic Club
18 – London, Borderline
19 – Southampton, Talking Heads
20 – Nuneaton, Queens Hall
21 – Harwich, The Red Lion Manningtree
To purchase tickets go to http://www.kililive.com

AFTER THE British hillbilly takeover, Steve‘N’Seagulls will skedaddle off to Swedish and Norwegian soil, before raisin’ hell at European festivals and then, in September, heading over to the US & Canada before returning to Europe for further merriment and mayhem.

No doubt about it, S‘N’S are in hot demand. Everywhere. Let the ‘hillbillification’ commence…

“Finally it’s complete!” exclaim the band, “and the fruits of our labour please us. We are now preparing to take on the world!”