UK Rockers Kris Barras Band To Release New Studio Album ‘Death Valley Paradise’ On March 4

KRIS BARRAS- 2021 Photo copyright by JOHN McMURTRIE

Kris Barras Band To Release New Studio Album

‘Death Valley Paradise’ On March 4

Via Mascot Records/Mascot Label Group

New Single & Video “My Parade”

Steamrolling into the end of 2021, British Heavyweight rockers the Kris Barras Band have announced their brand-new album, Death Valley Paradise, along with their most anthemic, call-to-arms song to date, with its riotous Purge-esque video in “My Parade.” The new album will be released on March 4, 2022 via Mascot Records/Mascot Label Group (Black Stone Cherry, 10 Years, Crobot.)

Watch “My Parade”

The Kris Barras Band throws down the gauntlet on their new modern rock chant anthem “My Parade.” It’s a tough track packed with heavy sounds and a body-moving beat that only adds to the hard-nosed attitude Barras exudes. The horror/Purge-influenced video stacks another level of intimidation and brashness onto this already-tenacious track. It’s an amazing protest song that works at both the collective and individual levels and will infuse listeners with the backbone needed to be themselves authentically.

The album’s high voltage calling card is “My Parade” – the bands’ protest song. “It says this my parade, but it’s collective, it’s our parade,” Barras says. “This is my life, and this is how I’m gonna live it and if you don’t like it. Fuck off.” Album opener and first single, “Dead Horses,” shakes the foundations delving into broken relationships, which steamrolls into the crunching “Long Gone,” a tale of letting go.

Produced by Dan Weller (Enter Shikari, Bury Tomorrow, Monster Truck) they return heavier, darker, more introspective but enormous at the same time. Barras decided to remove all shackles and began collaborating with songwriters, such as the heavyweights; Jonny Andrews (Three Days Grace, Fozzy), Bob Marlette (Alice Cooper, Airbourne, Rob Zombie), Blair Daly (Halestorm, Black Stone Cherry) and Zac Maloy (Shinedown, Tyler Bryant).

Death Valley Paradise started life as a song before it was dissected and spread across the album. Death Valley is a place of extremes, where living things are said to not be able to survive. “To survive and thrive in those circumstances and find your paradise in it. For me, it sums up the journey I’ve been through. As a musician, you were put into a place where it was hard to survive, and you had to do different things to keep it moving.”

For the ex-MMA/Cage Fighter, there was only one way out, to re-focus. “Once Covid hit, it was a case of ‘anything goes’, and I don’t give a fuck anymore,” he says with no preconceived plan for the album. “This is an album of no limitations; I felt that nothing was off the table for it.”

One of the shining lights of the period was co-writing. “It was a bit of a game-changer”, Kris enthuses. “I never felt it was like, ‘here’s a song, there you go’. They would get into what I’m into. Then seeing what I’ve got, they’d say, that’s really cool, what if you did it like this. That was just brilliant because it gave me some different outlooks and just sent me off on a different path,” he says, completely joyous about the experience. “I wrote more than half the album with Blair Daly,” he says. “We’ve become good friends now.”

The band features a rhythm section of Billy Hammett (Drums) and Kelpie Mackenzie (Bass) along with Kris Barras (Lead Vocals/Guitar) and Josiah J. Manning (Rhythm Guitars/ Vocals). “The band on this album are a big part of how it sounds. When we get in a room and jam, everything just comes out heavier and more angsty,” Barras says.

With the albums The Divine And Dirty (2018) and Light It Up (2019) the band has had a meteoric rise in the UK. From small hometown bars to 13,000 tickets on sale for their upcoming UK headline tour, the band have risen up the ranks to become one of the spearheads of the heavy rock revival. Their breakout album, Light It Up, smashed into the UK Top 50 Album Charts, they won the ‘Best New Band Award’ at Planet Rock Radio – the UK’s No1 Rock Station, had radio smash hits, multiple sold-out tours, performed live on daytime BBC Radio 2 twice, supported the likes of Black Stone Cherry and Rich Robinson (The Black Crowes), not to mention showstopping festival performances and the army of fervent fans they are sweeping up along the way.

The ride isn’t slowing down yet. They are set for an incredible 12 months ahead; They’ve just finished a sold-out UK tour with Black Stone Cherry, culminating with a show at the world-famous Royal Albert Hall. Their biggest headline tour to date begins in March 2022, followed by playing the iconic Wembley Arena in support of Thunder.