HATE GALLERY To Release 'Dead Celebrities' EP Next Month

HATE GALLERY, the Finnish/British/Swedish rock band featuring Janne Jarvis and Rille Lundell from WARRIOR SOUL, will release a new six-track EP, "Dead Celebrities", on November 23.

The title track is a modern day fairytale about a "fictional" amoral British celebrity who epitomizes the cult of celebrity and who earns the disgust of a nation and its media yet is considered a saint at the time of her untimely death.

"We're not pulling any punches with the title track and it's pretty easy to figure out who and what it's about," says Jarvis.

"We're sick of the cult of celebrity and appalled at the media saturation and Mooney-esque brainwashing that goes with it. Live like a pig, die like a saint?"

As well as celebrity culture, other tracks such as "Liberation" deal with the slow but steady destruction of freedom in modern society.

"The two subjects are closer together than you would think," continues Jarvis.
"We obsess over and covet the banal, tedious excesses presented to us by the tabloids and choose to ignore what's really going on. The two are inextricably linked."

"Dead Celebrities" is a much needed wake up call and a celebration of telling the establishment to fuck off.

"They make us look the other way," says Jarvis. "Hopefully this is like pre-revolutionary France. It's only a matter of time before they drag them out of their houses and hang them in the streets. I won't be doing the hanging myself. I'll be watching it all on TV. That's what it's all about, right?

"Dead Celebrities" is that rare commodity: A truly modern rock record.
It's a collision of distorted bass lines and razor sharp guitars underpinning songs for the disaffected masses of the 21st Century.

"Dead Celebrities" was recorded in Stockholm and was produced by bassist/vocalist Janne Jarvis and mixed by Jarvis and Chris Rose, collectively known as Binary Audio, as a continuation of their latest collaboration on the latest WARRIOR SOUL album — of which half of HATE GALLERY are members.

"It's passionate and irrelevant, particularly in a time when there aren't any great rock bands left," says Jarvis. "Rock'n' Roll is meant to be irreverent and visceral. In the times we live in, that's definitely good for the soul. If you've still got one."

As single "Dead Celebrity (Queen of the Damned)" will be available as a free download on Monday, October 26 exclusively from this location.

HATE GALLERY will release its second album, "Viva La Resistance!", in Febuary 2010.

For more information, visit www.myspace.com/hategallery.