Russian Metal Band ANJ Conquers America After Being No 1 On Digg Video

MOSCOW, Russia (Top40 Charts/ ANJ Official Website) - The year of 2008 is the year when Russian metal band ANJ started their quest to conquer America.

When you meet the band in real life, they sound exactly like one would expect Russians to sound based on a medley of cold war movies. But when on stage, these guys will rock your socks off!

ANJ first came to the US in March of this year to work with producer John Travis (Kid Rock, Static-X) and video director Tom Stern (Marilyn Manson, the Red Hot Chili Peppers, Extreme). What came out of that trip was a song and a music video "Gorbachev".

This outrageous music video that features (muscular and oiled up) Gorby the barbarian defeating ugly communist zombies and liberating hot Russian girls , immediately climbed to number one position on Digg in Video category and stayed there for more than a week - not bad for a previously unknown band in our age when everybody's attention span is shorter than a mosquito bite!

So far the music video subtitled by director Tom Stern "Bigger and Russianier" has gotten more than half a million views on Vimeo and more than a hundred thousand views on YouTube.

Currently the band is on their US tour opening for Yngwie Malmsteen. They have rocked clubs and theaters all over the country, mesmerizing unsuspecting Americans with their charmingly bearish accents and crazy wicked guitar solos. They don't stop at that, and keep boldly improvising with their stage image - one night the lead singer Anatoly Zhuravlev appears on stage in a cowboy hat, the next night he has a green mohawk and is dressed as a joker. And the tour is not over yet!
Their new album "Russian Roulette" will be hitting all digital outlets shortly.