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King Rat

Denver, Colorado, United States | INDIE

Denver, Colorado, United States | INDIE
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"King Rat to spice Thanksgiving eve"

Local punk rock band King Rat will celebrate the release of their new cd next wednesday at the Bluebird Theater. Conveniently scheduled the night before Thanksgiving - one of the biggest party night of the year - the show should attract a good crowd to pay tribute to the band's latest and most acomplished effort to date.
Titled "Beautiful Songs for Ugly Children," the album has 13 solid, fast-paced punk rock tracks, including standouts like the opening track, "10 High," with its catchy melodies broken up by powerful screaming vocals and breakneck guitars. "Goodbye 99" makes an emotional statement by lead singer Luke Schmaltz about letting go of the memories of a violent bar fight in 1999 where he was stabbed in the back by a gang member.
"Trip Chick" is a tight, pop-punk gem with a slight punkabilly flair that's certain to get the crowd jumping ... - The Denver Post (11-16-01 ... 3 albums ago)


"King Rat - Everything Burns"

For fifteen years, King Rat has held down its own smelly corner of Denver's punk scene. That kind of longevity alone is commendable - especially considering the volatile, at times self destructive nature of King Rat's music, a crackling blitzkrieg of hard rock, '80's hardcore and Mike Ness-style confessionals. On it's sixth full-length EVERYTHING BURNS , the band taps into a deeper source: itself. Frontman Luke Schmaltz has always played and sang from the gut, but here he's yanking shit from his bones; maniacally focused, scathingly cathartic and surprisingly catchy, the album sports everything from kiss-offs to shout-alongs, often in the same breath. It's Schmaltz's brutal candor and way with a witty phrase, though, that drives home this batch of ass-kicking, razor-etched anthems. It isn't young, polite or easy on the eyes (or ears). But it feels damn good.
- Jason Heller
- Westword Denver


Discography

1995 - The Towne Liar
1998 - Knockin' Up Heaven's Whore
2000 - Big Plans
2002 - Beautiful Songs for Ugly Children
2005 - Duct Tape and Dreams
2010 - Everything Burns
2011 - Sacred Things

Brand new freshly mixed and as of yet unmastered tracks from the above mentioned Sacred Things recording can be heard in this EPK. The fetured title is the aptly named love song Fun to Fuck a Fuckup ...

Songs from Duct Tape and Dreams can be heard at myspace.com/kingrat

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King Rat was formed in the basement of a music store / head shop in the summer of 1995 by Luke Schmaltz. Sixteen years, seven records and a slew of tours later and they are rocking with more pungence than ever. Their latest album "Everything Burns" was released on April 2nd of 2010 on Denver's Fivecore Records. Their live show is the culmination of a decade and a half of relentless practice, gigging, songwriting, recording, breaking, healing and harsdcrabble tough-knock survival. They seamlessly link together and sling out 2 &1/2 minute riff heavy anthemic tirades of venomous melodic rancor for an hour straight - sometimes two. They don't need a light show. They don't use fancy pedals or effects. No stage props (doucheboxes). No apology. The music grabs you by the ears and rattles your bones reminding you that life is short, brutal and beautiful and you are the keeper of timepiece, wielder of battle axe and beholder of glory.

King Rat careens into 2011 with an upcoming western US mini tour and a brand new EP entitled "Sacred Things" that will be released on vinyl with an accompanying free digital download. Samples of the brand new songs(as in first week of April, 2011) can be heard in this EPK! The featured tune is the apty name love song Fun to Fuck a Fuckup ... play it for your sweetheart!