The other day I visited the Easter Island in the Pacific Ocean. The great statues were there, like they’ve been for the last thousand years, hiding their secrets, revealing nothing. But suddenly, as we were exploring the area, a strong sound, low and dull, startled us, and it seemed to emerge from the ground beneath the old statues. Was this finally a clue to the mysteries of the Easter Island?

The sound gained in strength, echoing across the hills, and we crouched in awe but with the curiosity lurching beneath. The sound shaped itself into a voice, and the voice said: “Let there be rock!”

Maybe a little boring message after all this time, since the statues are made of that, rock. But there were a few people among us that interpreted the words in their own way: the members of Badmouth. Chris LeMon grabbed hos big axe for a Bass, Mike Hill and Randy Joy armed their guitars, in a frenzy Vinnie Sharpe started hitting the rocks with his drum sticks and Tom Pearson let out a wild cry that boomed within our heads for hours afterwards: “Yeah, we will rock the world!!!”

Today Badmouth are missionairies for rock music and are eagerly delivering their message wherever they go. They are right now finishing their second full length album, an album that is rumoured to penetrate the toughest anti-rock walls mankind has seen so far.

If you’d like to remain sane, continue to live in peace and feel it’s uncomfortable to be in an area where the ground will shake for two days, then you should definitely avoid Stockholm between the 30th of April and the 1st of May.

Why? Because Stockholm Rock Out, a new big rock festival will take place in Stockholm, containing some of the best rock that’s ever been squeezed out of a Marshall stack. Badmouth, Slaughter, Kix, Keel, Great White, Steelheart, Bullet Boys and many other bands plus fans from all over the world will gather and join in Badmouths mission. The high priest of the event is Chris LeMon from Badmouth.

Well, let’s start ahead with a couple of tracks from Badmouth’s last album:

Pedal to the Metal
Cocaine Girl

Listen more to Badmouth on their Myspace page and follow the band on their site.

Happy easter! (well at least within a day or two)