Heroes and Monsters unveil video for new single “Angels Never Sleep”
Heroes and Monsters unveil video for new single “Angels Never Sleep”
Heroes and Monsters consisting of Todd Kerns (Slash feat. Myles Kennedy & The Conspirators, Toque, Bruce Kulick Band) on lead vocals and bass, Stef Burns (ex-Y&T) on guitar and Will Hunt (Evanescence) on drums have unveiled a video for their new single “Angels Never Sleep” from their debut album, which was just recently released via Frontiers Music Srl on January 20, 2023.
Heroes and Monsters‘ “Angels Never Sleep” video:
Track List for Heroes and Monsters:
01. Locked And Loaded
02. Raw Power
03. Let’s Ride It
04. Angels Never Sleep
05. I Knew You Were The Devil
06. Break Me (I’m Yours)
07. Blame
08. Don’t Tell Me I’m Wrong
09. Set Me Free
10. And You’ll Remain
Kerns was interviewed by Jeff Gaudiosi for Misplaced Straws back in early January 2023. Gaudiosi mentioned that Heroes and Monsters‘ debut album was a concise 10-song, 40-minute record to which Kerns replied:
“I think it’s interesting that you say that because I really do feel like it’s quite diverse in its own way. I feel like if we had sort of carved it down to be 10 songs that kind of sound in a similar vein, where you basically have a record of 10 songs that are just 10 different versions of the same kind of song. I don’t think that’s quite as interesting as having it sort of bob and weave in and out of a couple of different areas. But I think that that’s part of the fun of sort of arranging a record. The idea of a shorter record has become sort of an ongoing conversation even with the last Slash record we did was 10 songs. We started to kind of think about the records that we came up on.
Back in the vinyl days was the idea, some of the Van Halen records had eight songs, 10 songs. How can you have filler on a record that’s just that brief? I just felt like less was more. I think that we kind of have leaned into that. We’d written a bunch of other songs and not so much didn’t make the cut but we just kind of felt like, “Let’s just make a more succinct record”. As you mentioned it’s kind of like, I don’t know if you remember, but I remember in the 90s and early 2000s when people really liked to lean into the amount of music you could put on a compact disc became kind of like, “We’re going to do 17 songs”, and most people kind of were familiar with the first half of the album and then kind of went they just gave up or whatever. To me, it’s kind of more like the records I grew up on Destroyer or, Led Zeppelin 2, it’s like those were brief records and every single song is as important as the one before and the one after it. I think that that’s kind of what we tried to attempt to do with this record. So hopefully it kind of comes across.”
You can read other excerpts from the interview with Todd Kerns via Misplaced Straws‘ website and/or listen to the interview below: