August 23, 1993

Dear Valued Journalist,

SHOTGUN MESSIAH GEAR UP FOR RELEASE OF FULL-LENGHT ALBUM
APPROPRIATELY TITLED "VIOLENT NEW BREED"
OUT SEPTEMVER 28 ON RELATIVITY RECORDS.

Shotgun Messiah are ready to their third full-length album titled 'Violent New Breed', due out September 28 on Relativity Records.

'Violent New Breed' marks a reinvention of sorts for Shotgun Messiah who returned to their native Sweden to record. The new album was produced and arranged by Cybersank and Shotgun Messiah and recorded at Atlantis Recording Studio in Stockholm during the early cold winter months of 1993. 'Violent New Breed' merges the harshness of the machine age with Tims SKold's raw vocals and harry Cody's furious guitar, which further intensifies the band's hard sonic core. The rewards of melding these sounds are 12 solid in-your-face tracks: "I'm A Gun", "Come Down", the title track "Violent New Breed", "Enemy In Me", "Revolution", "Money Needs", "Rain", "Jihad", "Side F/X", "Sex", "Overkill" and "I Come In Peace".

Shotgun Messiah have always been something of an anomaly; part punk, part hard rock, part outsider, difficult to categorize, never quite fitting any particular mold. And with 'Violent New Breed', Shotgun Messiah continue to tweak their parameters by using more machines. According to Cody, "If it's possible to have a sonic backdrop of machines running riot, then why the hell not just go for it?" "Fully expanded 32 meg mayhem," adds Skold.

Lyrical influences contained on 'Violent New Breed' focus on violence, dystopia, cinema, sex, religion, greed and the usuall fodder infecting urban life as we know it today. Sample lyrics include: "I'm a technicolor nightmare ride/I'm a repossession of a blind obsession/I'm a chainsaw stuck in overdrive," from "I'm A Gun"; "The power preaching deceit/Rewarding hatred and greed," from the title cut and first radio track "Violent New Breed"; "I can feel my body is beginning to rebel now/Nothing I can do I'm turning into something else now," from "Enemy In Me"; "Passed out on the Tel Aviv offramp/Shot down/Got too close to the sun/Burned out/Like a molotov cocktail," from "Jihad"; "I've got Jesus in my fax machine/I saw Ho-Chi Minh down at Burger King/I dated Elvis as a drag queen," from "Side F/X"; and "Surgical smiles/Suck the blood from my lip," from "Overkill", to cite a few.

This ain't you fathers classic rock collection," stated Cody. No shit.


For further Violent information, please contact:

Tresa Redburn at Levine/Schneider Public Relations
8730 Sunset Boulevard - 6th fl. - Los Angeles, CA 90069
(310) 659 - 6400
fax (310) 659 - 1309

Relativity Media Relations:
Kerry Cooley/Van Riker/Amy Bloebaum - Relativity LA 310/212 - 0801
Grace Heck/Rob Lawi - Relativity NY 310/217 - 3600

(Note: The press release titles the song "Monkey Needs" as "Money Needs". A misprint.)