The Wild!

The Wild! (Kelowna, BC)

Dylan Villain - lead guitar & vocals

The Kid - rhythm guitar

Lucas 'Boozus' - bass & vocals

Reese Lightning - drums

Shooting guns, setting fires and shaking shacks with half-stacks make for the type of nights that separate the men from the boys and THE WILD! from the other 99% of what some people are calling rock’n’roll these days. Anybody who’s ever been told to turn it down, clean it up or to go home lives inside of what the God Damn Wild Boys are all about. Driven by long, hard nights, the love of playing music, rural roots, and a no-bullshit mentality, THE WILD! play the soundtrack for freedom seeking renegades & real deal rock’n’rollers alike.

DYLAN VILLAIN embodies all of the reckless abandon and good-natured devilish charm that could only be born in a very small backwoods community. Counterbalancing VILLAIN’s snakebite rasp is bassist/vocalist BOOZUS. Beer drinkin’, beard havin’, fly-fishin’ are his favorite past times. Kickin’ ass & keeping time is drummer REESE LIGHTNING. A beast with beats & everyone’s favorite asshole.  Rounding it out, THE KID on guitar & vocals.

“I feel like for every thousand bands that are out there right now you’ll get maybe ten that believe the things they’re singing about, which is the most important thing to me in any genre,” says VILLAIN. “I don’t give a shit what kind of music you play. If you care about it then really give yourself to that moment. Our fans aren’t stupid and I feel that they’re hungry for things that aren’t so disposable.”

In 2014, their first single “Road House” went viral on Youtube which led to notable airplay at rock radio in Canada. The song landed in the TOP 30 rock chart. Later that summer, THE WILD! hit the road playing alongside bands like Korn, Rise Against, Monster Truck, The Glorious Sons and One Bad Son.

All of this momentum lead to the band doing a deal with eOne Music Canada. 

What do they sound like?

Take the gritty authenticity of the Delta Blues and speed it up with a reckless punk rock attitude. Now roll that into a southern rock cigarette. You feelin’ that yet? Throw that shit into 5th and tighten your grip around the neck of your electric guitar. 

That’s exactly what THE WILD! gets up to on their debut release, ‘GxDxWxB’’, which stands for ‘God Damn Wild Boys’. Produced by Mike Fraser (AC/DC, Aerosmith, Jimmy Page, Van Halen) at a pair of legendary studios (Warehouse/Armoury) in Vancouver, ‘GxDxWxB’ summons all the unbridled howls, raw melodicism, streetwise attitude & aggression from all the influences and vices that make THE WILD! who they are.

“Even underneath the loud guitars you can hear the love for the blues in our songs,” declares vocalist/lead guitarist DYLAN VILLAIN. “We believe in music with conviction. THE WILD! is a mixture of what the blues feels like, rock’n’roll sounds like, and punk-rock smells like.”

With the first single “Party ‘Til You’re Dead” released in support of a massive Canadian Tour supporting Buckcherry. The song was one of which Producer Mike Fraser “insisted” be on the debut EP.

In April of 2015, the band released their second single “Slow Burn”. Canada’s Rock Programmers proudly put the song into heavy rotation sneaking it all the way up to #5 Overall for a short while. “Slow Burn” and THE WILD! remained in the Top 10 for ten weeks.

Later, The Wild! were still on the road supporting their EP ‘GxDxWxB’ with bands such as Godsmack, Saint Asonia, and Buckcherry. At this point, the band had just signed a deal with eOne Music USA, making them the first Canadian band to sign globally with eOne via the label’s New York office.

“We’ve generated a lot of interest in rock’n’roll here in Canada,” says DYLAN VILLAIN. “And now we’re looking forward to sharing our sound with the rest of the world. We really hit the nail on the head with what we wanted to do with this band. I feel that there’s a lot of bands out there that try to do this or that, but we don’t try to do anything. We just do.”   

The Fall of 2016 has seen The Wild! Complete a full North American Tour in Support of AIRBOURNE (Australia) then launched a new single worldwide, and at home in Canada “Ready To Roll” debuted at #25 on the Rock Charts.  

Management

LCE MUSIC

lyle@LCEmusic.ca