 New York, NY. (Top40 Charts/ City Canyons Records) - City Canyons Records announces the release of Finnish group Valerian's hot new monster of an album, GUERILLA FIGHTING METHOD on June 5, 2007. "Hot" is not just slang for a winning rocker, although the album is certainly that. "Hot" also means angry. Valerian has issues with "The Man" and the band doesn't hold anything back, attacking everyone from "Mr. Despot," (who bears a striking resemblance to certain current politicians) to those who attempt to destroy the will and identity of the younger generation in "Children of the Menticide". None of the album becomes a preachy diatribe however. Huge twin guitars from Toni Ritonen and Matti Toivonen, the remarkable rhythm section of bassist Janne Jääskeläinen and drummer Tipi Andersson together with the protean voice of lead singer Olli Koskela grabs your body and soul and won't let go. The powerful political and social statements of the Finnish group dominate the album but there are some other winning components of the CD as well including, by way of example, a haunting and somewhat disturbing lament for lost love in "Reservoir" and a tender ballad, "My Only Love". GUERILLA FIGHTING METHOD is the second album from Valerian. While the band's first album under the City Canyons Record label, INTIMATIONS OF SORROW, was hailed as a glam metal influenced classic, the Finnish five go in a somewhat different direction this time, blending such influences as Guns n' Roses with post-Nirvana alternative rock and the social and political awareness of a Bruce Springsteen. GUERILLA FIGHTING METHOD will be immediately available at the City Canyons Records Online Music Store and available soon thereafter at Amazon.com and CD Baby as well as through Apple iTunes and other top digital retailers and at select retail stores in various locations through the United States this fall. City Canyons Records is an independent label in downtown Manhattan. The artists on its roster are diverse musically and geographically-performing in a wide variety of musical genres ranging from alternative rock to rootsy rock to hard rock to alternative pop to world-fusion and come from the United States, the United Kingdom and Scandinavia. City Canyons' artists have performed in venues internationally and throughout the United States. These artists include, in addition to Finland's Valerian, Jen Elliott and Bluestruck, The Alrights and The Velmas from the United States and ANEMO, David Steele and Peter Ulrich from the UK.
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