FULL DEVIL JACKET Streaming New Song “The Moment”

Full Devil Jacket will release Valley Of Bones on March 31st via eOne Music, their first full length in over a decade. Produced by Justin Rimer (12 Stones), it’s a victorious and impossible to ignore sophomore slab, simultaneously resurrecting and updating the band’s hard rock sound. Longtime fans will recognize plenty of signature elements, but this is the Full Devil Jacket of old on steroids.

The band are streaming the new song, “The Moment”. “”The Moment” was written on my acoustic guitar in Palestine, TX.” says vocalist Josh Brown. “Lyrically this song deals with some of my darkest moments of self-doubt.  As the song moves, the lyrics begin to reveal individual purpose and hope.”

The band recently debuted a music video for their first single and title track from Valley Of Bones.

“We cut all the footage for “Valley Of Bones” in one day in a little town on the outskirts of our hometown of Jackson, TN. The video director Rob Nielson at Wired Films did a great job of putting the images together. He combined my artwork with live footage. He did a fantastic job,” says vocalist Josh Brown.

When asked what went into the new effort, Josh Brown offers, “When we write music, we only write it if it’s real. I only sing it if I believe in it. II only write it if I’ve experienced it. When I listen to some rock n’ roll music today, I hear the same important sounding words as the bands I grew up listening to, but I don’t hear any conviction. Everything I write about, I’ve lived.”

Brown’s heroin overdose ended the Full Devil Jacket fans had come to know and love through hit singles like “Where Did You Go?” and “Now You Know” in 2002. FDJ was first discovered by producer Malcolm Springer (Matchbox 20, Collective Soul) then signed to Island/Def Jam under the watchful eye of Tom Zutaut, the A&R legend best known for his work with Motley Crue and signing Guns N’ Roses to Geffen.

Brown returned refreshed, reinvigorated and renewed as singer/songwriter for Day Of Fire, touring and playing shows with Sevendust, Papa Roach, Saving Able, Cold, Nonpoint as well as co-writing (and touring) with Daughtry. The band’s debut album was nominated for a Grammy and won Album Of The Year at the GMA Dove Awards in 2005, where the group was also nominated for New Artist Of The Year and Rock Song Of The Year. But after three successful records, Day Of Fire went on indefinite hiatus in 2010.

The gritty sludge of Down is a great reference point for Valley Of Bones, as well as the dark melody of the mighty Alice In Chains and modern rock accessibility of Stone Sour. There’s even some old school, throbbing hard rock grit and grime, particularly in songs like “Picturebox Voodoo,” a scathing indictment of the mainstream media and a pop culture that obscures designs toward the apocalypse. Full Devil Jacket is a band that had the world at their fingertips, lost it all, and now rises again.

“If I can share with people my struggle and my mistakes and tell them there is hope,” says Brown, “even when we stumble, we rise again. That’s what it’s all about.”

Tracklisting:

“Killers”
“Valley Of Bones”
“7X Down”
“The Moment”
“We Got The Love”
“What If I Say”
“Blood Of The Innocent”
“Picturebox Voodoo”
“Paper Crown”
“August”

Album teaser:

Tour dates:

March
17 – Clarksville, TN – The Warehouse
19 – Baltimore, MD – Fish Head Cantina
20 – Poughkeepsie, NY – The Chance
21 – Sayreville, NJ – Starland Ballroom
22 – Beckley, WV – Muncheez
24 – Pittsburgh, PA – Altar Bar
25 – Kent, OH – The Outpost
26 – Fredericksburg, VA – Hard Times
27 – Lancaster, OH – Mickey’s Bar
28 – Flint, MI – The Machine Shop
29 – Racine, WI – Route 20
30 – Minneapolis, MN – Fine Line Music

April
1 – Laporte, IN – Johnny’s Roadhouse
2 – St. Louis, MO – The Mad Magician
3 – Dallas, TX – Trees