The DeRellas: Belief Me This Is Going To Damage

The DeRellas: Belief Me This Is Going To Damage

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Out 28 March 2025

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London glam punks The DeRellas dig deep into the darker corners of their rock’n’roll bunker to ship their new album, Belief Me This Is Going To Damage. As a group of songs that’s infused with the spirit of the Heartbreakers and Useless Boys, riddled with a foreboding perspective to life and carried out with an actual ardour for the musical legacy that it upholds, that is most positively an album that the world wants proper now.

One of many nice issues about music is that it has no limitations or boundaries, and the musical heritage that informs and influences a lot of what we hear as we speak can attain out to the touch all elements of the globe. Little doubt due to this fact that the spirit fostered from inside the Decrease East Aspect of Manhattan in addition to the broader American punk panorama has definitely penetrated the sonic waves of the internal London suburbs within the type of The DeRellas who continuously thrill us with their very personal incendiary model of sleazy glam-punk infused rock’n’roll.

It’s now three years since The DeRellas final album One thing’s Acquired To Give which stirred the soul with it swagger, snarl and primal spirit, however now they lastly deliver us their new providing, Belief Me This Is Going To Damage. With the present line-up of Timmy DeRella on vocals and bass, Luca Comencini on lead guitar, Jez Miller on guitar and Steve Grainger on drums, it’s apparent that their penchant for 70s fashion glam punk which has at all times been deeply immersed inside their grooves could be very a lot alive and kicking tougher than ever earlier than.

As a group of songs which could be very a lot influenced by the world of movies, it’s an album whose inspiration is drawn from someplace between the surrealist and experimental visible landscapes of David Lynch and the flowery and dysfunctional world of The Rocky Horror Present with an entire load of grunge and dirt thrown into the combo. If bands just like the Useless Boys, Heartbreakers, MC5 and the Stooges rattle your cage, you then are actually in the precise place on the proper time, however very a lot at your personal peril. While the Useless Boys have been after your youngsters, it sounds very very like The DeRellas are after your soul and able to set it on fireplace, so tread very rigorously as you enterprise into this excessive powered, octane fuelled rock’n’roll wonderland.

The album explodes into life with Simply As a result of I Smile, It Doesn’t Imply I Like You as incendiary guitars, chugging rhythms and vibrant vitality eat the audio system. In the meantime Timmy’s gritty and guttural vocals, that are delivered like a sonic mix of Alice Cooper, Stiv Bators and Billy Hopeless, ship a really stark and cynical warning to us all in regards to the fakery that exists on the planet as we speak. It’s a monster of a gap which very a lot units the tone for all that’s to observe. This Is Going To Damage additionally hits laborious on the accelerator with its uncooked and highly effective guitars wrestling with sturdy melodic interplays because the narrative delves into the world of grief and numbness by loss with all of the chaotic splendour of the Useless Boys.

Loveless Landslide Of Love is a track impressed by David Lynch’s movie Blue Velvet, exploring the darkness inside the human psyche which is so typically riddled with corruption and deception, as its ragged stomp and jarring guitars collide effortlessly into anthemic refrain strains. Faux It Til You Make It follows an analogous path with a go for broke way of living by strains like “we’ve received nowhere to go, we must be seen” that are screamed out with an actual sense of indignant dedication.

The heavy-laden riffs and thunderous rhythms of Evening Time will get you first pumping the air earlier than you even understand it because it’s Iggy fashion swagger envelops your soul in a wonderful cacophony of noise. A Shot Of Emotions merely roars with a sound which is heavy, hard-hitting, quick and direct, with a rampaging spirit extra akin to latter day Ramones, while If Your World Falls Aside explores a world of jealousy and paranoia with snarling vocals which bristle with depth.

Empire Vultures plunders Manics fashion melodies because it takes a swipe at Stateside political posturing earlier than the relentless seek for satisfaction is challenged by the hard-edged rhythms and pummelling bass strains of We Ain’t Glad which crashes and burns with the spirit of the Dolls and the Heartbreakers coursing by its veins.

Simply to show that The DeRellas have a way of humour and don’t take themselves too critically, Contact-a Contact-a Contact-a Contact Me follows as a tongue-in cheek cowl of the track from Rocky Horror, that includes a number of the Kickstarter backers who helped fund the recording of the album on backing vocals. However you definitely gained’t have heard it carried out as heavy as this earlier than! Cease Residing In My Mind closes the album with a searing mass of unbridled rock’n’roll vitality and gritty vocals that are riddled with an actual sense of torment.

Because the world continues to pay tribute to David Johansen, following the latest loss of life of the final man standing from the New York Dolls, it’s so gratifying that we nonetheless have bands like The DeRellas carrying the rock’n’roll torch so brightly into the longer term as they proceed to ship an explosive cocktail of unbridled noise and vitality that stirs the soul and raises the roof. Belief Me This Is Going To Damage is an album that does simply that and an entire load extra in addition to with its powerhouse rhythms, snarling vocal assault and swaggering perspective.

And you’ve got a possibility to listen to this effective model of sleazy glam-punk infused rock’n’roll when The DeRellas play a launch gig for the album on the Water Rats in Kings Cross, London on Thursday, tenth April, alongside mates The Phobics and Glitter Kick. This can be adopted by dates throughout the UK and Europe, together with an look at Rise up Competition in August, so watch this area!

You should purchase tickets for the London gig right here.

You may pre-order the album right here.

You could find The DeRellas right here on Fb, X (Twitter), Instagram, Bandcamp or their web site.

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All phrases by Ian Corbridge. You could find extra of his writing at his creator profile right here.